Kardashian West heist case set for trial
Twelve people will stand trial in Paris over a $10 million jewelry heist targeting Kim Kardashian West in 2016, authorities said Friday.
The reality TV star said she was tied up at gunpoint and locked in a bathroom after armed robbers forced their way into her rented Paris apartment during fashion week.
After five years of investigation, investigating judges have ordered the case sent to trial, a judicial official said Friday. The 12 suspects face a range of charges related to the theft. No trial date has been set, and the official would not provide further details.
Several suspects have been released from jail pending trial for health reasons, including Yunice Abbas, 68, one of the five men accused of carrying out the heist itself, who published a book about it last year.
The alleged mastermind, Aomar Ait Khedache, wrote Kardashian West an apology letter from prison, saying he regrets his actions and realizes the psychological damage he caused. At the time, a spokeswoman for Kardashian West said she was badly shaken but physically unharmed.
Photographer Rock dies:
Photographer Mick Rock, 72, whose iconic portraits of rock stars including David Bowie, Lou Reed and Debbie Harry saw him dubbed “the man who shot the ’70s,” has died.
A statement posted Friday on Rock’s official social media accounts said, “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side.” No cause of death was given.
Rock studied at Cambridge University, where he met Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, who became one of his first subjects. He was Bowie’s official photographer in the early 1970s, helping to make the singer’s alter ego, androgynous alien superstar Ziggy Stardust, a sensation.
Rock went on to take some of the most famous music photos of the era: a topless Iggy Pop on the cover of the “Raw Power” album; a spectral Lou Reed on “Transformer”; the members of Queen, their faces part-shadowed, for the cover of “Queen II.”
Queen guitarist Brian May said he was “sad and shocked to hear of the passing of our friend, photographer Mick Rock.”
Rock had heart bypass surgery and a kidney transplant in the 1990s after years of rock ’n’ roll excess. He gave up cigarettes and drugs and carried on working, taking images of musicians
including Pharrell Williams, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus.
Eilish, Rudd to host ‘SNL’:
Billie Eilish and Paul Rudd are set to host the last two “Saturday Night Live” episodes of 2021. Eilish will host her first “SNL” and appear for the second time as a musical guest on the sketch show Dec. 11, followed by Rudd, who will host “SNL” for the fifth time Dec. 18. Rudd will be joined by Charli XCX, who will be performing as the show’s musical guest for the second time.
Actor Michael Callan is 86. Director Terry Gilliam is
81. Musician Steven Van Zandt is 71. Actor Richard Kind is 65. Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 63. Actor Mariel Hemingway is 60. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 54. Actor Scarlett Johannson is 37. Singer Candice Glover is
32. Actor Dacre Montgomery is 27.
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