Kim Kardashian Testifies In Paris Court About Fearing She Would Die During Fashion Week Robbery

Nine years after Kim Kardashian was tied up inside a Paris hotel and robbed of $9 million worth of jewelry, the reality TV star and business mogul gave testimony in the case at the Palais de Justice.

Kardashian, 44, was famously robbed while staying at the Hôtel de Pourtalès for Paris Fashion Week in 2016, and the 10 suspects in the case, now mostly in their 60s and 70s, have been dubbed in the French media as the “grandpa robbers.”

“They threw me on the bed and the smaller one started to tie my hands,” Kardashian testified, adding that when she said she had “babies” to get home to, one of the men replied that he “didn’t know that.”

“He grabs my legs and pulls me. Im naked, and my everything is exposed. I was sure that I was going to be raped,” she said, noting that she was only wearing a bathrobe at the time.

She was restrained along with the concierge that the robbers assailed in order to get the key to her rooms.

Kardashian said she feared her sister Kourtney would return to the to find her “dead on the bed, shot dead, and that she should have this memory forever.”

When Judge David De Pas asked whether she feared for her life, Kardashian responded, “I absolutely thought I was going to die.”

“Then they tied me up and I was hysterical. When he was about to tape my mouth, he leaned toward me and said in English ‘shh’ and ‘youll be OK.'”

Kardashian said she initially thought the robbers were police officers when they entered her room, and she feared there had been another terror attack like the one that had taken place months earlier in December 2015.

When she described the robbery during a Season 13 episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” she said she saw the robbers, dressed as police, holding down a man just outside her room. It later turned out that was the concierge. She later learned they had asked him, in French, “Wheres the rappers wife? Let us up to her room!” She was married to Ye, then known as Kanye West, at the time.

Investigators believe the suspects were following Kardashian on social media, where she was posting updates about her Paris Fashion Week experience, including showing off jewelry in her hotel, including a 20-carat diamond ring.

Many of the defendants were arrested just a few months after the robbery. Due to the age of many of the defendants, one has since died, and at least one other is too unwell to stand trial.

Aomar Ait Khedache, a.k.a. “Old Omar,” 69, is accused of being the mastermind behind the robbery. Deaf and mute, Khedache presented a note of apology that was read out by the judge.

“I want to come to you as a human being, to tell you how much I regret what I did, how emotional I was to see you in tears and I empathized with your suffering and that of your kids, husband and close ones,” the note read. “Of course, we cant change the past but I hope that this letter will help you get over the trauma you suffered because of me.”

“I do appreciate the letter,” Kardashian said. “I forgive you for what had taken place but it doesnt change the emotions, the feeling and the trauma and the fact that my life has forever changed.”

Other defendants include Khedache’s son Harminy, 37; Didier “Blue Eyes” Dubreucq, 69; Christiane Glotin, 78; and Yunice Abbas, 72. The brother of Kardashian’s driver while she was in Paris, 35-year-old Gary Madar, is also accused of providing the alleged robbers with information about her whereabouts.

Ever since the high-profile heist, Kardashian has notable stepped up her personal security, and changed her social media habits.