Kim's heist ordeal

thought I was going to die." That's how Kim Kardashian described the moment masked intruders tied her up, gagged her and held her at gunpoint inside a luxury Paris hotel.

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On the night of 2 October 2016, during Paris Fashion Week, five men disguised as police stormed into her room, making off with an estimated £7.5m worth of jewellery, including a £3m diamond ring gifted by Kim's then-husband Kanye West, and fleeing on bicycles. But what they left behind was far more lasting: fear, trauma and a permanent scar on the life of one of the world's most recognisable women. “It was terrifying and life-changing and I don’t wish that kind