Kim Kardashian flashes her new custom diamond necklace on Instagram after ‘vowing not to post her jewels on social media following $10.5m targeted attack in Paris’
- In the new image, Kim was wearing a low-cut grey vest top and the chunky diamond-encrusted chain around her neck as she posed for the camera
- The reality personality, 40, previously reportedly vowed not to post her jewels on social media after she was targeted by robbers in Paris in 2016
- Mother-of-four Kim was held at gunpoint in her hotel room during a heist which saw thieves steal $10.5million worth of jewellery from her
- Alleged mastermind of the heist, Aomar Ait Khedache, said Kim was an ‘easy target’ because she kept divulging details online
- Prior to this, Kim is believed to have said she would stop flaunting her wealth after she was robbed, tied up and dumped in her marble bath tub
Kim Kardashian shared a new image of herself sporting a dazzling custom made diamond necklace on her Instagram page on Tuesday evening.
The post comes after the reality personality, 40, previously reportedly vowed not to post her jewels on social media after she was targeted by robbers in Paris in 2016.
Mother-of-four Kim was held at gunpoint in her hotel room during a heist which saw thieves steal $10.5million worth of jewellery from her.
In the new image, Kim was wearing a low-cut grey vest top and the chunky diamond-encrusted chain around her neck as she posed for the camera.
Wow: Kim Kardashian shared a new image of herself sporting a dazzling custom made diamond necklace on her Instagram page on Tuesday evening
She captioned the photograph: ‘Loving my new custom necklace by @jayfederjewelers [fire emoji]’
She captioned the photograph: ‘Loving my new custom necklace by @jayfederjewelers [fire emoji].’
In September 2020 it was reported in legal documents that the alleged mastermind, Aomar Ait Khedache, said Kim was an ‘easy target’ because she kept divulging details about her possessions and their whereabouts.
Prior to this, Kim is believed to have said she would stop flaunting her wealth after she was robbed, tied up and dumped in her marble bath tub.
She was forced to hand over her 20-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring, worth $4.5million (€4 million/£3.5 million), along with her jewellery box containing gems worth $6.7 million (€6 million/£5.24 million) when five masked men stormed apartment.
The ring – gifted to her by her now-estranged husband Kanye West – was last seen sparkling on Kim’s finger in a Snapchat post earlier that same night.
According to TMZ, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star agreed with critics who said she made herself a robbery target by posting online.
At the time Kim reportedly decided to take a month off work and change the way she displays her fortune.
Sharing the wealth: In September 2020 it was reported in legal documents that the alleged mastermind, Aomar Ait Khedache, said Kim was an ‘easy target’
A source told the publication that after the attack, Kim said: ‘Material things mean nothing. It’s not all about the money. It’s not worth it.
Details of Kim’s slip-ups emerged in legal papers filed in Paris last year, where the reality TV star was attacked during Fashion Week in 2016.
Referring to Kim solely as ‘the rapper’s wife’, Ait Khedache, 64, said the job was an ‘internet giveaway’ thanks to her non-stop postings on sites such as Instagram.
‘The jewels were shown on the internet, explaining that she did not wear fake jewels,’ Ait Khedache is reported as saying in prosecuting papers leaked to Les Echos newspaper in the French capital.
Ait Khedache said ‘the timing of her arrival in France’ was posted, and that ‘you just needed to look at the internet to know everything.’
The career criminal, who has served time for previous robberies, is still awaiting trial for the raid, along with 10 other presumed gang members.
Nicknamed ‘Omar the Elder’, Ait Khedache has confessed to his involvement in the Kardashian attack but denies prosecution claims that he was the ringleader.
The gang posed as police officers before threatening the concierge of a short-term luxury apartment rental building close to the British Embassy known as the Hotel de Pourtalès.
Kardashian had been left alone in the suite while her bodyguard went to a nightclub on the Champs-Elysées with her sisters, Kourtney and Kendall Jenner.
While Kardashian was not seriously hurt, she was said to be ‘badly shaken’ and later said she had developed a ‘phobia’ of going out after the robbery.
On film: The ring – gifted to her by her now-estranged husband Kanye West – was last seen sparkling on Kim’s finger in a Snapchat post earlier that same night (pictured)
Colour close-ups of the gang caught on CCTV later emerged – including one of Ait Khedache wheeling a getaway hire bike away.
His DNA was found on plastic cuffs used to tie the victims including Kardashian up, and it was cross-referenced with samples linked to his earlier crimes.
After being identified, police studied CCTV footage in which Khedache was seen getting out of a car near St Lazare station on the night of the Kardashian job.
It was just around the corner from the crime scene, and the driver was his then 29-year-old son, Harminy Ait Khedache.
Khedache junior, now 33, has now been charged with being the getaway driver of the gang.
Ait Khedache has told police the gang melted down and sold off most of the stolen jewellery, but managed to sell Kardashian’s engagement ring, which has never been recovered.
Kim briefly fell silent on social media after the heist, and stopped posting in real time.
SThe robbery took place in October 2016 at Kardashian’s luxury Hotel de Pourtales apartment (pictured) after she went to the French capital for Paris Fashion Week
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