heist
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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
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 four suspected Louvre robbers have been arrested, but the jewels they are accused of grabbing in the seven-minute heist have still not been found.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Since eating the rich is in fashion, heist stories are the heroic fables of our time.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Ultimately, the police had no evidence tying the pair to the heist.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Museum heists are not increasing everywhere in Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 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
Not since Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief” has there been a more charismatic and lovable “villain,” not to mention some pretty great heists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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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