Kim Kardashian was the most famous woman in the world when, in 2016, during Paris Fashion Week, a band of robbers broke into her apartment as she was getting ready for bed, held her at gunpoint while they ransacked £7.5m of her jewellery, bound her up with duct tape and zip ties in a technique grimly known as “saucissonage”, and threw her in the bath.
She prepared herself to be raped – her robe was hanging open and she was naked underneath – and was convinced she was going to die. She begged them to let her go, crying “I have babies”, and imagined her sister Kourtney returning from a nightclub to find her dead body on the bed. “I was certain that he was going to shoot me and it was over,” she told a Paris court on Monday. “So I said a prayer for my family and my sister and best friend that they would have an OK life after seeing what they were going to see.”
If she was anyone but Kim Kardashian, her ordeal – which has taken nine years to reach a trial, expected to continue until the end of the month – would be universally horrifying. This is surely one of the most high-profile violent robberies in recent memory.
But a diamond heist, a gang of “grandpa robbers” with nicknames like “Old Omar” and “Blue Eyes” – including one who wrote a memoir bragging about the crime – and the immense privilege of the victim are all too irresistible. Kardashian’s nightmare gets dismissed as a celebrity folly, like the circus around Wagatha Christie or Gwyneth Paltrow’s “I lost half a day of skiing” Utah collision case (both of which were so high camp they have been adapted for the stage). In reality, it was a gruesome trauma that continues to cloud Kardashian’s life a decade later.
Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner after Kardashian’s testimony (Photo: LEO VIGNAL/AFP)As she took to the stand in sunglasses, a black John Galliano skirt suit with the angles of a Disney villain and diamonds worth almost the same as the ones she had stolen in the first place, the world looked on and sneered, as it usually does.
But here’s the thing that people don’t understand about the Kardashians: their ability to articulate their trauma and invite the world to watch and judge without the fear of shame is the very foundation of their empire.
It might seem, 18 years, 13 babies, several billion dollars and a sad generation of Juvedermed, Botoxed women in, that their fame and the seismic cultural changes in the worlds of tech, celebrity and beauty alongside it were always predicated on shallow idolatry of the overprivileged and an irresponsible glamorisation of inherited wealth. That isn’t the whole story. The reason this family, with Kim at its core, has always been compelling, is their willingness to process pain and dysfunction on camera and offer it up as entertainment. With no shame, and often remarkable good humour.
When Keeping Up with the Kardashians began in 2007, there wasn’t much to set it apart from other unfiltered reality TV shows of its era except for the silliness and intimacy between matriarch and “momager” Kris Jenner and her six children. Here was a blended family, many of whom were freshly mourning the loss of Robert Kardashian four years earlier and with Kim reclaiming (or capitalising on) her reputation in the wake of her leaked sex tape, recording their family fights (many physical) and socialite lives in Los Angeles.
It was mindless, and not remotely relatable, but easy to watch because these (mostly) women seemed to have so much fun, and possessed a curious ability to be open about even the most uncomfortable parts of their lives that most families would keep hidden to maintain a veneer of perfection.
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But as their popularity grew, the stakes of their drama did, too. Divorces, infidelity, fertility struggles, drug scandals, paternity tests, breakdowns, and the messy fallout since patriarch Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transition – this sort of disruption for ever changes and even destroys other families. Other families bury things. The Kardashians, meanwhile, kept showing it all, kept inviting the world to look on and comment, and laughed their way to the bank.
Much of what Kim Kardashian, now 44 and studying to be a lawyer, said in Paris this week is not new – she has been talking candidly about the robbery for nine years, processing its impact on her, and as always, inviting the world to judge her.
Those who mocked her or smirked or refused to see her as a victim as she told the court, “This is my closure. This is me putting this, hopefully, to rest” aren’t just betraying a misogyny. They are refusing to understand how powerful vulnerability is. Kim Kardashian has always known, and has achieved success and influence because vulnerable is all she has ever been.
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