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heist

[hahyst] / haɪst /




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In 2024, Peel Regional Police announced a series of charges and arrests linked to the heist.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Kim Kardashian was awarded 1 euro in damages for being the target of an armed heist in 2016 at the Hôtel de Pourtalès in Paris, where she was robbed of millions in jewelry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The heist is the latest in a string of such robberies in France including the daylight theft last year of crown jewellery valued at around $100 million from the Louvre in Paris.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

PARIS—A pair of thieves stole four artworks from a French museum dedicated to the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in a sign of the country’s struggle to protect its cultural heritage following last year’s Louvre heist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The theft of the Mona Lisa—the art heist of the century—was discovered because Louis Béroud got bored.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Museum heists are not increasing everywhere in Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The incident is the latest in a string of museum heists across Europe that have led to a growing number of priceless works disappearing from public view.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Recent high-profile museum heists beg the question: What can be done to ensure your personal collection doesn’t meet the same fate?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021

The interface for the Archive looks like a set of old file cabinets that might have been heisted from an old-time bail bondsman’s office.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019

During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018

The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.

From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.

From Time Magazine Archive




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