Kardashian testifies she feared rape and murder during 2016 heist
Kim Kardashian has testified that she feared she would be raped and killed during a 2016 armed robbery in Paris, describing the ordeal in stark, emotional terms.
She arrived on Tuesday at a Paris courthouse to testify against the men accused of robbing her at gunpoint, an event that reshaped her life and redefined celebrity security in the age of social media.

Kardashian said a silent prayer — for her sister, her best friend, her family — as a masked man pulled her toward him in a Paris hotel room. She was wearing only a bathrobe. Her hands were zip-tied. Her mouth was taped. She thought she wouldn’t survive.

Kim Kardashian waves as she arrives to testify regarding a robbery of millions of dollars in jewels from her Paris hotel room in 2016, in Paris, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

“This experience really changed everything for us.”

At the time of the 2016 robbery, she said, her bodyguard was staying in a separate hotel: “We assumed that if we were in a hotel it was safe, it was secure.”

She said Paris had once been a sanctuary, a place where she would walk at 3 or 4am, window shopping, sometimes stopping for hot chocolate.

It “always felt really safe”, she said. “It was always a magical place.”

Kardashian, who is studying to become a lawyer herself, said she was grateful for the opportunity “to tell my truth” in the packed Paris courtroom.

“This is my closure,” she said. “This is me putting this, hopefully, to rest.”

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