Kim Kardashian trial live: Stylist Simone Harouche ‘heard screaming’ and feared star was being raped
Kim Kardashian’s stylist Simone Harouche has told a courtroom she heard the star screaming in a nearby room the night the influencer was bound and gagged in a Paris apartment during a $10m jewellery heist.
The LA based stylist told the Palais de Justice in Paris on Tuesday morning she was sleeping downstairs from Kardashian and was woken by a “sound that I had never heard from Kim. It was terror.”
“What I heard specifically was ‘I have babies and I need to live, take everything, I need to live,” Harouche said. “She came into my room and she had tape around her… I thought she could have been raped or very violated.”
All eyes will be on Kim Kardashian when she steps into the witness box later on Tuesday to give evidence in the trial of ten people accused of violently robbing her in 2016.
The Californian media personality was left traumatised after she was tied up and gagged by a gang of burglars, as they stole millions of dollars worth of jewellery from the central Paris apartment where she was staying during Paris Fashion Week.
Eight of the ten defendants – who face charges including armed robbery, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy – deny any involvement in the case. The case has been dubbed the “grandpa robbers” trial due to five of them being pensioners.
The Independent will bring you live updates from inside the courtroom.
