Kim Kardashian is finally going to testify about being robbed in Paris. How did we get here?

It has been astir 3,150 days — much than 8½ years — since Kim Kardashian was robbed astatine gunpoint successful Paris. On Tuesday, she yet gets to attest against the suspects.

By the autumn of 2016, the Kim Kardashian West bid had been speeding done the personage scenery similar a slug for years, moving down anyone successful its mode and leaving everyone other successful the dust. She was everything everyplace each astatine once, each the time. She had been married, past divorced, past had babies, past got joined again. She broke the internet. And that fame bid seemed destined to ellipse the globe successful perpetuity.

Then came Paris Fashion Week. What could spell wrong?

In the early-morning hours of Oct. 3, 2016, the Kim K. bid abruptly derailed: A enactment of men entered Kardashian’s two-story Paris pad, equipped with guns and zip ties and hunting for jewels. Specifically, Kardashian’s jewels, which she had flaunted connected societal media.

What happened successful the Paris apartment?

Shortly aft 2 a.m. section time, Kardashian was reportedly lying successful furniture clad lone successful a robe erstwhile she heard radical stomping up the stairs successful her two-story flat astatine the Hôtel de Pourtalès. It turned retired the men had been directed determination by the nighttime concierge, who said helium had been threatened astatine gunpoint. She caught a glimpse of 2 of the guys, rolled disconnected the furniture and tried to telephone her bodyguard earlier her telephone was taken from her.

Her wrists were zip-tied and duct-taped, and she was grabbed by the ankles — astatine which point, she told the police, she thought she was going to beryllium raped. Instead, her assailants bound her ankles with duct portion and carried her to the bathtub, arsenic Kardashian screamed for them to instrumentality her wealth and jewelry but delight spare her life, due to the fact that she was astatine that constituent the parent of 2 children.

The men did not talk English but kept saying, “Ring, ring,” she told police. After Kardashian told them wherever to find the monolithic diamond — a caller acquisition from then-husband Kanye West that she had been showing disconnected connected societal media — they duct-taped her mouth.

Kardashian was near lying helplessly connected the bath level arsenic the robbers near with their haul. A person who was staying successful a downstairs chamber heard the commotion and called the world star’s bodyguard, who had been retired with her sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner astatine a nine adjacent and rapidly returned to the hotel.

Did radical judge Kardashian’s story?

The internet-posting nationalist did not judge her, astatine slightest astatine first. Self-styled pundits instantly suggested she had staged the full happening for publicity — arsenic if she couldn’t get that connected her ain simply by waking up and snapping a selfie. The world prima rapidly sued MediaTakeout.com for libel aft it said she made up the story, lied astir the battle and filed a fraudulent security claim. Police, meanwhile, rapidly dismissed the conception that Kardashian was lying due to the fact that she was truthful severely shaken up, but earnestly investigated whether it was an wrong job. (The nighttime concierge and the bodyguard are slated to attest astatine trial.)

The libel suit was settled wrong weeks, CNN reported, with the website issuing a retraction and acknowledging that Kardashian had successful information been robbed astatine gunpoint.

When did authorities apprehension and complaint the suspects?

Arrests came Jan. 10, 2017, erstwhile 17 radical were taken into custody successful aggregate raids astir Paris. Kardashian’s chauffeur was among those arrested, but helium was released aft questioning. By 2021, the suspects had been narrowed to 12 radical who were slated to basal trial. One suspect, however, has died since being questioned, and different has been excused from the proceedings due to the fact that helium is 81 and has precocious Alzheimer’s, the BBC reported.

In fact, French media has been referring to the main suspects arsenic the Grandpa Robbers, owed to their precocious ages — the eldest suspect is 78. They didn’t truly cognize who Kardashian was astatine the clip of the robbery but were reportedly told she was “a rapper’s wife.” Ten suspects stay connected the hook, including 1 woman. Of those, 5 went into Kardashian’s flat during the robbery. The remainder are accused of aiding and abetting.

What person the suspects been doing since then?

One suspect, Yunice Abbas, told a French outlet successful 2022 that since Kardashian “was throwing wealth away, I was determination to cod it, and that was that. Guilty? No, I don’t care. I don’t care.”

Now 71, Abbas, 1 of 2 suspects whose DNA was recovered astatine the transgression scene, has said helium plans to apologize erstwhile he’s successful court. He besides says helium was unarmed and acted arsenic a lookout connected the crushed level of the hotel.

“I saw 1 of her shows wherever she threw her diamond successful the excavation successful that occurrence of ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians,’” helium told Vice successful 2022. “I thought, ‘She’s got a batch of money. This woman doesn’t attraction astatine all.’”

The alleged mastermind down the plot, Aomar Ait Khedache, wrote an apology missive to Kardashian from situation successful 2017, saying helium regretted his actions and realized the intelligence harm helium caused. “Old Omar” has admitted tying up Kardashian but denies being the brains down the operation.

The different suspects, including Ait Khedache’s lad Harminy, person maintained their innocence.

What happened to the jewelry?

About $6 cardinal worthy of jewelry was stolen, oregon possibly it was $10 cardinal worth, depending connected which of the galore accounts tin beryllium trusted. Kardashian and ex-husband Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, reportedly submitted security claims worthy $5.6 million. In the 8½ years since the robbery, lone 1 portion has been recovered: a diamond transverse connected platinum that the suspects mislaid arsenic they escaped connected bicycles. Its worth was estimated astatine conscionable implicit $33,000, per Vanity Fair.

An 18.8-carat diamond ringing — which was a acquisition to Kardashian from Ye — a yellow-gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, 7 Cartier and Hermès bracelets and 3 gold-and-diamond grills were each successful the haul, VF reported. Anything that was unique, similar the chromatic successful that diamond ring, has apt been breached down into pieces and resold, a jewelry-theft adept told People successful 2016.

What happens next?

Kardashian is acceptable to attest successful Paris connected Tuesday day — astir 5 a.m. successful California. She volition beryllium questioned archetypal by the judge, according to the New York Post, past by her attorneys, past by the prosecutors, and yet by the defendants’ attorneys.

In mid-April, a Kardashian lawyer confirmed to the AP that she would attest astatine the trial, which started April 28 and is scheduled to tally until May 23. But until she appears connected the stand, the connection said, the world mogul is “reserving her grounds for the tribunal and assemblage and does not privation to elaborate further astatine this time.”

That sounds similar it’s French for “no comment.”