Over the last few years, celebrities have been the target of some scary home invasions, particularly in the Los Angeles area. The stars think they are safe and sound with security measures in place, but the latest crime wave is proving that even sophisticated high-tech equipment isn’t keeping the burglars out.
One possible reason for the recent trend of celebrities being targeted is the fact that many flaunt their homes and luxurious goods on social media. “It seems that the suspects are targeting individuals [with] expensive jewelry, expensive cars and things of that nature,” LAPD Sgt. Hector Olivera told The Los Angeles Times. Kim Kardashian knows that all too well after she was the victim of a jewelry heist at her Paris hotel in 2016 — it was terrifying. “I just knew that was the moment. They’re just totally going to shoot me in the head,” she recalled on a 2017 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. “I just prayed that Kourtney’s going to have a normal life after she sees my dead body on the bed.”
With Selling Sunset‘s Christine Quinn being the latest victim, it’s a reality check that public figures might want to reassess their security and find ways to outwit the criminals, who are clearly profiling and staking out their prey. It’s a scary thing to think about, but nobody wants to experience what these stars have gone through. Find out who in Hollywood has suffered through horrific home invasions.
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David Beckham & Victoria Beckham
Image Credit: Jab/WWD. David Beckham and Victoria Beckham were the victims of a terrifying home invasion that occurred while they were asleep. The couple and their 10-year-old daughter, Harper, were asleep on one of the lower levels of their London home, when a burglar came in through a top floor window, according to a report from The Sun.
The family didn’t know their home had been targeted until the couple’s 17-year-old son Cruz returned from a night out, noticing broken glass and a ransacked bedroom. The Beckhams were “shaken up” by the incident, per The Sun. They reportedly lost thousands of pounds of their belongings.
“Sadly, the Beckhams were the victims of some fairly professional thieves who have been operating in the area,” a source told the outlet. “Fortunately, the criminals only made it as far as one bedroom before they ran off.”
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Kim Kardashian
Image Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig. Kim Kardashian’s robbery at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016 was labeled a publicity stunt by many critics, but it turned out to be a sophisticated crime ring where 12 individuals were charged in the crime. They had planned the attack for over two years and Kardashian changed her entire life after this harrowing night.
She recalled five masked men bursting into her hotel room while she was sleeping. “He grabbed me and pulled me towards him. But I wasn’t wearing anything underneath [my bathrobe],” she told David Letterman on his Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. “So I was like, ‘OK, this is the time, I’m going to get raped. Just deal, like, it’s gonna happen.’ You know, like just prepare yourself.”
Kardashian was fortunately not physically harmed, but the mental trauma had long-lasting effects, including anxiety attacks and PTSD. Police said the robbers plotted the jewelry heist from researching her Snapchat account and examining the expensive pieces they wanted to steal.
She admitted to Ellen DeGeneres that the event changed her life for the better. “I know this sounds crazy, but I know that was meant to happen to me. I am such a different person,” she explained. “Things happen in your life to teach you things,” she said, before detailing that the robbery gave her an entirely new outlook on her lavish life.”
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Sandra Bullock
Image Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images. Sandra Bullock recently recalled her 2014 home invasion on Red Table Talk, and how she is still filled with gratitude that her then-four-year-old son Louis was staying at the nanny’s house.
“It was the one night that our nanny goes, ‘Let me just take him to my apartment which is up the street because you’re gonna be out late,’” Bullock said. “Had he been home, I would’ve run to the closet, and it would have changed our destiny forever.”
Calling it a “violation,” she admitted, “I wasn’t the same after that. I was unraveling. I haven’t been alone since the day it happened.” Like Kim Kardashian, Bullock suffered from PTSD after the event and underwent EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy, to help her heal. She, too, walked away with a lesson, “When I got out of it, I realized I have surrounded myself often with unsafe people and situations and put myself there,” Bullock explained. “I have no one else to blame but myself because that was the most familiar feeling I had.”
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Dorit Kemsley
Image Credit: Jordan Strauss The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley was home alone with her two children, son Jagger, 7, and daughter Phoenix, 5, when intruders broke into her Encino Hills, California mansion in October 2021.
“First of all, I was completely taken off guard,” Kemsley told Extra. “They were surprised to see me at home… When they did, they pushed me to the ground. They said, ‘Who else is in the home?’ ” One of the criminals kept saying, “Just kill her,” according to the reality star. She was just worried about her children, who were asleep in their bedrooms.
“I begged them, I begged for my life, and begged for their life,” she added. “I don’t care about any of it, take it all. You can have it all. Please, I’m a mother of babies. Please, they need me. Please don’t hurt me.”
Kemsley and her children were safe, but the criminals made off with over $1,000,000 of her property, according to NBC News. No arrests have been made so far.
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Christine Quinn
Image Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn is Hollywood’s latest victim of an attempted home invasion. She was sleeping alongside husband Christian Richards, and their son, Christian Georges, when they were awakened by a noise outside. Two armed intruders tried to get inside their estate, but were thwarted by the triple-pane glass on their Hollywood Hills home, according to TMZ.
The security cameras caught images of the two men, who were trying to enter via a window only four feet from the couple’s bedroom. Quinn and her family are safe, and the police are looking for the trespassers.
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Terrence Jenkins
Image Credit: Scott Roth/Invision/AP. Former BET host and actor Terrence Jenkins found himself the victim of a “follow-home” robbery in November 2021. As he and a friend pulled up to his Sherman Oaks, California home, his car was blocked in by an SUV with masked men, who ordered him at gunpoint out of his vehicle.
Jenkins refused to comply and drove off while the criminals shot at his car. He managed to spot a California Highway Patrol car nearby to report the incident. The star was uninjured and the occupants in his home were also safe. “People need to be aware of the surroundings, especially leaving nightclubs, restaurants and what have you,” said LAPD Sgt. Hector Olivera told Fox 11.
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