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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio Elizabeth Dutch Zaren Burnette.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a second? I do? I have a

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Speaker 2: question for.

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Speaker 3: You, and I think I probably have an answer.

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Speaker 2: You do cool? My question is what shoe size? Do

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Speaker 2: you wear?

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Speaker 3: Size?

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Speaker 2: I don't really care about that, you know, it's ridiculous,

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Speaker 2: I do what?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have a couple questions for you, really, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: if we're just going to right, yeah, the un reverse? Okay,

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Speaker 3: you wear a lot of car heart right, but like

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Speaker 3: you've been wearing it for a long long time.

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Speaker 2: I was a house painter, so I found those very comfortable.

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Speaker 2: And then I said, yeah, I can wear these when

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Speaker 2: I'm not painting exactly.

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Speaker 3: And then you also, you have like a can of

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Speaker 3: w D forty in your house.

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Speaker 2: I always do, yes, right, it's my lucky can.

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Speaker 3: But yes, so you know we're thinking about like and

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Speaker 3: you also you like French work wear like.

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Speaker 2: The Oh yeah, totally.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're super into the pockets.

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Speaker 2: I like the smock look. I want to look like

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Speaker 2: some like Jasper John's rip off.

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Speaker 3: So you're like a worker boy, Yes, pretty much.

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Speaker 2: I like the work wear right now?

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Speaker 3: Does that extend? Does that extend to your let's say,

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Speaker 3: your your personal care.

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Speaker 2: Do I use workwear on my face? Is that what

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Speaker 2: we're asking?

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Speaker 4: Sure? Is this?

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Speaker 3: Like, hey, here's a good question, Saren. What do you

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Speaker 3: smell like?

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Speaker 2: What do I smell like? Have you ever been close

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Speaker 2: to like a like one of those little brown bears

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Speaker 2: that are in the California woods?

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Speaker 3: Musky?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's musky, but yet also piney. There's like

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Speaker 2: a fragrance to you. Do you smell the.

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Speaker 3: California ever smell like w D forty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I have? Yeah, if I can't get to my

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Speaker 2: lava soap.

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Speaker 3: So ms c HF, which I suppose is like mischief.

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Speaker 3: But they took all the valves out, they fell out

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Speaker 3: running down the street.

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Speaker 2: It sounded to me like a chemical formula.

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Speaker 3: It's like an art collective. Oh yes, and they made those.

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Speaker 3: They made a luxury perfume.

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Speaker 2: What a weird art collective.

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Speaker 3: And it is a fragrance modeled after w D forty,

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Speaker 3: the industrial lubricant. Now it was it was forty eight

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Speaker 3: dollars a bottle forty, yeah, which you know in terms

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Speaker 2: Forty chips.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, basically apparently it smells exactly like w D

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Speaker 3: forty you know, it's not like we added some you know, jasmines.

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Speaker 3: Just no, this is like legit. It apparently it looks

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Speaker 3: like kind of like a WD forty can, but just

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Speaker 3: a little more streamlined and elegant.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: It's called smells like w D forty de parfume or

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Speaker 3: alcohol water fragrance.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Anyway, so you said forty eight dollars for this, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I went to the cheapest chips. As you pointed out,

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Speaker 2: I'm into that.

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Speaker 3: I went to the website smells like WD forty dot

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Speaker 3: com and it's sold out.

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Speaker 2: No shocking, seventeen bottles were.

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Speaker 3: Sold out, and you can click on a toolbox for.

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Speaker 2: That.

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Speaker 3: You can sign up for future drops. Dude, So I

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Speaker 3: signed you up. You're welcome. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'd be really impressed if they had like a

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Speaker 2: was the stuff that like my dad used like before

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Speaker 2: WT four, like real old man stuff. Right, give me

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Speaker 3: I think I can just buy a bottle and not

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Speaker 3: looking what I do. Want to just make sure you

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Speaker 3: understand is it that is ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: Damn right, that is the masships. Why do you where

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Speaker 2: do you come up with these? Do you just like

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Speaker 2: like me? Is that what?

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Speaker 3: It is? Either rug cinnamon or I stumble upon them

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Speaker 3: in the wild and magic happens.

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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, stealing from Paris Hilton ridiculous, totally ridiculous. Right,

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Speaker 2: But what if you were doing it because you love

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Speaker 2: her reality TV shows and you're convinced she's dumb enough

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Speaker 3: Did people steal her dog?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? That's true? Remember that. Yeah. We get a lot

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Speaker 2: of requests for this particular story, Elizabeth. Okay, and since

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Speaker 2: we love the rude dudes, we decided to start the

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Speaker 2: year on the goodfoot with a fan request. Yees. So Elizabeth,

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Speaker 2: you're ready to hear the story of the Bling Ring?

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Speaker 5: Of course I am.

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Speaker 2: This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists,

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Speaker 2: and cons. It's always ninety nine percent urder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth, Yes,

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Speaker 2: the Bling Ring? What do you know about them? Do

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Speaker 2: you know anything? Am I telling you something you already know?

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Speaker 4: I know?

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Speaker 2: I know some of it, You know some of it? Okay.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know much other than what headlines I'd gleaned

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Speaker 2: from living in La at the time.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe ever seen that. There's a movie right about.

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Speaker 2: It, sure, but I didn't watch it in preparation. I

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Speaker 2: didn't see that.

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Speaker 3: But I remember it was sort of like in the

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Speaker 3: wild West days of reality TV, when it had shifted

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Speaker 3: to like LA based stuff, and there was a show

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Speaker 3: at the time, Let's pretend I watched TV. Let's pretend

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Speaker 3: and there was a reality show that this girl and

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Speaker 3: her family were on the mom and like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I watched you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: And so that Yeah, so one of them was a

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Speaker 3: robber girl. She but that is exposed halfway through the season. Yes,

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Speaker 3: And then you know, I was like, if I watched TV,

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Speaker 3: then I might might have watched like Real Housewives stuff.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, but then I I kind of got into

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Speaker 3: it late. I didn't get in on the ground floor.

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Speaker 3: But then there was like one of the men on

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Speaker 3: the show took his own life, and that's when I

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Speaker 3: I had been watching TV, watch, yeah, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: able to watch reality TV after that. And that's what

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Speaker 3: That's what put the nail on the coffin. Oh, no

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Speaker 3: pun intention.

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Speaker 2: For this whole piece. I was unfamiliar with the vagaries

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Speaker 2: and the peculiarities and the specifics of the bling ring.

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Speaker 2: I just knew the vague shape. I knew the rasham

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Speaker 3: It was such a crazy time for you know, celebrity

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Speaker 3: gossip type stuff, and it was all like early aughts, yes, essentially,

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Speaker 2: Basically, this is the era when Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom,

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Speaker 2: Uh you know, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan. They were young Hollywood, right,

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Speaker 2: and now Lindsay Lohan. Interestingly, I turned out she's the

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Speaker 2: holy grail of targets for all these people. For the

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Speaker 2: she was the mountaintop anyway, the main crew for the blingering,

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Speaker 2: those four teenage girls, one teen boy and a scuzzy

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Speaker 2: low life man or two right that if you recall,

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Speaker 2: their methods were home burglaries. Their nicknames were developed slowly

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Speaker 2: because the LAPD first called them the Hollywood hills Burglars,

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Speaker 2: the la times they came up with the nickname that

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Speaker 2: stuck the Bling ring, because you're right, this was following

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Speaker 2: the early two thousand's bling era. Basically right the Hype

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Speaker 3: When you say the bling area, that's when like sort

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Speaker 2: Saying exactly, it's like it's two years late.

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Speaker 3: It's akin to how suburban moms say by Felicia, but

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Speaker 3: they don't know it's from Friday, and they don't know

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Speaker 3: the context exactly. The whole blaning thing. It makes me

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Speaker 3: want to punch people in the face.

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Speaker 2: The you just jumped out. When a La Times reporters

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Speaker 2: using bling, you can just know it's pretty much done.

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Speaker 2: So that's where we are with bling. But anyway, yes,

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Speaker 2: the thing is done now. The New York Times they

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Speaker 2: got to the heart of the matter. They said, were

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Speaker 2: teenagers too enthralled by stars? It's the questions people always ask.

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Speaker 2: This one guy like on Twitter always does like one

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Speaker 2: hundred years ago, this is what we were worried about.

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Speaker 2: It's been the same forever, right. Anyway, there was this

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Speaker 2: one guy, Officer Brett Goodkin, from the LAPD. He was

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Speaker 2: a detective who oversaw the investigation. He is a man

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Speaker 2: who is quote worthy. I'll just put it that way,

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Speaker 2: because here is a potent quotable from Officer Goodkin. It

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Speaker 2: may be a stretch, but is wanting to wear somebody's

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Speaker 2: clothes that different from wanting to wrap yourself up in

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Speaker 2: their skin? Like that guy in the Silence of the Lambs.

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Speaker 3: Wait, what, Officer Bread's.

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Speaker 2: Got something going on inside?

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Speaker 3: Bro? You borrow someone's sweater is like trying to make cry.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, trying to wear their fleshbag. So there you have it,

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Speaker 2: the vibe, the mood, the energy of this crime and

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Speaker 2: So today's purpse. They are an odd amalgam. There was

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Speaker 2: the alleged ring leaders, Rachel Lee eighteen, Nick Prugo nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Their partners in crime were Diana Tamayo she was nineteen,

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Speaker 2: she was eighteen. They were eight in a betty by

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Speaker 2: two grown men. There was Jonathan Ajar he was twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: He was a nightclub promoter, and Roy Lopez Junior, who

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Speaker 2: was a bouncer. So how did this bunch all find

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Speaker 2: each other? Elizabeth? Was it just a bunch of harmless

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Speaker 2: fun that allowed them to all come together. Kind of

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Speaker 2: that's not really no. Well, here we'll start with Nick

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Speaker 2: Prugo and Rachel Lee, the masterminds. Rachel Lee was from Calabasas.

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Speaker 2: Do you know Calabasas?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, vaguely so.

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Speaker 2: A wealthy enclave in the San Fernando Valley. It's just

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Speaker 2: over the hill from Malibu going east. It's also home

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Speaker 2: to a number of celebrities j Lo, will Smith, the Kardashians.

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Speaker 2: I used to paint houses in La which talked about

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Speaker 2: back Membra Stimes. I worked in Calabasas a bunch because

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Speaker 2: I did high end homes. There was one time we

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Speaker 2: painted in this house that was being gutted, super nice mansion.

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Speaker 2: I like took like marble home from there. It was crazy.

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Speaker 2: Right now, just down the street was j Loo's all

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Speaker 2: coming out out of it. Anyway, one day I was

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Speaker 2: out spinning brush. It's just clampter. I cleaned them. Howie

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Speaker 2: Mandel sort of like half jogs half walks by, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, is that Howie Mandel? And I just nodded

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Speaker 2: at him, because it's Calabasas. You're like, it's gotta be

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Speaker 2: a Mandel, right, I said, I wasn't bothering him, and

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Speaker 2: he saw that, so he just nodded back, Guy, I'm

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Speaker 2: painting with. He's like, who is that You're You're trying

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Speaker 2: to like head nod at and I was like, that

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Speaker 2: was Howie Mandel. He's like, who the hell is Howie Mandel.

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Speaker 2: I love those days anyway. Nice neighborhood is my point.

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Speaker 2: Lots of celebrities just milling about on the street. You

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Speaker 2: Go home, All right, Elizabeth is we're back. You run it?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Am, I yeah?

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00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 2: So, as I said October two thousand and eight, Nick

436
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,160
Speaker 2: and Rachel, they break into Paris Hilton's house not once,

437
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,880
Speaker 2: not twice, but four times. They just kept going back.

438
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 2: They're like, I love it here, and.

439
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,399
Speaker 3: She leaves the door online.

440
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,720
Speaker 2: Now you may recall that I said they picked Paris

441
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,520
Speaker 2: Hilton as their first victim because they figured she was dumb, right,

442
00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,240
Speaker 2: dumb enough to leave her house unlocked while she was away.

443
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,320
Speaker 2: Turns out they were right, well half right. She did

444
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,679
Speaker 2: lock her front door, Okay, right, she did, but she

445
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 2: also left the key to the front door under the mat,

446
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 2: no right at the front door. And she also left

447
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 2: her personal safe open and unlocked.

448
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 3: What why have a safe if you just put it.

449
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 2: In a box, like, well, you know, I can keep

450
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 2: telling you all this stuff, but I don't think you're

451
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 2: gonna really grasp it unless I put you there. So

452
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 2: rather tell you about Robin Paris Hilton, Elizabeth. I'd like

453
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,679
Speaker 2: you to close your eyes as a close I'd like

454
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,120
Speaker 2: you to picture it. It's October two thousand and eight,

455
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks, California. A Spanish tiled roofed mansion sits nestled

456
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 2: by lush and well gardened greenery notable for the autumn.

457
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 2: The home feels safe and secure behind the gates of

458
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 2: a planned community for the ultra wealthy. You are the

459
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 2: front door key to Paris Hilton's home. You are currently

460
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 2: snug as a bug in a rug where you're normally

461
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 2: secreted away by the heiress. You are under the doormat

462
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 2: at her front door, which explains why you can both

463
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 2: feel and hear the approaching footsteps. And then you feel

464
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 2: it the sweep of motion, followed by the rush of

465
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 2: cool night air. You are exposed, girl. Someone has lifted

466
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 2: back the corner of the doormat. Your metallic skin is

467
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 2: chilled by the night air. You squint and look up

468
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 2: to see a teenage burglar looking down at you. He

469
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 2: grins triumphantly, and then he says, stupid. He's not talking

470
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 2: about you. He's talking about the owner of the home,

471
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 2: Paris Hilton. The teen burglar grabs you, and with not

472
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 2: so much as hey, how are you doing, he just

473
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 2: shoves you onto the lock of the front door. One

474
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 2: quick twist lader, the tumblers of the lock release, and

475
00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 2: the front door opens to the turn of the knob Inside.

476
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 2: For some reason, the teen burglar decides to take you

477
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 2: along for the ride. He pockets you. The blimmering crew

478
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,879
Speaker 2: doesn't rush. It's just two people. They move slowly, deliberately,

479
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 2: like shoppers looking for what they want, which is essentially

480
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: what they are, but they're also quite giddy to be

481
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 2: in Paris Hilton's house. The teens they grab luggage, they

482
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,360
Speaker 2: unzip it, and then they go on shopping sprees. Drawers

483
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 2: are opened, rifled through, Jewelry boxes are opened, the contents dumped,

484
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 2: pawed through between delighted giggles. The girl thief asks if

485
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 2: the boy burglar has seen the safe yet. She says

486
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 2: she's gonna go upstairs and check for valuables. Being a key,

487
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 2: you guess that's where you'd hide the safe if you

488
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 2: were Paris Hilton in her bedroom. Now, the boy thief,

489
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: he acts us a lookout. Was the girl thief searches

490
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 2: Paris Hilton's bedroom for jewelry for clothing she likes, but

491
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 2: also for cash or for drugs. The boy thief, he's nervous.

492
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 2: He swipes sweat from his face, and he yells, let's

493
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of here with The girl thief

494
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: ignores it, keeps rifling through Paris Hilton's things. For some reason,

495
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 2: this kind of upsets you. You can't do anything about it.

496
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 2: But you're just a simple, humble, quick set key. But

497
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 2: you would just want to yell stop. Meanwhile, the girl thief,

498
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 2: she shouts back, it's fine, it's fine, let's just keep shopping.

499
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,479
Speaker 2: The girl thief discovers something she likes, a set of

500
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 2: designer bras. Apparently she and Paris Hilton are similarly sized.

501
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 2: She also sees and scoops up a designer dress she covets.

502
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 2: You're surprised when they discover Paris Hilton's nightclub room. The

503
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: heiress has her own nightclub in her home. You've never

504
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 2: been in this room. You rarely get invited inside. You're

505
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 2: always there under the door mat. Anyway, you had no

506
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 2: idea there was a nightclub inside. You find it a

507
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 2: bit ghost though. Seeing it for yourself, it's somewhat declass a.

508
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 2: You watch those. The boy thief grabs a bottle of

509
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 2: Gray Goose vodka. He says, scar and you have your

510
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: own opinions, you're like grey Goose anyway. The boy scoops

511
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 2: up handfuls of fifties and hundreds just left lying about loose.

512
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 2: Some are in random purses and handbags in the room,

513
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 2: also left scattered about. You wish you could somehow contact

514
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 2: Paris and tell her to rush home, but you also

515
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 2: don't want anything to happen to her. To Paris would

516
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 2: say you decided, she'd say that's hot, which isn't helpful

517
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 2: at all. You're surprised, though, when the boy thief takes

518
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 2: you back to the front door mat. She tucks you

519
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 2: back where he first found you. Then it all goes dark.

520
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: You listen to their footsteps as they walk away.

521
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 3: Wow.

522
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 2: The reason why the Bling Ring puts you back where

523
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 2: they found you, Elizabeth, was the reason why they returned

524
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: the key was that they wanted to come back, and

525
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 2: they did three more times.

526
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 3: And they never tied it to the key being under

527
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 3: the mat. When I say they, I mean Paris, Yeah.

528
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 2: Paris, the security team or whatever. No, they didn't think well,

529
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 2: the Bling Ring people didn't think Paris Hilton would notice

530
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: what had been stolen, because the way she left her

531
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 2: life in disarray like.

532
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 3: Those Oh so it was already kind of like everything's everywhere.

533
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 2: I guess. So this is just off the accounts of

534
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: what they're saying. So they thought, oh, we'll come back

535
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 2: in a few weeks and we'll hit her up again.

536
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 2: We'll come back in a few weeks after that, hit

537
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: her up again, And they were right. Paris Hilton did

538
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: not notice the first break in. He did not notice

539
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 2: the second break in. She did not notice the third

540
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: break in.

541
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 3: You're kidding.

542
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: She didn't phone the police or report he stolen items

543
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: to her homeowners insurance until the fourth time. And then

544
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,239
Speaker 2: just as they planned, rachel Lea and Nick Frugo, as

545
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 2: I told you, they kept going back and right up

546
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 2: to that point, right as Nick said, we found out

547
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 2: about like five grams of coke in Paris's house. That

548
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 2: was like on the second or third trip. Oh of course,

549
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: you know, chopped it up blue some rails. So they

550
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 2: got high as giraffe eyebrows inside of Paris Hilton's little nightclub,

551
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: and then they drove into the early morning racing along

552
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 2: Mulholland Drive. That's that row that runs like, oh, ribbing

553
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: across the top of the Hollywood Hills, right, And as

554
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: Nick put it, they had the best time of our lives.

555
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 3: Oh good, I should say.

556
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 2: As far as the allegations that Paris Hilton had cocaine

557
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 2: left lying around in her home, Don Miller, a representative

558
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: for Paris Hilton, would insist that I include her quote

559
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 2: and I quote, Yes. I don't know why anyone would

560
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 2: listen to allegations made by a self confessed thief. Anyway,

561
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: back to our story, Well.

562
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be like remember when

563
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,719
Speaker 3: Lindsay Lohan got busted and they found coke in her

564
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 3: pants pocket and she said they weren't her pants.

565
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my move. It's like, I don't even know

566
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 2: how I got these, that's on me. So after they

567
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: successfully rob Paris Hilton's place four different times, the heiress wise,

568
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: they said, finally catches on. She goes to the police.

569
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: She reports the thefts. Now the police are like, oh, well, okay,

570
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: that probably happens. Whatever. They thought it was an isolated thing.

571
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: They don't realize this is the beginning of a much

572
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 2: bigger iceberg. Yeah, the blingering. Mind you, they're like a

573
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 2: zoo animal at this point, but one who has tasted

574
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 2: human flesh. They long for more than like, we gotta

575
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: do this again. They're now dangerous to young Hollywood. They

576
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 2: are stalking young Hollywood, and they come up with a

577
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: wish list of other celebs that they plan to rob. Oh,

578
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: then they made their first big mistake. They invited other

579
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 2: teens to join them.

580
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, the more people.

581
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 2: You got, you got these two trouble kids, they'll keep

582
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: their secrets. And then they decide, Oh, let's call grab

583
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: my friend whoever. And then that's where it ends. That's

584
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: the beginning that marks the beginning of the end anyway.

585
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 2: February two thousand and nine, Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo. They

586
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: invite Diana Tomeo to join their crime spree. Now, Tomayo

587
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 2: was an unexpected choice since she was the two thousand

588
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 2: and eight class president at Indian Hills High School. She

589
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 2: was also voted best smile in her class. She was

590
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: also an undocumented migrant from Mexico, so she had a

591
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: lot of things of reasons not to do this.

592
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anyway, the.

593
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 2: Pair also invited another friend, Courtney Aims, into their makeshift gang.

594
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: At this point, she and Rachel they had been known

595
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: each other for a long time. She also attended Calabasas

596
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 2: High School. So as their little gang swells in number,

597
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: Nick Prugo, he begins to grow jealous, as he later recalled,

598
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 2: I didn't want all these people coming in. I found

599
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: it odd that Rachel would want to involve more people.

600
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 3: Well, I'm like, legit, if you're finding four grams somewhere now,

601
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: you gotta split it waves.

602
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: It's true, look at you work in the percentages. Well,

603
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: these newcomers, they brought their own strength to this burgeoning

604
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: criminal gang. For instance, when the crew came across this

605
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 2: one house that had no unlocked doors, no easy to

606
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: access keys, no open windows, they had newcomer Diana Tomeo,

607
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 2: and what did she do. She slid into the house

608
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: through a dog door. Her small size was a major

609
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 2: I said on this event. Now, around the same time,

610
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: February two thousand and nine, the now assembled Bling Ring

611
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: crew they picked their next young celeb target. Right, they

612
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 2: picked Audrina Partridge.

613
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 3: I don't know who that is.

614
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, so from the reality team Partridge Family The Hills,

615
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 2: she was on the.

616
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 3: Oh I never I never watched. I mean, I don't

617
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 3: watch television.

618
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:18,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you wouldn't.

619
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 3: I have ever known anyway, but yeah, I've never seen.

620
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: She was on the hills. Deal with that. They guessed

621
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: that Adrina would be out partying on Oscar night. They

622
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: were correct.

623
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 3: Wait, so okay, yeah, a reality star.

624
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: Well, everyone in La goes out partying on Oscar night.

625
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: It's like a big thing going to y You're not

626
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: going to the Vanity Fair after party, but you're going

627
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: to go to an Oscar party to be seen and

628
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: then hopefully, you know, maybe strike some business deals. Some

629
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: goes like we should cast you for this new shoot

630
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 2: or whatever. The Von Dutch party exactly. I slipped that in.

631
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: So these small time burglars, they make their next rookie mistake, right,

632
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: they get filmed by Audrina Partridges security cameras. It was

633
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: Nick Prugo on Rachel Lee's faces to get caught. Now.

634
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 2: They were filmed walking around inside the home very much

635
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: taking their time, kind of like they were shopping once again,

636
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: which essentially what they're doing now. After checking the security

637
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: camera footage, Adrena Partridge wondered why why did they do this?

638
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: And she told Nancy Joe sales from Vanity Fair, who

639
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 2: did a great story on this if you want to

640
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: read more about it. She said, quote, I watched surveillance

641
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 2: videos expecting to be these big, scary guys, and instead

642
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: was these two kids. And these two kids got to

643
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: work on her stuff. Right, So back to Audrina Partridge,

644
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: they took bags and bags of stuff.

645
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 6: They took my great grandma's jewelry, my passport, my laptop,

646
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 6: jeans made to fit my body to my perfect shape.

647
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, not your jeans made to fit your

648
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 6: body to your perfect shape.

649
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: Audrina, It's not fair.

650
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 3: Why did they take her passport?

651
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: I don't know business right exactly. Well, all told it

652
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: took forty three thousand dollars worth of her stuff that

653
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: faded Oscar night right. In a very snarling tone, Audrina

654
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: Patridge said, Rachel Lee, she's a little obsessed girl. I

655
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, she's going to get what she deserves.

656
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: She didn't know who she was at the time.

657
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: She was just talking about that girl in the video.

658
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 3: I can't believe Paris didn't have video in the house.

659
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm just saying anyway, you know, I think that

660
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: was the arrogance of being so wealthy for so long,

661
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: She's like, how could anyone ever get to me? Right now?

662
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: I don't know now. Of course, Adrena Partridge was correct.

663
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: Rachel Lee would get what was coming to her, in

664
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: which she deserved. But this would take time, Elizabeth first,

665
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: there would be many more young celeb victims and break ins. Meanwhile,

666
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 2: Adrena Partridge posted her security camera footage online and asked

667
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: for help what finding the thieves. If her fame had

668
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: caused her to be a target, perhaps she could spin

669
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 2: it back around and use her fame as a weapon

670
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 2: as a tool of investigation. Of course, TMZ ran the videos.

671
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: They're all over TV local KTLA is running it right.

672
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: No leads come forward?

673
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: Oh see Now if I am like the like if

674
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 3: I were me at that age and calabass is high, yes,

675
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: and I'm just bullied and I got neck gear on

676
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: and I'm scrolling through these celebrity boards and my eyes narrow,

677
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I can totally identify her. Let's take

678
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: her down. That would be me. They didn't have those

679
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 3: kind of.

680
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: People that they did not get those special investigators with

681
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: the grudge, well undaunted at this point and unafraid because

682
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: they had no one like you. On their case, Nick

683
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: and Rachel, they weren't done yet because they had, as

684
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: they pointed out, their whole new crew, and they all

685
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: had ideas and targets of their own. So the pressure

686
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: though starting to get to Nick Prugro. He later recalled

687
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: how one day he was watching a local news station

688
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: he sees footage of them on TV. It's him and

689
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: Rachel breaking into Audrina Partridge's place, and it was like, quote,

690
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 2: I was watching KTLA and I saw us. I just

691
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: broke down. But in the end, he also added, Rachel

692
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 2: made it seem like it was okay.

693
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 3: Trusties exactly.

694
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 2: So for of their next targets, after they hit Paris Hilton,

695
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: hit Audrina Partridge, they go up to their next place, which,

696
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: like Paris Hilton's place, they just kept going back to

697
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: rob They hit the home of the actress from the OC,

698
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: Rachel Bilson. Okay, they brought into her house six times,

699
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: six times between April and May. All told, they walked

700
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: out with one hundred and thirty grand of her stuff, jewelry, clothing, handbags,

701
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. They were so chill about robbing

702
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 2: Rachel Bilson's place that on May ninth. On one of

703
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 2: their visits, Rachel Lee reportedly took a break to go

704
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: use her bathroom and she was in there for a while.

705
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: Apparently she really wanted to crap in Rachel Bilson's toilet

706
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: weird fandom. So after robbing her place six times, the

707
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: Blame Green crew had so much of Rachel Bilson's stuff

708
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 2: that they didn't even want it all. So the one

709
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: day they went down to Venice Beach and they tried

710
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: to like hock it and resell it to tourists. They

711
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: were able to get rid of it for a few

712
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 2: extra grand They're like, yeah, do you want Rachel Bilson's

713
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, like sockbag or whatever.

714
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 3: This is, Oh, my sock bag.

715
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: So this is where reality meets rowdy TV meets rowdy

716
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: star thieves meets reality star turned thief. Yes, your girl,

717
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 2: Alexis Nears Yes in her own words pulled from her

718
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: MySpace page.

719
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 3: Yes quote.

720
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 2: I am currently working as a full time model and actress,

721
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 2: but in my spirit, when I have any I am

722
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: a plates, pole dance and hip hop instructor.

723
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: What Yes, She and.

724
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: Her sister Tess They were the stars of a new

725
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: at the time reality show from e it was filming

726
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: its first season. The show was about how the sisters

727
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: had grown up raised on self help books.

728
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 3: Yes, the mom was like super into The Secret. Yes,

729
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 3: y yeah, coming back.

730
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 2: You remember this show was The Secret, which was huge

731
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: at the time, right, Her Mom's like, I'm gonna raise

732
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: my children on this. And then they were like, we

733
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 2: need to put cameras on this and show the world,

734
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 2: and they did. Anyway, through the Vagaries of the Valley

735
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: party scene, Alexis met Nick Prugo, professional good time guy

736
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: and part time burglar. Instantly she had an opinion about him,

737
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 2: As Alexis recalled the vanity fair. I didn't care for

738
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 2: Nick anyway. It wasn't like he was like a poor

739
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 2: or anything. It wasn't like he wore the wrong clothes

740
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: or he was abnoxist. She didn't like him because he

741
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: liked her sister. He took all Tessa's attention. There was

742
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: a lot of jealousy between me and Tess and him.

743
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: Oh god, yes, And so it was indeed confirmed by

744
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: Nick's recollection of these same events. He said Tess wanted

745
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: me to be her little best friend. Tests and Alexis

746
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: got into a fight about me. Oh so not only that,

747
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 2: Rachel Lee noticed all this time he was spending with

748
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 2: Tests and Alexis, and she grows jealous, which may have

749
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: been Nick's original intention. I don't know. I mean, it's

750
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 2: like it's all like an episode of the Hills, Elizabeth.

751
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 2: It's just it's Gossip Girl all over again. I'm just kidding.

752
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 2: I've never watched the single up minute of these shows.

753
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 2: But anyway, back to Alexis, she said, Nick really liked

754
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 2: the life we had. He wanted to live like us.

755
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 2: He wanted to tag along with us to the clubs

756
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: we went to, like Apple, Guys and Dolls, Teddies, Echo.

757
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: It was known that we were out hanging out with

758
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: Emil Hirsh and Leonardo DiCaprio, just like typical young Hollywood.

759
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 3: I love dropping Emil hirshfo Leonardo to right, not a

760
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 3: meal Hirsh. And when they say Apple, I just imagine

761
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 3: them with the Apple Star outside the line silent to

762
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 3: the old Genius.

763
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 2: Bar exactly now, all kidding. Aside Alexis and Tests, they

764
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: did really open doors for Nick quite literally, as he

765
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: put it. They were the first people that brought me

766
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: out to clubs, this Valley boy, and they showed him Hollywood.

767
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: So this is also where he would meet his later

768
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: future co defendant Jonathan Ajar and Roy Lopez. But before

769
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: we get into all that, let's break into Orlando Bloom's home. Yes,

770
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: but before we do that, let's take a little break

771
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,919
Speaker 2: and then we'll be back to break into Orlando Ballooms home.

772
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: All right, Elizabeth, at this point it's July two thousand

773
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 2: and nine. You can't do it. Yeah, I'm there, you

774
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 2: remember it.

775
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.

776
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 2: Orlando Bloom, big star at the time Lord of the

777
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 2: Rings guy fires the arrows and stuff, was an elf.

778
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 3: Anyway, I tried watching the Lord of the Rings movie?

779
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 2: Did you know what happened to Your Power?

780
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 3: Are there more than one? I saw the first one?

781
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: Did Your Power Go Out? What happened?

782
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 4: No?

783
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 3: I was watching and he got so boring that I

784
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: would fast forward and they were just like walking, and

785
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 3: we're walking, and we're walking through the shire and I'm like, fastward,

786
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 3: just watching him.

787
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 2: Walk off fast movie. Fast forward is all walking.

788
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: It was all walking, and I was like, snizz, Yeah,

789
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 3: I couldn't take him.

790
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: I could see that. I can totally see that. So

791
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 2: Orlando Bloom at the time, out of town, out of La.

792
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: He's in New York filming something blingering. Cruise knows this

793
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 2: because of TMZ and also the fan sites the Prez

794
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: Hilton of it all. So they decide to hit his

795
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: place while he's away. They're like, he's out of town,

796
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 2: let's go rob him. So July thirteenth, two thousand and nine,

797
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: Nick and Alexis were at a night spot called Baso.

798
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: It's a little bar restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard. Anyway, Nick

799
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: gets a call. It's Rachel. She wants to know where

800
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: he is, what he's doing, who he's at with. He's like, oh,

801
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 2: I'm with Alexis. We're at Baso, and she tells him, well,

802
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 2: you need to come here, meet me here, right the

803
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 2: whole like drama continues.

804
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: Sure.

805
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 2: Interestingly, Alexis was reportedly staying with Nick at his parents

806
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 2: place at this time. Oh, I know right. The girl

807
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 2: ray by her parents, who relied on self help books,

808
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: had been kicked out of her home by her parents. Oh,

809
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 2: apparently they needed some self help books.

810
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 3: I think everyone needed a lot of help.

811
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 2: According to the story, she had been caught smoking oxy contin.

812
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 3: Wait, she would smoking oxy cotton? Is that something you do.

813
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: If you want to really just ruin your life. Yeah,

814
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: so that's according to Nick Prugo, right, it's not Alexis

815
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 2: near She denies that she was smoking oxy contin. So

816
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: this is the alleged part. Right again, it's all very

817
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 2: gossip girls.

818
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

819
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 2: What is clear and known is that Rachel Lee picked

820
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 2: Orlando Bloom's place as a target. It was her idea,

821
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: now not to hit it for his stuff. She's like,

822
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 2: forget Orlando. He didn't have anything she really wanted other

823
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: than maybe money and drugs. Right, But Orlando Bloom was

824
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: dating someone that Rachel Lee was very much into. Back

825
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: to Nick Prugo, Miranda Kerr, a Victoria's secret model was

826
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: dating Orlando Bloom, and Rachel wanted Victoria's Secret Model's clothing.

827
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: I had no idea that's who that.

828
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: Was Miranda Carr. So at this point, if I'm not mistake,

829
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 2: I think she also had a giant mount I think

830
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: she also had a giant piano, Remember the giant piano

831
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: that Miranda Kerr. At this point, Alexis knew that Nick

832
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: and Rachel were up to with the rest of their

833
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 2: bling ring crew. She knew the secret. She knew they'd

834
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 2: been robbing celebrity houses, and it was something of an

835
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 2: open secret in the Valley party scene, like everyone kind

836
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 2: of knew. And that night in July, she was drunk

837
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: and willing to consider bad life choices, and she was

838
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: already smoking oxygen why I'm on, But she told the

839
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: lapd later on she was quote not sure what was

840
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 2: going on. But when Nick parked his white Toyota alongside

841
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 2: a twisty road at the Hollywood Hills or in the

842
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills rather, now they were met by Rachel and

843
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: Diana Tomeo little dog Door Diana. Now together the four

844
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: hiked up to Orlando Bloom's house. They walked up backwards

845
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 2: up the hill with their arms crossed over their faces

846
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: to hide them from the security cameras. They figured out

847
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: the security camera park right, so Orlando's blooms house was

848
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 2: apparently this all black number, and Alexis Nears claims that

849
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: she didn't want to go inside, like She's like, I

850
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: don't know, that's kind of weird, right, But she was

851
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 2: drunk and possibly high on some heroin, so she's like, yeah.

852
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 3: Let's do throw another lug on the phone.

853
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: So Rachel ly snipped open a section of the chain

854
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: link fence. This four scramble through. They checked the windows

855
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,760
Speaker 2: and the doors, none are open, but they finally find

856
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: one that's opened by the pool. Right, So they stroll

857
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 2: inside the home and they get to work. They're grabbing

858
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: Louis vatone luggage and filling it with clothing and jewelry

859
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 2: and whatever they want, big rolex watches, artwork, whatever they

860
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 2: could fit in the luggage that they coveted. Right, Alexis says,

861
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 2: she shouted, what are you doing? Get me out of here,

862
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: and then with her nerves firing off, and this is

863
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: just this chaos of panic, right, she walked outside where

864
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: she promptly threw up, and then she turned around and

865
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 2: she peed in the bushes. Wow, us evacuated everything out.

866
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: We're having a get out of business sale. So meanwhile,

867
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: back inside Orlando Bloom's place, the other three are going

868
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 2: to town. Rachel Lee has laterally called it going shopping

869
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 2: at this point, as Nick would later explained, it you

870
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: grab a suitcase and you filled it up with whatever

871
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 2: you wanted. So apparently after she puked in Pete, Alexis

872
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 2: was feeling better because she walked back inside the home

873
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: and she did some shopping of her own. So once

874
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 2: she had evacuated everything, She's like, I'm purged, I'm cleansed.

875
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: Let's do this.

876
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 3: Do it.

877
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 2: So, according to Nick, in his master bedroom, rachel found

878
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: a stash of Rolexus in like fifteen hundred dollars. Alexis

879
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 2: grabbed a Louis vatone laptop sized bag and she was

880
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 2: rocking it as a purse. Miranda Kerr had a dress

881
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 2: there by Alex Perry, like a one of a kind

882
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 2: runway dress. She took that. So on his On his

883
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: surveillance footage, Lapd noted the four obscure teenagers with their

884
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 2: arms over their faces, hiking up and down the Hollywood

885
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: Hills for about two hours between three am and five am,

886
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: making multiple trip after trip after a trip for this

887
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 2: is shoppings for Elizabeth. So Nick and Alexis they leave

888
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 2: it around five am. They're like, Okay, we can't fit

889
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: any more on the Tellyota. We're out. So Diana rachel

890
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: Uage does I don't know, I'm multiple imagine like trunk

891
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 2: or steamer trunks at this point. Anyway, Rachel Lee tells

892
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 2: Nick at the time, I want artwork because I'm moving

893
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: to Vegas and I want stuff to decorate my house.

894
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 2: So she went back inside for like one more art

895
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 2: peep cart. Yeah, she planned to moved to Vegas with

896
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 2: her father, and she was done living with her mother

897
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: and her stepdad, right, so she wanted to move on,

898
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: but she wanted some art for her walk come on.

899
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, so now let's get into Jonathan. To John,

900
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 2: she took all of.

901
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 3: His Thomas concaves exactly.

902
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 2: So around this time professional sleeves bag Jonathan Ajar he

903
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: enters the picture. He was, as I told you, a

904
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 2: nightclub promoter. Nick met through his time spent with Alexus

905
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 2: and Tess and Hollywood. Nick took his hot rolexes that

906
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 2: he'd lifted from Orlando Bloom's place and he sold them

907
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: to Jonathan Ajar. By the way, dude's street name Johnny Dangers.

908
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 3: Wait, Johnny d teenagers one know, they don't they don't

909
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 3: call No one does that.

910
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 2: You're the reflection in your mirror is the only humor.

911
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 3: I mean, you tell him, dizzy exactly.

912
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: I can speak on this. According to Nick, the Blingering crew,

913
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 2: they set through sights on new young Hollywood targets names.

914
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 2: Now they got a fence to move their stuff they

915
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 2: got Johnny Dangerous working for them, so they said, you

916
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: know who we should hit? What about Zach Efron? Oh yeah, totally?

917
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: What about Hillary Duff? Oh my god, Vanessa Hudgens. They're

918
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 2: just going through names, right, but for them the creme

919
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: de la creme that they all kind of go ooh

920
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: should we I don't know? Canway is Lindsay Lohan?

921
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's the Lions done right there.

922
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 2: Else, Johnny Dangers is only too happy to help them

923
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 2: at being their new fence. So he's like, I got

924
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: some targets in mind too, if you guys want to

925
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: hit these names, We're like, these are all old people.

926
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 2: Who are these people? But no, honestly, he also picked

927
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: young Hollywood people. And true to her word, Rachel Lee

928
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: did get out of town. Oh she did move to

929
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: Vegas and lived with her father, David Lee. True to

930
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 2: his nature and their relationship, when she left town, Nick

931
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 2: helped her load up her car with all their ill

932
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: gotten games and then he drove her to Vegas like, girl,

933
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: you're got such a good life in this new town. Now.

934
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 2: I think you could say he was down bad for her,

935
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 2: but like in a platonic way. Right time may wait

936
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 2: for no man, but phrase or for their semi platonic

937
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: crush on their partner in crime, and as I pointed out,

938
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 2: crime also will wait for no man. So in August,

939
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: the Bling ring crew was back at it without Rachel Lee.

940
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: They're like, we can do this without our ring leader.

941
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 2: So they decided, you know, we should hit Brian Austin

942
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 2: Green's house, the nine Ers exactly. Now you may be

943
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 2: wondering why did they want to hit the nerd kid

944
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 2: who grew up to be somewhat sexy. You do you

945
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 2: know why? It wasn't him, just like Orlando Balloom, forget him,

946
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 2: It was his girlfriend. They wanted to hit his girlfriend

947
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: at the time, Elizabeth Megan Megabox.

948
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Oh boy.

949
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: Now Rachel Lee came back into town for this. When

950
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: she's like, y'all hitting her, I'm coming back. So she

951
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 2: coveted Megan Fox's wardrobe, so she came back from Vegas

952
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 2: for that. School Really what brought to well, it was

953
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: crazy because the next one, though, is the Summit of

954
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: Young Hollywood. Really wanted to rob Lindsay Lohan. That was

955
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: for her, way ba bigger and better than Meghan Fox.

956
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 3: Remember when that one guy kept referring to her as firecrotch.

957
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the Greek shipping magnet something right, I don't anyway.

958
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: As Nick recalled at the time, it was her ultimate

959
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: fashion icon. So just like some co star from an

960
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 2: action movie, Rachel Lee came back to town for one

961
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 2: last job. August twenty third, the original crew back together, Nick,

962
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 2: Rachel and along for the ride Dog Door Diana Timeos.

963
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 2: The three located Lindsay Lohan's Spanish style Hollywood Hills home

964
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: found away and they found an open door, and then

965
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 2: they went shopping.

966
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 3: Girl nice. I don't recall Lindsay Lohan being like a

967
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 3: like a fashion I mean yeah, I mean, like, was she.

968
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: Wearing sign She was very much even I know that

969
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 2: because I have a sister, so I know that.

970
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 3: I just recall like the really everyone was wearing those

971
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 3: really low cut.

972
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 2: Party dress yeah, the low rise dreams such.

973
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 3: You didn't liked time.

974
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: That was like the Rocker hangover with the trucker hats

975
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: and all that and the ravon Dutch of it all.

976
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 3: And it's oh, it's so fairn not.

977
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 2: A good look, No, it wasn't a good look. In

978
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 2: the seventies. It wasn't a good look when it came

979
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: back in the road.

980
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 3: Got to come back anyway, it probably will. That's horrible.

981
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 2: So when they go to Lindsay Lohan's place, they robbed

982
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: her for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of

983
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 2: clothing and jewelry.

984
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

985
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 2: For Rachel Lee and Diana Tomao, they relished their time

986
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 2: at the peak of young Hollywood. They had made it

987
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: to the Mountaintop Girl. As Nick would later tell investigators,

988
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: the girls were like freaking out over Lindsay's stuff. I

989
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 2: didn't even want to go to Lindsay's because I had

990
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 2: a feeling if anything was taken, well, just like with

991
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 2: Audrina Partridges, the footage would be released. That's what he

992
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: had the feeling of. And he was one correct. And

993
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: you remember, he remembered how he had spent all this

994
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: time in raw panics, sweating it out when he saw

995
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: his face on TMZ and yeah on KTLA and just

996
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 2: no one happened to recognize him. Well, this time, Nick

997
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 2: had every reason to fret, because three days after they

998
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: broke into Lindsay Lohan's home, the LAPD released the secure

999
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 2: footage of them and ask for the public's help finding

1000
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 2: these purps. The three had now flown too close to

1001
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: the sun.

1002
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 3: Well and for these like club kids who want to be,

1003
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 3: you know, among the rich and famous. How insulting that

1004
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 3: this comes up and everyone's like, I have no idea

1005
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 3: who these people are.

1006
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: Just so at this point, now that they've flown too

1007
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 2: close to the sun, all that's left for them to

1008
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: do is fall. Yeah, they'd been to the mountaintop Lindsay

1009
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 2: Lohan's home. There was nowhere left to go, nowhere but down.

1010
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 2: So it didn't take long for karmic gravity to yank

1011
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 2: the Bling Ring Crew back to ground. For one, they

1012
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 2: made the huge mistake of letting everyone in the valley

1013
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: know that they were robbing people and Olive Hill remember

1014
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 2: that whole thing. Yeah, the teenagers don't. They're not known

1015
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: to keep secrets, so they're since their crimes were an

1016
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: open secret with hundreds of teens. It turned out, though,

1017
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: that's not what doomed them in the end. It would

1018
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 2: be one of their own who would betray them.

1019
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: Really, and you guess who alexis?

1020
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 2: Yes, nice alexis nexus drop fit home girl raised on

1021
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 2: self help books, helped herself. She secret and she called LAPD,

1022
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: and she spoke her truth as an anonymous tipster. She

1023
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 2: figured Nick Prugo and Rachel Lee. By now we're in

1024
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, Facebook has come along. It's all

1025
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 2: the rage. It's now like pretty much everyone in college

1026
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 2: campuses wants to be on face or the Facebook. So

1027
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 2: the LAPD they used Nick and Rachel's the Facebook pages

1028
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 2: to prove that they knew each other and were friends.

1029
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 2: September seventeenth, Nick Kruger gets arrested by the LAPD. The

1030
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: cops had his face from the video from surveillance footage

1031
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 2: at Lindsey Lohan's house. He denies any and all involvement.

1032
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: He's like, that's not me. I don't know who that is.

1033
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: I mean, guy looks like me, he's kind of handsome,

1034
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 2: but it's not me. So his anxiety either kicked in

1035
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 2: something fierce. He tried to act tough right, but he

1036
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 2: couldn't eat, he couldn't sleep. He started losing hair. He

1037
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: was like, I'm losing hair man. So October he went

1038
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 2: back to the police and he confessed everything he knew,

1039
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: which was far more than they knew. He started spilling

1040
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 2: all of his beans. He didn't even have a deal

1041
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: in place when he started talking. No, his detective bred

1042
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 2: Kin told it. He confessed to crimes we didn't even

1043
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 2: know he committed. No, Nick just started talking and he

1044
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 2: didn't stop until his anxiety left him alone. As he

1045
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: put it, even though I was charged with more you

1046
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 2: know things, I still think it was the right thing

1047
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 2: to do. Oh man. We hear this often on this show,

1048
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: that the guilt starts killing them, eating at them right,

1049
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: and the confession becomes like the spiritual experience whiles and

1050
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: they step back into the light or whatever. Yeah, Nick

1051
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: credit says, the turning point in my life probably was

1052
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: not to make light of it, I really don't, but

1053
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: his confession seemed to allow him to step outside of himself.

1054
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: How his actions impacted others. That's the part that is meaningful. Yeah,

1055
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 2: I'll make fun of him, but he did seem he

1056
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 2: realized that, you know, this is difficult for teenagers. I

1057
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 2: mean they have unfinished brains twenty five and your brain's

1058
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 2: done being baked.

1059
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 3: Up, so you shouldn't do anything. Yeah, he's should just

1060
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 3: live in a box.

1061
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: So this this team with a half baked brain, He's

1062
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 2: going around making all sorts of terrible decisions. Finally he

1063
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 2: can get outside of himself. He's like, whoa man, look

1064
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 2: what I'm doing right? Okay, as Nick would put it,

1065
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 2: and I quote, I want to make it clear that

1066
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: everything I had him possession, I gave back. It was

1067
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 2: really hard for me to do that, but the stuff

1068
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 2: wasn't mine anyway, so I'm a piece of for taking it.

1069
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 2: I'm just really trying to make whatever amends I can,

1070
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 2: especially to these celebrities that I victimized. I really want

1071
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 2: them to know that I'm sorry. I'm not really sure

1072
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 2: how I'm gonna do that yet, but I really plan

1073
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 2: on making some formal apology to them. I don't know

1074
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: how they'll react. I mean, to have someone in your

1075
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,479
Speaker 2: house where it's your most personal of sanctuaries, Well.

1076
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 3: That's actually very self aware.

1077
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 2: Exactly good for him setting all the whole like I

1078
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 2: want to make amends of celebrities like, but just two people.

1079
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 2: It's really kind of nice.

1080
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1081
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 2: As for Rachel Lee, after he was arrested, he didn't

1082
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 2: get to contact her, but he told Vanity Fair quote,

1083
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 2: it was a real friendship, and this whole thing's been

1084
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 2: really hard. I still love her, right, And if you

1085
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 2: still want to know why they did it beyond his

1086
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 2: unrequited yet, according to him, sisterly love for Rachel Lee.

1087
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 2: Nick Prugro has an answer for you. It's not much

1088
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 2: of an answer, but it is an answer. Elizabeth. We

1089
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: just did it.

1090
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 3: Oh.

1091
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 2: I know it sounds dumb, but Rachel just wanted to close.

1092
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 2: She wanted to look pretty. I was just following Rachel.

1093
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 2: I loved her, almost like a sister.

1094
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 3: I just wanted her to be pretty after this date.

1095
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 2: After his day in court on April fifteenth, twenty thirteen,

1096
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 2: Nick Prugo gets tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years

1097
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: in prison. Two weeks after he first confessed, LAPD arrested

1098
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 2: dog Door Diana Tomao, Roy Lopez Junior, the bouncer Jonathan

1099
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 2: a Jar aka Johnny Dangerous, and they also arrested the

1100
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 2: tipster Alexis Nares Oops Oopsy and the LAPD even went

1101
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 2: and arrested Rachel Lee at her father's house in Las Vegas.

1102
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she did not take the news well, girl.

1103
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 3: I can imagine.

1104
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 2: According to LAPD, Lee asked several officers if they were

1105
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: released her if she told them where everything is. This

1106
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 2: was of course, just for instance, and that was the

1107
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 2: led LAPD's arrest report put it, Lee allegedly said, hypothetically,

1108
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 2: let's say I might know where this property is located

1109
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 2: and who has it? How could that help me? She

1110
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 2: was feeling pretty cocky since she believed she had removed

1111
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 2: any and all stolen property from her father's place, but

1112
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 2: she was wrong. She had not because she was a

1113
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 2: verse to war, so that caught up to her at

1114
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 2: the worst moment. Back to the LAPD arrest report and

1115
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: Rachel Lee, it is clear that Lee felt she had

1116
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 2: successfully removed all items of stolen property from the residents

1117
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 2: right as I sawd you, Elizabeth, she had not. The

1118
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 2: LAPD found one of Lindsay Lohan's coats, oh, and really

1119
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 2: creepily some topless photos of Paris Hilton that Rachel Lee

1120
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 2: had stolen and kept herself. When she saw the LAPED

1121
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 2: officers holding Lindsay Lohan's coat in the topless photos of

1122
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 2: Paris Hilton's, she knew her good times were over. Back

1123
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: to the LAPD arrast report, her mood instantly changed from

1124
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: being calm and collected, instantly becoming nearly hysterical, physically ill

1125
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 2: and gagging as though she were about to vomit. In total,

1126
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: police found twenty thousand dollars of stolen goods in her

1127
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 2: father's home. Oops. Oh, so she gets arrested in Rachel

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00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: Lee spoke with the officers again. Back to the LAPD

1129
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 2: arrest report. Lee asked Detective lee Anne Hoffman if she

1130
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 2: had spoken to the victims. Hoffman replied that she had

1131
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 2: spoken to all of the victims. Lee became excited and asked,

1132
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 2: what did lindsay say?

1133
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: Oh, this is a sickness, yes, totally so.

1134
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 2: Since her arrest, Lee and her family have denied all

1135
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 2: requests for interviews like we come from North Korea.

1136
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:09,760
Speaker 3: I'm not talking to the past.

1137
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: Her lawyer, Peter Corn, and that's with a K, just

1138
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: like the band Peter KRN. Mister Corn said, I don't

1139
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 2: want to participate in the media attention in this case. Sir,

1140
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: you took this client. I think at your job to

1141
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 2: participate in the media attention in this case anyway. Rachel

1142
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 2: Ly she gets tried, convicted, sentence to four years in prison.

1143
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: On a good note. While locked up, she joined a

1144
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 2: program called fire Camp Disaster released training program for convicts.

1145
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 2: She was released early for her good behavior after one

1146
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 2: year four months.

1147
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 3: Look at you girl, wait is she not fighting wild fighter?

1148
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, she became a firefighter, oh wow, or at least

1149
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 2: part of the program to She may not be a firefighter.

1150
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: She may be part of the auxiliary part of that program.

1151
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1152
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 3: I really feel like any of the convicts who do that,

1153
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 3: who try to become firefighters, atically become fired.

1154
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 2: Firefightings are much a family job, like being a stunt man.

1155
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 2: They don't want to let people in and I'll be

1156
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: there fighters, of course, I agree, but it's also very

1157
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 2: much a somewhat of a closed ranks job. Not a

1158
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: lot of jobs, you know. So for anyway, my girl

1159
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 2: Diana old dog door to Mayo. She pleaded no contest

1160
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 2: to her charge. Just she received three years probation, sixty

1161
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 2: days of community service. She has since found God good

1162
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 2: for her. Springs us to your girl Alexis Near. Yes,

1163
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 2: you watched her show, you loved her. You already know

1164
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 2: what happened. But for the sake of finishing her story,

1165
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: let me tell you this. Her reality show when she

1166
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 2: was filming for E documented her subsequent arrest and trial.

1167
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 2: Do you remember when her mother was telling her, try

1168
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: to be really proactive about telling them your journey. She

1169
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 2: was apparently coaching her, and she was terrible and they

1170
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: were fighting all the time.

1171
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the mom is just insufferable. All I remember

1172
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 3: from that show is Alexis trying to leave a voicemail

1173
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 3: or something for the Vanity Fair.

1174
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Nanty Josel Yeah.

1175
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,919
Speaker 3: And like crying. But that's yes, that's about the only

1176
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 3: memory I had.

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00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 2: She puts that kind of in the story. She When

1178
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 2: she faced justice on camera, Alexis had to answer for

1179
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 2: the Mark Jacob's person in her possession that belonged to

1180
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 2: Rachel Bilson. She had also had a Chanel necklace that

1181
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 2: belonged to Lindsay Lohan. Double oops. Alexis promised I have

1182
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 2: receipts for everything. She did not have receipts anything. Now,

1183
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 2: as you may recall as her reality show and hedocumented,

1184
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 2: the cameras were there when she walked out of jail

1185
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 2: and van eyes did you see that anyway? I don't know.

1186
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 2: One week prior to her arraiement, Alexis was still denying

1187
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 2: that she was in any way involved with the Bling

1188
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 2: Ring crew. Right, so she's got these cameras coveringers. She's like,

1189
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 2: I don't even know those girls or whatever, Right, Yeah,

1190
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 2: as she told Vanity Fair Nancy Joe sales from Navanity Fair,

1191
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 2: and I quote, I'm a firm believer in karma, and

1192
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 2: I think the situation that was attracted into my life

1193
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: because it was supposed to be a huge learning lesson

1194
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 2: for me to grow and expand as a spiritual human being.

1195
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 2: I see myself being like an Angeline as Joee, but

1196
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 2: God even stronger, you know, pushing even harder for the

1197
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 2: universe and for peace and for the health of our planet.

1198
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 3: She's like, I stole all this stuff, but how can

1199
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 3: I make this.

1200
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 2: About me in my journey and how I'm better than

1201
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 2: But that's not all, Elizabeth, your girl, alexis near head

1202
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 2: more to say. She further added, God didn't give me

1203
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 2: these talents and looks just to sit around being a

1204
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: model or being famous. I want to lead a huge

1205
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 2: charity organization. I want to lead a country for all

1206
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 2: I know. For all I know kills me. Alexis near.

1207
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: She learned that the actor Orlando Bloom was prepared to

1208
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 2: testify against her at her trial. She then made an

1209
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 2: abrupt one eighty on her whole legal strategy. She pleaded

1210
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 2: no contest to her charges. She was tried convicted dissentist

1211
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 2: one hundred days in jail, not to mention six hundred

1212
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in restitution that she owed Orlando Bloom. Apparently

1213
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: she went shopping hard in his place.

1214
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like it.

1215
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 2: Now, I've saved the best part for last. Alexis Nears

1216
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 2: was not alone in jail while she was locked up

1217
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 2: in Ellie County holding. She was at the Century Regional

1218
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 2: Detention Facility. That sounds familiar for any reason. It's in

1219
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 2: lynn Wood, just off the one of five Freeway. Y. Yeah, yeah,

1220
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 2: it's a great King Taco right by there. Anyway. Staying

1221
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 2: on the same cell block as Alexis was Lindsay Low.

1222
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 3: That's when they were doing like twenty four hours and

1223
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 3: the second still longer. But yeah, she would come in

1224
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 3: three hours totally.

1225
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: So Lindsay was coincidentally serving time for her own little

1226
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 2: legal piccadols. We don't need to get into those. But

1227
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 2: what do you think, Lindsay Lohan said to one of

1228
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 2: her obsessed teen girls who had robbed her and her friends.

1229
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 3: Wait, they actually spoke nothing.

1230
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 2: They never spoke.

1231
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 3: Oh darn it.

1232
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 2: Can you believe that one month after all these opportunities.

1233
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: Alexis Naiers was released, and lastly we get to Johnny

1234
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 2: Dangerous aka Jonathan jar the club promoter. Turns out he

1235
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 2: had a prior cocaine conviction. That was bad news for

1236
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 2: him when the cops showed up and searched his home

1237
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 2: and they found cocaine. But not only that, they also

1238
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 2: found a handgun. But that's a no note for a felon.

1239
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 2: The worst part was the gun wasn't his. It was

1240
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 2: Brian Austin Green's gun. No, that's another crime.

1241
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 3: That's the.

1242
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 2: Exactly so Johnny Dangerous he caught the most charges. He

1243
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 2: was wrung up on three counts of possession of a

1244
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 2: firearm by a felon, six counts of possession for sale

1245
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 2: of control substance aka cocaine, and he caught a charge

1246
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 2: for having AMMO also as a felon. In the end,

1247
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,399
Speaker 2: he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to three years in jail.

1248
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 3: Wow.

1249
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,760
Speaker 2: Nick Prugo recalled how Johnny Dangerous had been taking advantage

1250
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 2: of the kids who brought him all the hot merchandise

1251
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: defense ye as Nick recalled, he gave us five thousand

1252
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,760
Speaker 2: dollars for like ten rolexes, which I guess is a ripoff,

1253
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 2: now that I think of.

1254
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 3: It, I guess.

1255
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 2: So there you, Elizabeth. What's our ridiculous takeaway here?

1256
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 3: Know from a ripoff? Come on now, my ridiculous takeaway

1257
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 3: is that celebrity. It's fascinating to me always how some

1258
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 3: people are completely intoxicated by celebrity and we'll do whatever.

1259
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 2: It is a powerful magic. Yeah, yeah, it's not one

1260
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 2: I have any interest in. Like, I wouldn't want to

1261
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 2: be famous. It's not something that I go, hey, that

1262
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 2: looks like fun. It looks like it's really disorienting for

1263
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 2: the person who's famous yea, and disorienting for people who

1264
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 2: are around the person who it's just being. One example,

1265
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 2: when you get some teenagers, they do all sorts of

1266
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 2: stuff because they're like, well, I can drive, but I

1267
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm doing. I don't have executive function

1268
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 2: my brain. It's not done baking. Anyway. That was my story.

1269
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.

1270
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 2: Thanks, I enjoyed it.

1271
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you for asking.

1272
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 2: That's all. You can find us online at ridiculous Crime,

1273
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 2: on Twitter, Instagram, and somewhere else. We have a website,

1274
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 2: ridiculous crime dot com. We love it when you give

1275
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 2: us talkbacks, So go onto the iHeart app, download it

1276
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: if you don't have it, and talk back at us

1277
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 2: emails if you want a Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. Heylizabeth,

1278
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 2: you know what are you in the mood to hear

1279
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 2: a cock crick.

1280
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 3: Talkback?

1281
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 7: Zaron Burnette, You and Elizabeth are a handful id love

1282
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 7: the wish You make her laugh when you do your

1283
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 7: voice impression. Boy, you are very talented. Love the show.

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Speaker 7: Thanks a lot for the laughs.

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Speaker 2: See you have those fun Okay, That's all I got

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Speaker 2: for you, folks. We'll catch you next crime. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaron Burnette,

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Speaker 2: produced and edited by Sergeant of Arms of the Audrina

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Speaker 2: Partridge fan Club, Dave Houston. Research is by Marissa Berlin,

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Speaker 2: Hilton Brown, and Andrea London. Hilton Song Sharp and Tear,

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Speaker 2: our theme song is by Thomas Helsinki, Hilton Lee and

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Speaker 2: Travis Kansas City Hilton Dutton. The host wardrobe provided by

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Speaker 2: Body five hundred. Executive producers are Ben Bangkok, Hilton Bolan

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Speaker 2: and Noel Leave Brady Alone.

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Speaker 4: Brown, Redicks, CUI Say It One More Time, Geek wes.

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Speaker 1: Crme Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. Four more

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