Audrina Patridge is recalling the terrifying moment she locked herself in her closet after being targeted by the infamous Bling Ring burglars.
During a recent appearance on the Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, The Hills star and The O.C. alum realized they were both among the celebrities that were targeted by a group of five Los Angeles teenagers and 20-somethings, dubbed the “Bling Ring,” who went on a crime spree from 2008 to 2009.
“They took trash bags of stuff,” Patridge said. “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 reality star added that she got “nothing” back that was stolen,...
During a recent appearance on the Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, The Hills star and The O.C. alum realized they were both among the celebrities that were targeted by a group of five Los Angeles teenagers and 20-somethings, dubbed the “Bling Ring,” who went on a crime spree from 2008 to 2009.
“They took trash bags of stuff,” Patridge said. “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 reality star added that she got “nothing” back that was stolen,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “The Ringleader: The Case of Bling Ring,” director Erin Lee Carr revisits the infamous group of Calabasas, Calif. teenagers responsible for burglarizing the homes of celebrities including Orlando Bloom and Paris Hilton. But instead of merely rehashing the splashy story, Carr focuses on Rachel Lee, the alleged ringleader of the Bling Ring, who has never spoken to the media about her role in the 2008/2009 crime.
It took the director 12 months to convince Lee to sit in front of a camera and tell her side of the story. Initially, Lee wanted to do a podcast to maintain her anonymity, but Carr said no. The response was understandable given the director’s track record for making docus, not podcasts, about juicy true crimes. Carr’s credits include “Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall,” “I Love You Now Die,” and “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”
Ahead of HBO’s Oct. 1 premiere of “The...
It took the director 12 months to convince Lee to sit in front of a camera and tell her side of the story. Initially, Lee wanted to do a podcast to maintain her anonymity, but Carr said no. The response was understandable given the director’s track record for making docus, not podcasts, about juicy true crimes. Carr’s credits include “Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall,” “I Love You Now Die,” and “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”
Ahead of HBO’s Oct. 1 premiere of “The...
- 10/1/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
The story of Alexis Haines’ entanglement with a circle of Los Angeles-area home invaders has been told multiple times over: In the reporting of Nancy Jo Sales, who profiled her for Vanity Fair in 2010; on her own reality show, “Pretty Wild,” which aired on E! in 2010; and in Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film “The Bling Ring,” based on Sales’ work. Now, Haines (formerly Alexis Neiers), along with former associate Nick Norgo (formerly Nick Prugo), attempts to set the record straight in the Netflix documentary series “The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.”
The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s. It’s not that Haines’ and Norgo’s stories, told with both respective parties’ permission in this doc, don’t have inherent interest: Both of them became entranced by the concept of celebrity and, as...
The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s. It’s not that Haines’ and Norgo’s stories, told with both respective parties’ permission in this doc, don’t have inherent interest: Both of them became entranced by the concept of celebrity and, as...
- 9/19/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Members of the “Bling Ring” — a group of Hollywood strivers who started robbing celebrities in the late 2000s — are out of jail and ready to tell their story in the new trailer for the Netflix docuseries, The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.
The new trailer suggests the three-part series will focus primarily on two members of the Bling Ring, Nick Prugo and Alexis Haines (née Neiers). In one interview clip, Prugo sets the stage for the wild tale: “I’ve always been the type of person to do whatever I...
The new trailer suggests the three-part series will focus primarily on two members of the Bling Ring, Nick Prugo and Alexis Haines (née Neiers). In one interview clip, Prugo sets the stage for the wild tale: “I’ve always been the type of person to do whatever I...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The sight of Paris Hilton's jewelry covering the surface of a plain, wooden kitchen table was staggering. Diamond bracelets. Bangles. Expensive watches. Cocktail rings. Pearls. This was just some of the stuff the LAPD had recovered when they raided the homes of the teens and 20-somethings we'd later come to know as the Bling Ring. It was 2009, and I was a 25-year-old correspondent for a cable TV network, crouched on the ground in front of police headquarters, scribbling notes as Detective Brett Goodkin shared pictures and descriptions of the loot with me and the three or four dozen other journalists assembled.
It wasn't surprising to me when, fewer than five years later, I found myself watching the story unfold again on the big screen in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." The fascination was already at a fever pitch in the fall of 2009. The group was eventually linked to...
It wasn't surprising to me when, fewer than five years later, I found myself watching the story unfold again on the big screen in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." The fascination was already at a fever pitch in the fall of 2009. The group was eventually linked to...
- 8/23/2022
- by Lindsay Miller
- Popsugar.com
The Los Angeles Police Department believes they’ve finally caught the people responsible for a string of burglaries of celebrity homes over the last year — and like that other famous Hollywood “bling ring,” most of the suspects are teenagers. At a news conferences on Tuesday, October 2nd, Capt. Lillian Carranza of the Lapd Commercial Crimes Division announced that Tyress Williams, 19, Jshawne Lamon Daniels, 19, Damaji Corey Hall, 18, and his mother, Ashle Jennifer Hall, 34, have been arrested in connection with a burglary on September 27th at the home of NFL player Robert Woods.
- 10/3/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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