Tears, trauma and a million-dollar necklace as defiant Kim Kardashian faces Paris robbery suspects
PARIS — Defiant in diamonds, Kim Kardashian appeared in a Paris courtroom Tuesday to testify in the trial over the 2016 armed robbery that upended her life. The reality star and business mogul gave emotional, at times harrowing, testimony about the night masked men tied her up at gunpoint and stole more than $6 million in jewelry.
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$100M in gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds stolen in largest U.S. jewelry heist
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CBS News
34 minutes ago
- CBS News
7 Southern California men charged with "largest jewelry heist in U.S. history" for Brinks truck robbery
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