Audrina Patridge is remembering the frightening moment she secured herself in her closet after being targeted by the notorious Bling Ring robbers.
Throughout a current look on the Broad Concepts with Rachel Bilson & & Olivia Allen podcast, The Hills celebrity and The O.C. alum understood they were both amongst the stars that were targeted by a team of 5 Los Angeles teens and 20-somethings, referred to as the “Bling Ring,” that took place a criminal offense spree from 2008 to 2009.
“They took trash bags of stuff,” Patridge stated.“They knew I was at an Oscars party, and they knew that because I tweeted it, but then I had cameras and my cameras are the ones that caught their [Nick Prugo and Rachel Lee] faces and I posted it on my website, and said if anyone knows of these people let me know.”
The truth celebrity included that she obtained “nothing” back that was taken, including her auntie’s vintage Chanel watches and various other priceless treasures, which Bilson included“was so fucked up.”
Yet Patridge bore in mind being frightened once she returned home that evening and understood products of hers were missing out on due to the fact that she had not been certain if there were individuals still inside her home.
“I just got back from Australia,” she remembered. “I co-hosted the VMAs or something out there. So everything was still packed, got home, changed, and then I went to the party and came home and I was like, ‘Am I losing my mind?’ My suitcase is gone, my laptop, everything is off my bed. Like, what is going on?”
She proceeded, “And then I went in my closet and I called my sister and I was like, ‘OK, if I open my jewelry box and stuff is gone, someone is in my house,’ and I opened it, everything was gone. And so that’s when I locked myself in [the closet], ‘cause I didn’t know if they were still in the house. … Afraid to get off the phone so I had my brother call 911 while I was on speaker and then they sent the cops.”
Patridge and Bilson both settled on the “invasiveness” of the burglaries, with the last claiming she ultimately relocated due to the fact that she really felt as well “violated” after“they went into my house five different times.”
The Hills alum included that“she went and stayed with my mom in Orange County for a while. I was like, I don’t wanna be in that house.”
Various other celebrities whose homes were targeted in the Hollywood criminal offense spree consisted of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Flower. The participants of the “Bling Ring”– Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Alexis Neiers, Courtney Ames and Diana Tamayo– swiped about $ 3 million in complete in personal belongings and money.
Lee, called the team’s ringleader, was punished to 4 years in jail yet just offered 16 months, while Neiers was in jail for greater than a month and Prugo offered one year.
The real-life tale additionally came to be the emphasis of a number of films and docuseries, consisting of Life time’s The Bling Ring, the Sofia Coppola-directed movie The Bling Ring, HBO’s The Ringleader: The Situation of the Bling Ring and Netflix’s The Actual Bling Ring: Hollywood Break-in.