Paris robbery: ‘I thought I was going to die’ – Kim Kardashian tells trial

• Posted on May 14, 2025May 16, 2025
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Kim Kardashian has told a court she feared she would be raped and killed during an armed robbery in her Paris hotel room in 2016.

The 44-year-old media personality and businesswoman was tearful as she told the judge: “I was certain he [one of the robbers] was going to rape me.”

“I absolutely did think I was going to die,” she added.

“I said a prayer for my family, and for my sister who would walk in [and find me] and that they would have an okay life after what they saw.”

Kardashian faced a group of 10 defendants – dubbed the ‘grandpa robbers’ by French media – who are accused of robbing her at gunpoint in the Hotel de Pourtales in the French capital in October 2016.

She told the court how one of the robbers pulled her across the bed, exposing her naked body under her hotel robe as he tied her up.

She also told the court of her “violation”, explaining she was “grabbed and tied up… dragged from one room to the other”, and calling the whole thing “a violent act”.

Kardashian explained: “Being touched and picked up when you’re naked is very violating”.

Additionally, in a bizarre turn of events in the courtroom, three of the defendants offered messages to Kardashian – two in person and one via a written note. Kardashian had no knowledge of the letter until it was read in court and she tearfully said she forgave one of the robbers.

Earlier, Kardashian, wearing a black skirt suit, sunglasses, and with her hair pulled back into a chignon, walked up the court steps accompanied by her mother Kris and a large entourage.

Giving evidence, she became tearful when describing the robbery, and talking of her “confusion” when two men entered her room dressed as police officers, accompanied by the handcuffed concierge.

“I had fallen asleep naked with a robe on, I was flustered,” Kardashian told the court.