Between 2008-2009, a group of seven teenagers from Calabasas, California, burgled a number of celebrity homes – it has been reported that over fifty homes were targeted including that of Adrian Patridge, Rachel Bilson, Orland Bloom and Miranda Kerr and Lindsay Lohan. According to Metro, their first celebrity target was Paris Hilton because they thought she was ‘dumb’ and she had left the key to her front door under the the mat. They reportedly burgled her a total of five times.
It’s said they amassed over $3 million in stolen goods. Nick Prugo said in an interview with ABC that ‘All the targets were girls, all the clothes, purses… whatever, you know. Every girl likes new clothes. Cash is obviously attractive to me, but that's why the targets were chosen, mainly because [of] women wanting women's stuff.’
They targeted their homes by working out when they would be away from their homes and were able to find their addresses using the internet.
In June 2013 a film adaptation, The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola was released starring Emma Watson. Paris Hilton, Kirsten Dunst and Brett Goodkin also starred as themselves.
Now there is speculation that a new Bling Ring has formed after TMZ has reported that the homes of Kevin Hart, Chris Brown, Scott Disick and Blac Chyna have been burgled whilst the owners were out of town.
According to TMZ, the police are worried that the burglars may know their targets as they had focused on taking jewelry and where people had large sums of cash in a safe, they had known where to look.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.