Kim Kardashian has advised a court docket she feared she could be raped and killed throughout an armed theft in Paris practically 10 years in the past.
The 44-year-old was tearful as she advised the decide: “I was certain he was going to rape me.”
“I absolutely did think I was going to die,” she added.
“I said a prayer for my family, and for my sister who would walk in [and find me] and that they would have an OK life after what they saw.”
Kardashian advised the court docket how one of many robbers pulled her throughout the mattress exposing her bare physique underneath her lodge gown as he tied her up.
The lads are accused of robbing her at gunpoint in a lodge in October 2016.
Kardashian arrived at court docket to confront the alleged robbers earlier within the day.
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Kim Kardashian waves as she arrives at court docket. Pic: AP
Carrying a black skirt swimsuit, sun shades, and along with her hair pulled again right into a chignon, Kardashian walked up the steps accompanied by her mom Kris and a big entourage.
She started by telling the court docket of her love for Paris, calling it a “magical place,” earlier than turning into tearful when describing the theft, and speaking of her “confusion” when two males entered her room dressed as cops, accompanied by the handcuffed concierge.
“I had fallen asleep naked with a robe on, I was flustered,” she advised the court docket.
‘From fatherly to aggressive’
Describing the person who tied her up, who she says was “smaller and stockier” than the second man with the gun, Kardashian stated: “I feel like because the guy who tied me up could see how frantic I was, at that moment he felt like a father… It felt like he wanted me to know that I’d be OK if I just shut up.”
She tells the court docket: “I kept telling them I have babies and I need to get home to my babies.”
However, after the lads started arguing in French, the beforehand “fatherly” man went from saying she’d be OK, “to aggressively grabbing my naked body”.
Requested by the decide if she was hit at any level, Kardashian stated: “No, I was not hit. I was picked up and dragged and dropped on the hard floor, but I was not hit.” She later confirms she was dragged by her arms, with each her ankles and wrists certain collectively, and with a gun held in the direction of her neck.
Police say the lads escaped on bicycles, with round $9m of jewelry, together with a $4m engagement ring from Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West. A lot of the jewelry was by no means recovered.
‘A sound I had by no means heard – terror’
Earlier on Tuesday, in Paris’s central legal court docket, Kardashian’s stylist Simone Harouche described the second she was woken by the US star’s screams of terror and feared she had been “raped or violated”.
Ms Harouche, 45, who says she has labored for Kardashian for a few years and has been buddies along with her since she was 12, advised the court docket she was woken by “a sound I had never heard from Kim… It was terror”.
Sleeping in a separate residence, on the following ground down from Kardashian’s, she went on: “What I heard specifically was [Kim saying], ‘I have babies and I need to live – that is what she kept saying… Take everything. I need to live'”.
She advised the decide: “When I realised something terrible was going on upstairs and I realised it was not friends [in Kim’s room], I started looking for my telephone and I started looking for something to help save mine and Kim’s life.”
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Simone Harouche pictured final yr. Pic: Virisa Yong/BFA.com/Shutterstock
She went on to lock herself in her rest room and conceal in her bathe, the place she referred to as Kardashian’s sister Kourtney and texted her safety guard, Pascal Duvier, telling them, “Something is very wrong… Kim is upstairs with men and we need help.”
She says minutes later, Kardashian “hopped” into her room, explaining: “To see my friend with her feet taped and a very light robe with nothing under, and all messed up and pulled, I thought she could have been raped or very violated.”
She stated she eliminated the tape from Kardashian’s ft, and her buddy was “beside herself”, including, “I’ve never seen her like that before. She was screaming, ‘We need to get out, what do we do if they come back? We need to jump from the first floor, we need to get out'”.
Later, when questioned by the lawyer of one of many defendants on why she didn’t come out of the lavatory, she stated: “I’m the kind of person to hide, [Kardashian’s] the kind of person to take care of other people.”
‘Simply because a girl wears jewelry, does not make her a goal’
When requested by the decide whether or not she or Kardashian had believed on the time that carrying and sharing photographs of such costly jewelry could be a danger, Ms Harouche says: “Just because a woman wears jewellery doesn’t make her a target. That’s like saying because a woman wears a short skirt she deserves to be raped”.
She went on to say: “I think that that moment changed [Kardashian’s] life forever… In terms of security, she doesn’t go alone to places anymore.”
Asking for ‘forgiveness’
On the finish of her time within the witness stand, the decide tried to play a video message from one of many defendants, Yunice Abbas.
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Kardashian on the Siran Presentation on the day of the theft. Pic: Matteo Prandoni/BFA/Shutterstock
Mr Abbas, who has admitted his half within the heist, revealed a ebook in 2021, titled “I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian”. A court docket has since dominated he won’t profit financially from it.
A tech situation meant the message wouldn’t play, so as a substitute, the decide learn out the assertion from Mr Abbas, asking for “forgiveness” for his actions. When requested by the decide if she had a response to the apology, Ms Harouche answered, “No”.
The trial, which is being held in entrance of three judges and 6 jury members, is because of conclude on the finish of this week.
