Kim Kardashian thought she “would be dead on the bed, shot dead” when armed robbers , tied her up and stole $9 million of jewelry, the influencer told a French courtroom.
The social media and business mogul was giving evidence at during Paris Fashion Week in 2016, one of the most audacious celebrity heists in the country's history. Now mostly in their 60s and 70s, the suspects have become known in French media as the "grandpa robbers."
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WATCH HEREWith some 500 journalists , Kardashian recounted how she feared she would be raped when two men allegedly entered the luxury residence and tied her up while she was wearing just a bathrobe.
Kardashian said she prayed for her sister Kourtney, fearing that she would return to see a gruesome sight at the hotel, “that I would be dead on the bed, shot dead, and that should have this memory forever.”
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SIGN UP "They threw me on the bed and the smaller one started to tie my hands," said Kardashian, who was dressed in a black suit with a long black skirt, her dark sunglasses seen on the way into court now removed. "I started to freak out," she added, asking a concierge, allegedly detained by the assailants, "what is going to happen to us?"
Kardashian said she told the attackers, "I have babies, I have to go home," to which one of them replied that "he didn’t know" that. "Then they tied me up and I was hysterical. When he was about to tape my mouth, he leaned toward me and said in English 'shh' and 'you’ll be OK.'"
She broke down in tears when read a note from one of the defendants.
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"I want to come to you as a human being, to tell you how much I regret what I did, how emotional I was to see you in tears and I empathized with your suffering and that of your kids, husband and close ones," said Aomar Ait Khedache, who is deaf and mute, in a note read out by the judge.
"Since I found out about your situation, my consciences told me to try to contact you, in the softer and most comforting way," he added. "Of course, we can’t change the past but I hope that this letter will help you get over the trauma you suffered because of me."
Asked in court how she wanted to react, she said she was "obviously very emotional about it" as the experience had chance her life and the lives of her family.
"I do appreciate the letter," Kardashian added. "I forgive you for what had taken place but it doesn’t change the emotions, the feeling and the trauma and the fact that my life has forever changed."
The possibility that she was in the midst of a terrorist attack also crossed her mind, Kardashian said.
When they first entered the room, she said, she thought they were police officers. Paris had been victim of a widespread, coordinated terror attack just months earlier in December 2015 and her first thought was that there had been a repeat, she said.
Earlier Tuesday morning, Kardashian's childhood friend and former stylist Simone Harouche said how the experience had changed both of their lives forever. Kardashian has since significantly upped her security and privacy, she said, while she quit the industry to become an interior designer, and has had therapy for post-traumatic stress.
“I had never seen her like that before,” Harouche told the court.
Khedache also issued a note to Kardashian's friend.
“I won’t ask you to forgive me it would be too easy, things are confused in my mind,” he said. “I can’t find the words. Please know that if there was a hole I would jump in it.”
The trial opened April 28, with 10 suspects variously accused of armed robbery, kidnapping and other criminal charges. Dubbed the “grandpa robbers” by French media because of their ages, the suspects allegedly posed as police officers before they overpowered the concierge, who was forced to act as a translator as they tied Kardashian up in the bedroom of the luxury suite.
Months after the robbery made headlines, Kardashian talked about the incident during a season 13 episode of E!’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
“My door was open like this, and then I saw two guys holding another guy down in police uniforms, but right outside of my bedroom, 5 feet away,” she told her sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian in an emotional conversation.
She said she saw the two men holding down the concierge, who was handcuffed and had a key to her room. “What I’ve heard from talking to him afterward is, they said, you know, ‘Where’s the rapper’s wife? Let us up to her room!’ in French,” she said, referring to her then-husband, the artist Ye, formerly Kanye West.
The episode which aired in March 2017 .
Ahead of the robbery, Kardashian had posted real-time updates from her hotel suite, showing off a 20-carat diamond ring, gifted to her by Ye and investigators believe the gang followed her online, combing through images, timestamps and geotags before employing old-school criminal methods to conduct the robbery.
Most of the defendants were arrested three months after the robbery as police launched a huge operation that involved piecing together security camera footage and DNA evidence. But the legal process was beset by delays and many of the aging defendants are now suffering from illnesses and one of them has since died. Another is too unwell to stand trial.
Among the defendants at the trial which began last month are Aomar Ait Khedache, 69, known as “Old Omar,” who is accused of being the plot’s mastermind. His son and alleged getaway driver, Harminy, 37, has also been charged along with Didier “Blue Eyes” Dubreucq, 69.
The brother of Kardashian’s driver in Paris, Gary Madar, 35, is accused of providing the alleged gang members with information about her whereabouts, and 78-year-old Christiane Glotin, is accused of being an accomplice in planning the heist.
, perhaps the best-known defendant in the trial who detailed the robbery in his , “I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian,” testified last month. He told the court it was the first time he had truly come to recognize the “trauma” he had caused his victim.
Gabrielle Nolin reported from Paris, and Henry Austin and Alexander Smith reported from London.
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