…….Tells Attacker She Has Forgiven Him
By Tonia Okereke
Kim Kardashian has told a French court she feared she would be raped and killed during an armed robbery in her Paris hotel room in 2016.
The Skims founder told the judge: “I was certain he [one of the robbers] was going to rape me.”
She added: “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 okay life after what they saw.”
Kim arrived the court in company of her mum/manager, Kris Jenner to face a group of 10 defendants – dubbed the ‘grandpa robbers’ by French media – who are accused of robbing her at gunpoint in the Hotel de Pourtales in the French capital in October 2016.
She further told the court how one of the robbers pulled her across the bed, exposing her naked body under her hotel robe as he tied her up.
She also told the court of her “violation”, explaining she was “grabbed and tied up… dragged from one room to the other”, and calling the whole thing “a violent act”.
Kardashian explained: “Being touched and picked up when you’re naked is very violating.”
Additionally, in a bizarre turn of events in the courtroom, three of the defendants offered messages to Kardashian – two in person and one via a written note. Kardashian didn’t know about the letter until it was read in court and she tearfully said she forgave one of the robbers.
Describing the man who tied her up, who she says was “smaller and stockier” than the second man with the gun, Kardashian said: “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 okay if I just shut up.”
She told the court: “I kept telling them I have babies and I need to get home to my babies.”
But, after the men began arguing in French, the previously “fatherly” man went from saying she’d be okay, “to aggressively grabbing my naked body”.
Asked by the judge if she was hit at any point, Kardashian said: “No, I was not hit. I was picked up and dragged and dropped on the hard floor, but I was not hit.” She later confirmed she was dragged by her arms, with both her ankles and wrists bound together, and with a gun held towards her neck.
Police say the men escaped on bicycles, with around $9m of jewellery, including a $4m engagement ring from Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West. Most of the jewellery was never recovered.
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