Billionaire entrepreneur and reality TV star Kim Kardashian testified Tuesday in a court filled with Paris courts to trial suspects were accused of robbing her gun, putting her mouth on, tying her hands, stealing millions of dollars of jewelry worth nine years ago.
Kardashian, 44, told the jury that she believes she will be sexually assaulted during the 2016 robbery and that she is sure she will not survive the ordeal.
“I'm sure this is the moment he's going to rape me,” she told the Paris court on Tuesday. “I definitely think I'm going to die.”
Kim Kardashian arrived at the Palace of Justice in Paris, France on May 13, 2025.
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Kim Kardashian recalls incident
Kardashian sometimes burst into tears, saying she was about to go to bed when she heard loud footsteps up the stairs to her hotel room and told the court that she thought at first she thought it was her sister, Kourtney, and a friend who returned from the Paris Fashion Week event in the early hours of October 3.
She recalls calling for whom she was there, and then the masked man enters the room.
“I'm obviously confused. I have to understand what's going on. I'm about to fall asleep, naked,” she told the court.
“Honestly, there are a lot of terrorist attacks in the world, and I think it’s some kind of terrorist attack, and I don’t immediately understand that this is my jewelry.”
She said the suspect, dressed in police, arrived at her hotel and seized the concierge service hostage. According to Kardashian, he was dragged into her room and handcuffed.
An attacker began to signal her diamond ring.
“He said, 'Ring! Ring!' He pointed at his hand,” she recalled.
Kardashian grabbed the phone and called the police, but did not know the French emergency number. She then tried to contact her sister and bodyguards but was stopped by a masked assaulter.
Kim Kardashian arrived at the Palace of Justice in Paris, France on May 13, 2025.
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She testified that the men then threw her on the bed, zipped her hands and held the gun on her head.
“I have babies,” Kardashian said. “I have to bring it home. They can take everything away. I just need to bring it home.”
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At the time, Kardashian said she remembered concerns about something that her sister Kourtney might go home.
“I thought of my sister and thought she would walk in and see me shot and have that memory forever in her,” Kardashian said.
She said the people then dragged her into the bathroom where they pressed her mouth and told her that she would not be hurt as long as she didn't make any noise.
She recalled the proactive handling of the suspects but said they did not hit her.
She told the court: “I wasn’t hit.
“[The gun] Being pointed at me, let me go from room to room, and finally point to my bed. ”
Kardashian was locked in the bathroom when she saw police saying the man robbed her, and the suspect stole more than $6 million in jewelry.
Her testimony marks a long-awaited moment that has attracted nearly a decade of history in the trial and has reinvigorated discussions about the price of fame and the risks of living in the eyes of the public.
One of the most well-known figures on the planet, Kardashian is a billionaire fashion and beauty brand entrepreneur, a reality TV icon, producer and lawyer, with over $350 million on Instagram alone.
But the robbery reveals the lights on the side of the overexposed darkness, and how fame leaves behind high-profile characters, as vulnerable as she survives.
Police believe the suspect looked at Kardashian's social media profile, providing a broader understanding of her actions and used images she shared with Moment Stamps and geotags to track her whereabouts in hopes of following the incident.
Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, joined the serious Paris court. According to the Associated Press, a $1.5 million diamond on her neck was hanging from her neck, according to a press release sent by her team to reporters during the trial.
The court's sketch showed us celebrity Kim Kardashian (R2) in Paris on May 13, 2025, next to the same AOMAR AIT KHEDACHE (R), who testified in the 2016 robbery, which she robbed her millions of dollars of jewelry worth.
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Defendant and consequences
French prosecutors said the 12 suspects, aged 60 to 70, were members of the old-fashioned criminal circle.
Two attackers admitted to being on the scene of the crime, one of who claimed he did not know who the Kardashian happened. Another died before trial and the illness caused the fourth place.
French media have been called “The Grandpa Robbers” criminals “Les Papys Braqueurs”, but Kardashian's lawyers insist that these people are far from the health of older people.
The suspect faces charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and members of criminal gangs, crimes in France, and the possibility of life imprisonment.
After the man left the scene, Kardashian said she wiped the tape and tied her wrist to the bathroom sink to release her hands.
Her ankles are still tied, she jumps downstairs and finds her friend and designer Simone Harouche, who lives in the room below.
Harouche and Kardashian, worried that the robbers would come back, fled to the balcony and hid in the bushes. There, Kardashian called his mother.
Earlier in the trial, Harouche recalled Kardashian screaming upstairs: “'I need life.” She kept saying, “I need life.”
Meanwhile, Harouche locked herself in the bathroom and texted Kardashian's sister and bodyguard, writing: “Something wrong.”
Later, she heard Kardashian struggling on the stairs, her ankles still tied.
“She is next to herself,” Harouche said. “She was just screaming.”
Judge David de Pas asked Harouche if she thought Kardashian had invited the robber, who shared internet images of expensive jewelry on the internet, a question about Harouche.
Kim Kardashian left the court building after a trial of the 2016 robbery, which allowed her to release millions of dollars of jewelry at the muzzle of Paris on May 13, 2025.
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“Just because a woman is wearing jewelry, it doesn't make her a target,” she said. “It's like saying that because a woman is wearing a short skirt, she should be raped.”
Kardashian told the court that her Los Angeles home was considered a parody attack shortly after the robbery in Paris, adding that she could no longer sleep without a guard, with four to six people at any given time.
“I started to get phobia of going out,” Kardashian said. “This experience really changed everything for us.”
Her bodyguard stayed in another hotel during the robbery in Paris.
“We thought it was safe if we were in a hotel, it was safe,” Kardashian explained, adding that Paris had been safe with her before that, and she often walked to the street alone in the early morning to the window shop or stop or stop to buy a single hot chocolate.
“It always feels really safe,” she said. “It's always a magical place.”
Kardashian received an apology letter from one of the suspects and said she was grateful for the gesture.
She concluded: “I do appreciate this letter very much. I forgive you for happening, but it has not changed the fact that my feelings, the trauma and my life has changed forever, but I do appreciate this letter, thank you.”
– Documents with the Associated Press and Reuters
