hollywoodland
Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Sophia Coppola, and the Bling Ring
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In the early 2010s, a group of burglars ransacked Hollywood homes like the city was their personal shopping mall. No celebrity was safe from their sticky fingers: Not Lindsay Lohan, not Orlando Bloom, and especially not Paris Hilton, who perhaps lost the most luxury loot of anyone. The thieves pocketed over $3 million dollars worth of custom couture, cocaine, and cold hard cash before they were caught. And when “The Bling Ring” finally traded their designer digs for orange jumpsuits, the world learned the most shocking aspect of the entire case: They were only teenagers.
Sources
The Bling Ring: How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World by Nancy Jo Sales
Dateline: The Bling Ring (NBC)
Exclusive: Inside Hollywood’s ‘Bling Ring’ (ABC)
Breaking Into Hollywood (Maxim)
‘Bling ring’ confession helped break the case (Los Angeles Times)
Luxury items seized in ‘bling ring’ probe (Los Angeles Times)
Celebrities testify in ‘bling ring’ burglaries (Los Angeles Times)
‘Bling Ring’ cop’s job at risk when LAPD panel considers his case (Los Angeles Times)
Far from Cannes, real ‘Bling Ring’ pieces their lives back together (Los Angeles Times)
What ‘The Bling Ring’ taught Paris Hilton about her own life (Los Angeles Times)
The Bling Ring Burglaries: Megan Fox, Paris Hilton And Other Celebs Who Were Robbed of Stylish Valuables (Huffington Post)
25 Things You Didn’t Know About the Real Bling Ring (Complex)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Victoria Wasylak.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak