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From Kristen Stewart’s portrayal of Diana to the hugely anticipated return of a fan-favourite TV show, the London Film Festival is back as cinemas are filling up once again.

Hot on the heels of the release of the latest James Bond film No Time To Die, which has smashed box office records, the prestigious film festival returns with physical, in-person premieres and red carpets, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced last year’s event online.

After months of cinemas being closed, Tricia Tuttle, director of BFI Festivals, which organises the flagship event, says it is an exciting time for the industry.

Cast member Daniel Craig poses during the world premiere of the new James Bond film "No Time To Die" at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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No Time To Die, which premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September, has broken box office records

“Bond has just come out and at the festival we’re going to be 100% capacity – with COVID safety protocols, of course,” she tells Sky News. “Audiences have shown willingness to go back to theatre and people are interested in these big, large-scale live events again.

“There is something incredible that happens when you sit in a dark, packed cinema. It really transforms the work and I can’t wait for our audience at the festival to have that experience this year.”

While the industry continues to find its feet with new filming protocols, the festival promises to wow film lovers with its line-up of more than 150 movies, 21 of which will be world premieres – as well as the return of a huge TV show.

Sky News has collated a list of things to watch out for during the festival, which starts on Wednesday.

British film fans will get their first glimpse of Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess Of Wales in Spencer

Kristen Stewart is the latest actress to take on the role of Diana, Princess Of Wales. Pic: Topic Studios
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Kristen Stewart is the latest actress to take on the role of Diana, Princess Of Wales. Pic: Topic Studios

Arguably one of the most anticipated films of the year, Spencer will get its British unveiling at the festival.

The latest depiction of the people’s princess has been made by Chilean director Pablo Larrain and is set at the Sandringham Estate over the course of a Christmas weekend in the early 90s.

It will look at what could have happened over those days, as her marriage to Prince Charles stalled – but she was still required to be involved with the Royal Family.

It got rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival, with Kristen Stewart in particular winning praise.

It screens on the 7, 8 and 17 October at the Royal Festival Hall.

King Richard – the new Will Smith drama about the Williams tennis sisters

Will Smith leads in King Richard. Pic: Warner Bros
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Will Smith leads in King Richard. Pic: Warner Bros

It got its world premiere at Telluride festival in the US last week, but European film buffs will get their first look at the latest Will Smith film.

King Richard is based on the true story of the Williams sisters‘ rise to stardom, told from the perspective of their father Richard.

It’s already got “Oscars buzz” (read: critics reckon Smith might get a look in at the Oscars for it) and those who have already seen it reckon it’s a good film.

It screens at the Royal Festival Hall on 15 and 16 October.

Wes Anderson’s new film – The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Benicio and Alexandre Desplat pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, July 12, 2021. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
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Wes Anderson (left) and some of the cast of The French Dispatch. Pic: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

The film world absolutely loves a Wes Anderson film – which are known for being colourful, quirky and distinct.

His latest effort, The French Dispatch, is no different, having been described as a “love letter to journalists” (Thanks, Wes – we love you too), it stars one of the busiest men in Hollywood at the moment, Timothee Chalamet, as well as ensemble cast featuring comedian Bill Murray, Doctor Strange star Tilda Swinton, and Loki actor Owen Wilson.

It follows the the French foreign bureau of a fictional Kansas newspaper as it creates its final issue.

As you would expect, it’s already had plenty of praise heaped on it since it had its Cannes premiere, so expect screenings to be pretty busy.

It screens at the Royal Festival Hall on the 10, 11 and 13 of October.

Starry Shakespeare is closing the festival

The Tragedy Of Macbeth will close the festival. Pic: Apple TV+
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The Tragedy Of Macbeth will close the festival. Pic: Apple TV+

The Tragedy of Macbeth, a new version of the classic Shakespeare play, will close the festival on 17 October.

We’ve seen a lot of big screen Shakespeare adaptations throughout the years, with this latest one starring two Oscar-winning actors – Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand – in the lead roles.

It’s in black and white, and has an exciting, ethnically diverse cast, including the likes of In The Heights star Corey Hawkins, Irish acting royalty Brendan Gleeson and the rough-voiced northern Game Of Thrones actor Ralph Ineson.

Joel Coen (one of the Coen Brothers – Hollywood’s power-siblings) is in the directing chair for this one, and reviews are yet to come out, because it doesn’t get a screening until later in October at the New York Film Festival.

One fans have been waiting for – season three of Succession

David Rasche in Succession season two. Pic: HBO
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David Rasche in Succession season two. Pic: HBO

But hold on – this is a film festival?

Yes, it is, but with the line between film and TV blurring every year, it feels right to include the blockbusting show at the festival.

The first two episodes of the third season of Peep Show writer Jesse Armstrong’s comedy-drama will screen at the event before it hits Sky later in the year.

Two noteworthy Westerns

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A new Idris Elba western will open the festival

This year’s festival will open with the world premiere of The Harder They Fall, inspired by the real African-American cowboys whose stories are rarely told.

It’s a first feature from director Jeymes Samuel but the experienced cast includes Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors and Delroy Lindo.

Later in the festival The Power of the Dog, from director Jane Campion (the first and only female director to ever win Canne’s Palme d’Or for The Piano back in 1993 – you’re welcome festival trivia fans!), will tell the story of two rich brothers running a ranch on the edge of a frontier town.

The film premiered to very favourable reviews in Venice last week, with Benedict Cumberbatch being tipped for the awards race for his performance in the drama, which also stars Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.

Directorial debuts

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Olivia Colman will be featuring in The Lost Daughter To London. Pic: Jennifer Bloc/Geisler-Fotopress/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

First timers are certainly welcome at LFF with one of the prizes going to the most original and imaginative debut, but there are two we wanted to highlight.

Maggie Gyllenhaal will bring her adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter to London, starring Olivia Colman as a woman who while on holiday becomes obsessed with another woman and her daughter. The supporting cast includes Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

Elsewhere Sadie Frost is turning her hand to documentary with Quant about the fashion designer Mary Quant.

She told Sky News she’s thrilled her film’s been included as it’s been a massive undertaking: “I got an opportunity to direct and even though I’ve done short films before I’ve never actually directed a feature-length documentary and the responsibility of that is huge, but I threw myself in to it and I’ve gone back and done a masters in film studies and a directing course at Raindance.”

Family fun from a British studio for a British festival

Ron's Gone Wrong is the first film from British studio Locksmith. Pic: Locksmith
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Ron’s Gone Wrong is the first film from British studio Locksmith. Pic: Locksmith

Ron’s Gone Wrong is the first film from British animation studio Locksmith and explores what happens when Artificial Intelligence has a mind of its own.

It’s directed by Jean-Philippe Vine and Sarah Smith who told Sky News how exciting it was to be included on this year’s line-up: “We were delighted because to have the opportunity to have a big UK event, it’s a UK studio and we’re super proud of that, and the London Film Festival is unbelievably vibrant – who could not be proud of this country in terms of films when you see the London Film Festival”.

Watching films in augmented reality

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As if the mere idea of watching a film in a cinema with other people isn’t exciting enough after the last 18 months, there’s also plenty on offer for those wanting a new way to experience storytelling.

This year’s expanded programme at LFF has, well, expanded – the idea is to showcase different mediums so expect Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, immersive audio and more as the festival looks to highlight work that doesn’t come under the traditional ‘film’ heading.

The London Film Festival becomes less London-centric!

It might be called the London Film Festival but that doesn’t mean you have to be in the capital to get involved.

After last year’s event was forced to be virtual, organisers were pleased with how going online increased accessibility and as well as a virtual offering this year, partner cinemas across the UK will also show a selection of festival films.

The BFI London Film Festival runs from 6 to 17 October

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Counter-terror police investigating second Kneecap video

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Counter-terror police are “assessing” a second video of a Kneecap performance – after it allegedly saw the rap trio calling for the death of Conservative MPs.

The footage is believed to have been taken during one of the Northern Irish band’s concerts in November 2023.

One member of the group is alleged to have said: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”

On Wednesday the Metropolitan Police revealed its counter-terror unit was investigating another clip of a Kneecap performance over claims it showed one member shouting: “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah”.

That video was from a Kneecap gig at London’s Kentish Town Forum last November.

Hamas and Hezbollah are both proscribed as terrorist groups in the UK. Under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000, it is an offence to express “an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation”.

Commenting on the second clip, a Met Police spokesman said on Sunday: “We were made aware of a video on April 22, believed to be from an event in November 2024, and it has been referred to the counter-terrorism internet referral unit for assessment and to determine whether any further police investigation may be required.

“We have also been made aware of another video believed to be from an event in November 2023.”

He added that the internet referral unit is “assessing” both clips to “determine whether further police investigation is required”.

In their statement in response to the previous Met investigation, Kneecap described it as a “coordinated smear campaign”.

They said they “use their shows to call out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in war crimes” and that their fans “see through the lies”.

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Two British MPs have been murdered in the past 10 years – Labour’s Jo Cox in 2016 and Conservative Sir David Amess in 2021.

A UK government spokesman commented: “We unequivocally condemn threatening remarks made towards any individual.

“Political intimidation and abuse must have no place in our society. We recognise the chilling effect that harassment and intimidation of elected representatives can have on our democracy.

“All reports of intimidation, harassment and threats are taken extremely seriously. We work with the police and Parliament to do everything in our power to crack down on threats to elected officials.”

Sky News has contacted Kneecap’s management for further comment.

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Upskirted, assaulted, accused of faking their music skills: Why female DJs need to be ‘bulletproof’

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To see Koven’s Katie Boyle perform live is beyond impressive. Hailing from Luton, she is one of the most influential women in drum ‘n’ bass today, an artist who pioneered the art of singing live while DJing. 

Although she’s now been doing it for 12 years, her vast knowledge doesn’t silence the trolls online.

“There is a real bad misogyny online against women,” she says of the industry, with plenty of critics refusing to “believe they’re doing what they say they’re doing, and that’s been quite a hard thing to combat”.

Koven is a duo. In the studio, Boyle collaborates with producer Max Rowat; live, she performs and mixes alone. They have just released their second album, Moments In Everglow.

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Koven (L-R): Max Rowat and Katie Boyle

While both Boyle and Rowat are equally involved in making tracks, a minority of very vocal fans still refuse to accept she does anything other than sing.

“I will always be accused of the male half doing more on anything to do with technology,” says Boyle. “The amount of comments [I get] to say, ‘she didn’t make this’. No explanation as to why they think that it is, just purely because [I’m] a woman, which is just mad.”

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Koven’s Katie Boyle says she has had some ‘awful incidences’

While Boyle loves performing live, there are moments, she admits, where being one of the few women on the scene can feel unsafe.

“I’ve had some awful incidences,” she says. “I had someone run on stage and completely grab me, hand down my top, down my trousers, while I was on the stage, which is crazy because you think that’s happening in front of an audience. I mean, this guy literally had to be plied off me.

“That was when I did think, ‘I need to bring someone with me to most places’. I didn’t feel safe travelling around by myself.”

‘You get trolled for everything’

DJ Paulette. Pic: Paulette
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DJ Paulette. Pic: Paulette

Sadly, Boyle isn’t alone. Over a 30-year career, DJ Paulette has scaled the heights of dance music fame, playing throughout Europe, with a residency back in the day at Manchester’s Hacienda.

“Let’s just say I have two towels on my rider and it’s not just because I sweat a lot,” she jokes, miming a whack for those around her.

“I’ve spent time in DJ booths where I’ve had a skirt on and people have been taking pictures up my skirt. People think upskirting is a joke… and I got fed up with it.” Wearing shorts, she says, she still ended with “people with their hands all over me”. Now, she sticks to trousers. “But we shouldn’t have to alter the way we look for the environment that we work in.”

She admits, in order to stick it out, she’s had to bulletproof herself. “You get trolled for everything, for the way you look – if you put on weight, if you’ve lost weight.”

Not only is the discourse towards female DJs different online, she says, she has also been repeatedly told by those working in the industry that because she’s a woman, she has a sell-by date.

“I went for dinner with three guys… one of them said to me, ‘you know Paulette there is no promoter or organiser who is ever going to employ a black female DJ with grey hair’, and they all laughed.

“That was them saying to me that my career was over, and I was in my 40s. At the time, I felt crushed… I think it really does take women who have a real steel will to make their way through.”

‘I will not stop talking about it’

DJ Jaguar at the International Music Summit in Ibiza. Pic: Ben Levi Suhling
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DJ Jaguar at the International Music Summit in Ibiza. Pic: Ben Levi Suhling

As the great and the good of the dance world gather in Ibiza for the industry’s annual International Music Summit, with dance music more popular than ever there is of course much to party about.

But for BBC Radio 1 broadcaster and DJ Jaguar, one of this year’s summit’s cohosts, some serious conversations also need to be had.

“You can get off the plane and look at the billboards around Ibiza and it’s basically white men – David Guetta, Calvin Harris, and they are incredible artists in their own right – but the women headliners, there’s barely any visibility of them, it’s awful.”

She adds: “I will not stop talking about it because it is the reality.”

Trolling and safety are also big concerns. “You’re in these green rooms, there’s a lot of people there, drinking and doing other things… and I’ve walked into green rooms where I felt incredibly uncomfortable, especially when I was a bit younger. I was on my own, it’s like 2am, and you have to watch yourself.”

Male DJs don’t have the same stories

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She says she has female friends who have had drinks spiked when they were DJing. But her male friends? “They don’t have the same stories to tell me.”

Creamfields, arguably the UK’s biggest dance festival, is emblematic of the gender imbalance. It remains one of the least representative festivals in terms of female artists, with last year’s line-up more than 80% male.

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Laila MacKenzie, founder of Lady Of The House, a community that supports and tries to encourage more women into dance music, says the talent pipeline problem isn’t helped by the current discourse online.

“There is a real damaging factor how people can be really nasty online and really nasty in the media and how that actually may discourage and demotivate women from stepping forward into their talent,” she says.

In reality, for so many women working within dance music, the trolling can be so unpleasant that it’s drowning out the good.

“There is so much positivity and so many lovely and supportive people,” says Boyle. “But unfortunately it feels like the negative and the toxic energy is just louder sometimes.”

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Kim Kardashian’s Paris robbery trial: Everything you need to know

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In October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint – with jewellery worth millions of dollars stolen during the audacious heist in Paris.

It was the biggest robbery of an individual in France for more than 20 years – and made front pages around the world.

Now, almost a decade on, the case is finally coming to court.

Why has it taken so long? Will Kardashian give evidence? And who exactly are the “grandpa robbers” facing trial?

Here’s everything you need to know.

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Kardashian at the Siran Presentation on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

What happened?

Two years after Kardashian and rapper Kanye West tied the knot in an ostentatious week-long celebration spanning Paris and Florence, the Kardashian-West clan were back in the French capital for Paris Fashion Week.

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Her then husband had returned to the US to pick up his Saint Pablo tour – but Kardashian, along with her sister Kourtney and various members of their entourage, remained in Paris, staying in an exclusive set of apartments so discreet they’ve been dubbed the No Address Hotel.

Nestled on Tronchet Street, just a stone’s throw from Place de l’Opéra, and close to the fashionable Avenue Montaigne, the Hotel de Pourtalès is popular with A-list stars staying in the French capital.

A stay in the Sky Penthouse, the suite occupied by Kardashian, will currently set you back about £13,000 a night.

Kardashian was staying at the Hotel de Pourtales
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Kardashian was staying at the Hotel de Pourtales

On the evening of 3 October, after attending a fashion show with her sister, Kardashian remained in the apartment alone while the rest of her convoy – including her bodyguard Pascal Duvier – went out for the night.

At about 2.30am, three armed men wearing ski masks and dressed as police forced their way into the apartment block – and according to investigators, they threatened the concierge at gunpoint.

Two of them are alleged to have forced the concierge to lead them to Kardashian’s suite. He later told police they yelled at him: “Where’s the rapper’s wife?”

Kardashian said she had been “dozing” on her bed when the men then entered her room.

She has said she believes her social media posts provided the alleged robbers with “a window of opportunity”.

“I was Snapchatting that I was home, and that everyone was going out,” she said in the months after the incident.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star vividly described the attack in a police report, as reported in the French weekly paper Le Journal du Dimanche.

“They grabbed me and took me into the hallway. They tied me up with plastic cables and taped my hands, then they put tape over my mouth and my legs.”

She said they pointed a gun at her, asking specifically for her ring and also for money.

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Police guard the entrance to the Hotel de Pourtalès the day after the robbery

Kardashian says they carried her into the bathroom and put her in the bathtub. She said she was wearing only a bathrobe at the time.

She had initially thought the robbers “were terrorists who had come to kidnap me”, according to a French police report taken in New York three months after the robbery.

Kardashian told officers: “I thought I was going to die.”

According to police, the robbers – who left the room after grabbing their haul, escaped on bicycles with items estimated to be worth about $10m (£7.5m), including a $4m (£3m) 18.88-carat diamond engagement ring from West.

After they had left, Kardashian said she escaped her restraints and went to find help. After speaking to detectives, she immediately returned to the US on a private jet and later hired a completely new security team.

Kim Kardashian shows off a ring on Instagram
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Kardashian shows off her $4m ring on Instagram

What was stolen?

As well as her engagement ring, Kardashian said the thieves took her large Louis Vuitton jewellery box, which she said contained “everything I owned”.

In police reports given to the French authorities at about 4.30am on the night of the alleged robbery, Kardashian listed these items as having been stolen:

• Two diamond Cartier bracelets
• A gold and diamond Jacob necklace
• Diamond earrings by Lauren Schwartz
• Yanina earrings
• Three gold Jacob necklaces
• Little bracelets, jewels and rings
• A Lauren Schwartz diamond necklace
• A necklace with six little diamonds
• A necklace with Saint spelt out in diamonds
• A cross-shaped diamond-encrusted Jacob cross
• A yellow gold Rolex watch
• Two yellow gold rings
• An iPhone 6 and a BlackBerry

Police recovered only the diamond-encrusted cross that was dropped by the robbers while leaving.

It’s likely the gold in the haul was melted down and resold, while the diamond engagement ring that is now so associated with the robbery would be far too recognisable to sell on the open market.

Kardashian at the Siran Presentation on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features
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Kardashian at the Siran Presentation on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

What will happen in court?

The hearing will begin at the Court of Appeal of Paris – the largest appeals court in France – on 28 April and is scheduled to last a month.

It will consist of a presiding judge, two professional assessors, and six main jurors.

The hearing involves more than 2,000 documents and there are four civil parties.

Kardashian at the Balenciaga show on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features
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Kardashian at the Balenciaga show on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

Who is being tried?

There were initially 12 defendants in the case, but one person has died and another has a medical condition that prevents their involvement. This means 10 people – nine men and one woman – are standing trial.

Five of them, who were all aged between 60 and 72 at the time of the incident, face armed robbery and kidnapping charges. They are:

• Yunice Abbas
• Aomar Ait Khedache
• Harminv Ait Khedache
• Didier Dubreucq
• Marc-Alexandre Boyer

Abbas, 72, has admitted his participation in the robbery. In 2021, he published a book about the robbery, titled I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian. In 2021, a court ruled he would not benefit financially from the book.

Aomar Ait Khedache, 69, known to French crime reporters as “Old Omar”, has also admitted participating in the heist but denies the prosecution’s accusation that he was the ringleader.

The remaining five defendants are charged with complicity in the heist or the unauthorised possession of a weapon. They are:

• Florus Heroui
• Gary Mader
• Christiane Glotin
• François Delaporte
• Marc Boyer

Among those, Mader was a VIP greeter who worked for the car company Kardashian used in Paris, and Heroui was a bar manager who allegedly passed on information about Kardashian’s movements.

With many of the accused now ageing and with various serious health conditions, and some having spent time in jail following their arrest, all are currently free under judicial supervision.

If found guilty, those accused of the more serious crimes could face 10 years to life imprisonment.

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Kardashian at the Off-White show three days before the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

Will Kardashian give evidence?

Yes.

Lawyer Michael Rhodes said Kardashian has “tremendous appreciation and admiration for the French judicial system” and “wishes for the trial to proceed in an orderly fashion in accordance with French law and with respect for all parties to the case”.

A trainee lawyer herself, Kardashian has become a high-profile criminal justice advocate in the US in recent years.

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(R-L) Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner in the front row three days before the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

Why has it taken so long to come to court?

There was initially a manhunt after the robbery, with French police under pressure to prove that Paris’s security was not in question.

Just the year before in 2015, the capital had been shaken by terrorist attacks by Islamic militants, in which 130 people were killed, including 90 at a music event at the Bataclan theatre.

French police initially arrested 17 people in the Kardashian case in January 2017 – three months after the robbery – assisted by DNA traces found on plastic bands used to tie her wrists. Twelve people were later charged.

It was ordered to be sent to trial in 2021 – at a time when limited court proceedings were happening due to multiple COVID lockdowns, and France was holding its largest ever criminal trial over the November 2015 terror attacks.

Kardashian at the Givenchy show on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features
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Kardashian at the Givenchy show on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

What has Kardashian said about the incident?

Kardashian has described the robbery as a “life-changing” moment. She took three weeks away from filming her reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and took a three-month break from social media.

In a March 2017 episode titled Paris, Kardashian first spoke publicly about her ordeal.

She described first hearing a noise in her apartment, and calling out, thinking it was her sister and assistant: “At that moment when there wasn’t an answer, my heart started to get really tense. Like, you know, your stomach just kind of like, knots up and you’re like, ‘OK, what’s going on?’ I knew something wasn’t quite right.”

She went on: “They asked for money. I said, ‘I don’t have any money’. They dragged me out to the hallway on top of the stairs. That’s when I saw the gun, clear as day. I was looking at the gun, looking down back at the stairs. I was like, I have a split second in my mind to make this quick decision.

“Either they’re going to shoot me in the back or if I make it [down the stairs] and the elevator does not open in time or the stairs are locked, there’s no way out.”

Three months later, she told a Forbes Power Women’s Summit she had changed her approach to posting on social media: “They had followed my moves on social media, and they knew my every move and what I had.”

She added: “It was definitely a huge, huge, huge lesson for me to not show off some of the things that I have. It was a huge lesson to me to not show off where I go.

“It’s just changed my whole life, but I think for the better.”

West and Kardashian at the Off-White show three days before the robbery. Pic: Rex Features
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West and Kardashian at the Off-White show three days before the robbery. Pic: Rex Features

In October 2020, Kardashian told US interviewer David Letterman she feared she would be raped and murdered during the heist, and that her sister had been at the forefront of her mind during the incident.

Speaking on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Kardashian said: “I kept on thinking about Kourtney, I kept on thinking she’s going to come home and I’m going to be dead in the room and she’s going to be traumatised for the rest of her life if she sees me… I thought that was my fate.”

When speaking to French police about the impact the robbery had had on her three months after it, Kardashian said: “I think that my perception of jewellery now is that I am not as attached to it as I used to be. I don’t have the same feeling about it. In fact, I even think that it has become a bit of a burden to have the responsibility of such expensive jewels.

“There is nothing of sentimental value to compare with the act of going home and finding one’s children and one’s family.”

She went on to describe Paris as “not the right place” for her, and didn’t return to the French capital for two years following the robbery.

Kardashian has since said in a 2023 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians that she did not purchase any jewellery in the seven years following the robbery, kept no jewellery at her home and only wore items that are either borrowed or fake.

She said the realisation that material items don’t matter has made her “a completely different person in the best way”.

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