The Night Kim Was Bound, Gagged, and Left in the Bathroom
October 3, 2016. Kim Kardashian was alone inside her suite at the No Address Hotel in Paris. Her bodyguard had stepped out with her sisters, and her security vulnerabilities—amplified by her real-time social media posts—were allegedly exploited by masked men posing as police.
Two of the robbers, she later told interviewers, burst into her room with a handcuffed hotel employee who reportedly opened the door for them. She was dragged out of bed, zip-tied, duct-taped, and left alone in the bathroom as they looted over $10 million in jewelry, including her $4 million engagement ring from then-husband Kanye West.
Kardashian told David Letterman during a 2020 interview. “He grabbed me and pulled me toward him, but I wasn’t wearing anything underneath. So I was like, ‘OK, this is the time I’m going to get raped. Just deal, it’s gonna happen. Just prepare yourself.’ So I did… But then he tied me up with handcuffs and zip ties and duct tape.”
What the robbers didn’t know was that they would leave behind more than stolen diamonds—they would leave a trail of clues and public outrage that would fuel a years-long investigation.
“We can confirm that Ms. Kardashian will be testifying in person at the upcoming French criminal trial involving the 2016 incident in which she was bound and robbed at gunpoint by a number of masked assailants,” Kardashian’s lawyer Michael Rhodes said in a statement in a recent statement.
Kardashian, according to her lawyer, has “tremendous appreciation and admiration for the French judicial system”and “wishes for the trial to proceed in an orderly fashion in accordance with French law and with respect for all parties to the case.”
