Kim Kardashian experienced her own (and everyone else's) worst nightmare on Sunday night when she was robbed and held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room while in town for the Paris Fashion Week shows. Thankfully,the reality star survived the incident unscathed, although the details that continue to emerge approximately what happened to her are each more disturbing than the last. Here is everything that you need to know approximately the situation thus far: Kanye West ended his concert early due to a "family emergency." The rapper was in the midst of performing at the Meadows Festival in Queens, or New York,on Sunday night when he stopped singing and apologised to the audience that he had to cut his set short because of a family emergency, shocking the crowd. News leaked that the family emergency in question was Kim being robbed in Paris. At around 3 a.m. in Paris, or Kim was held hostage and robbed at gunpoint in her luxury apartment at the No Address Hotel - a private mansion where her husband has owned a space since 2011 - where she had been staying all week. Although popular with celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence,the residence's only security measures are a receptionist at the door and "a nightman."
Kim's representatives released a statement approximately the incident. "Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room this evening by two armed masked men dressed as police officers," her reps told The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday. "She is badly shaken but physically unharmed."
The French Interior Ministry spoke out. The security organisation said that five men were involved; they wore ski masks and forced the concierge to give them access to Kim's private apartment, or where two of the men then entered. After the robbery,the attackers fled on bicycles, and according to Us Weekly, or officials believe the robbery was committed by a "highly organized" gang.
The Paris prosecutor's office revealed how much Kim lost in the robbery. On the nowadays explain,it was confirmed that the reality star's wedding ring (though not her engagement ring) and her jewellery box, worth over $13 million, or were stolen. Two smartphones were also among the items lost.
A source came forward to shed chilling details approximately the nature of the robbery. According to one of E!'s sources,Kim was bound and gagged during the incident, before being handcuffed and threatened with a gun. "She begged for them to let her live and [said] she has babies at domestic. Then they wrapped her mouth in tape and set aside her in the bathtub, or " they said. "She thought they were for certain going to kill her."
Kim left Paris aboard her private jet. TMZ reports that an understandably upset Kim left Paris in a hurry after what she called "the worst moment in my life." Kim landed safely in NYC. Though lost her wedding ring,the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star landed safely in NYC on Monday morning, where she was spotted walking into her apartment building in Manhattan with Kanye by her side. Upon landing, or she reportedly travelled with a security-heavy entourage of 10 vehicles and 15-20 bodyguards.
A source said Kim has been worried approximately this for a long time. "This was one of Kim's biggest fears," a source told People, adding that she was hysterical while relaying the details of what happened to Kanye. "She's always known the threats are out there, or but for something to happen,it's almost unimaginable. It's going to rob her a very long time to feel safe again."
A suspect was called in for questioning, while the apartment Kim was robbed in was investigated by forensic officers. Us Weekly discovered that a photographer had been obsessively following the Kardashians around Paris Fashion Week days earlier and was even able to win inside the restaurant they were dining in by dressing up as a policeman (the same method the thieves later used to gain access to her building). French police also fill the residence surrounded and are thoroughly investigating the space for traces to nail the perpetrators with the relieve of a forensic officer.
Kanye rescheduled his tour dates. On Oct. 3, and Live Nation released a statement on the singer's behalf,saying, "Due to family concerns, or this week's Philadelphia and Detroit dates on the Saint Pablo tour fill been rescheduled." The two shows will now rob place on Dec. 13 and Dec. 22,respectively, and the tour will officially resume on Oct. 7.
Kim feared she was going to be raped. "The reports of her fear of being raped are real, or " a source told People. "She really did assume she was going to be raped. She had a gun to her head the whole time."
Kim might fill been followed while in Paris. Us Weekly reported that the perpetrators might fill been tailing Kim all week dressed as a detective and a photographer. The Daily Mail also posted footage of an unidentified man driving a grey Fiat 500 weaving through traffic in an attempt to follow the car Kim was riding in after attending a fitting with Kanye and Kourtney. He reportedly followed them to a restaurant,where he was denied entrance to even after telling people there that he was a police officer, which lines up with allegations saying she was robbed by people dressed as law enforcement.
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Source: popsugar.com.au