The sight of Paris Hilton's jewelry covering the surface of a plain, wooden kitchen table was staggering. Diamond bracelets. Bangles. Expensive watches. Cocktail rings. Pearls. This was just some of the stuff the LAPD had recovered when they raided the homes of the teens and 20-somethings we'd later come to know as the Bling Ring. It was 2009, and I was a 25-year-old correspondent for a cable TV network, crouched on the ground in front of police headquarters, scribbling notes as Detective Brett Goodkin shared pictures and descriptions of the loot with me and the three or four dozen other journalists assembled.
It wasn't surprising to me when, fewer than five years later, I found myself watching the story unfold again on the big screen in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." The fascination was already at a fever pitch in the fall of 2009. The group was eventually linked to...
It wasn't surprising to me when, fewer than five years later, I found myself watching the story unfold again on the big screen in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." The fascination was already at a fever pitch in the fall of 2009. The group was eventually linked to...
- 8/23/2022
- by Lindsay Miller
- Popsugar.com
The former OC star claims the director is glorifying the actions of the Los Angeles gang that stole from her and other celebrities
Rachel Bilson, The Oc star whose house was robbed five times by the so-called "bling ring", has spoken out against Sofia Coppola's movie about the gang's crimes. The bling ring were a group of teenagers who broke into the houses of Los Angeles celebrities in 2008 and 2009, stealing $1m worth of their belongings. Their high-profile victims included Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom and Megan Fox.
Bilson has hit out against Coppola's film, arguing that it glamourises the crimes of the real life gang, who in 2009 stole more than £200,000 worth of her possessions.
"I thought it was weird to glorify something that was so upsetting for a lot of people," she told Cosmopolitan magazine. "It's important to detach from material things, but the special, personal things I lost are hard to forget.
Rachel Bilson, The Oc star whose house was robbed five times by the so-called "bling ring", has spoken out against Sofia Coppola's movie about the gang's crimes. The bling ring were a group of teenagers who broke into the houses of Los Angeles celebrities in 2008 and 2009, stealing $1m worth of their belongings. Their high-profile victims included Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom and Megan Fox.
Bilson has hit out against Coppola's film, arguing that it glamourises the crimes of the real life gang, who in 2009 stole more than £200,000 worth of her possessions.
"I thought it was weird to glorify something that was so upsetting for a lot of people," she told Cosmopolitan magazine. "It's important to detach from material things, but the special, personal things I lost are hard to forget.
- 7/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
This true story of a gang of celeb-obsessed thieves startles with its sharpness
For a satire on America's modern day celebrity culture, The Bling Ring is hard to beat. And, like all tales that come from the Us that sound too far-fetched and redolent with symbolism to be real, it is entirely true.
Between 2008 and 2009, a group of five teenagers, one boy and four girls, spent their weekends on the outskirts of Los Angeles doing typical modern-day, middle-class American teenager stuff: updating their Facebook pages, going to Pilates classes, reading celebrity gossip on the internet, taking photos of themselves on their iPhones. And then, when they were done with all that, they would get drunk, get high, and get in a car. But after that they did something different: they raided the houses of celebrities they'd spent the day reading about on the web.
The celebrities, perhaps feeling protected by their own fame,...
For a satire on America's modern day celebrity culture, The Bling Ring is hard to beat. And, like all tales that come from the Us that sound too far-fetched and redolent with symbolism to be real, it is entirely true.
Between 2008 and 2009, a group of five teenagers, one boy and four girls, spent their weekends on the outskirts of Los Angeles doing typical modern-day, middle-class American teenager stuff: updating their Facebook pages, going to Pilates classes, reading celebrity gossip on the internet, taking photos of themselves on their iPhones. And then, when they were done with all that, they would get drunk, get high, and get in a car. But after that they did something different: they raided the houses of celebrities they'd spent the day reading about on the web.
The celebrities, perhaps feeling protected by their own fame,...
- 7/4/2013
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
By this point, everybody and their former lingerie model mother knows that Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" is based on a true story. What they may not know, however, is that the truer true story, told in journalist Nancy Jo Sales' reportorial book "The Bling Ring" (expanded from her original Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins") is even wilder than the drug-fueled, celebrity-obsessed months depicted in Coppola's film.
You know how they say you can't make this s**t up? Yeah, that. Like alleged Bling Ring leading lady Rachel Lee leaving a stinky something in Rachel Bilson's house, or the self-obsessed monologues alleged accomplice-turned-reality TV star Alexis Neiers (oh yeah: She got a reality TV show, not that you'll see that hubbub on the big screen) delivered: All real.
Ahead, 16 crazy but realer-than-botox things you may not have known about the real story behind "The Bling Ring.
You know how they say you can't make this s**t up? Yeah, that. Like alleged Bling Ring leading lady Rachel Lee leaving a stinky something in Rachel Bilson's house, or the self-obsessed monologues alleged accomplice-turned-reality TV star Alexis Neiers (oh yeah: She got a reality TV show, not that you'll see that hubbub on the big screen) delivered: All real.
Ahead, 16 crazy but realer-than-botox things you may not have known about the real story behind "The Bling Ring.
- 6/17/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
The sight of Paris Hilton’s jewelry covering the surface of a plain, wooden kitchen table was staggering. Diamond bracelets. Bangles. Expensive watches. Cocktail rings. Pearls. This was just some of the stuff the Lapd had recovered when they raided the homes of the teens and 20-somethings we’d later come to know as the Bling Ring. It was 2009, and I was a 25-year-old correspondent for a cable TV network, crouched on the ground in front of police headquarters, scribbling notes as Detective Brett Goodkin shared pictures and descriptions of the loot with me and the three or four dozen other journalists assembled. It wasn’t surprising to me when, less than five years later, I found myself watching the story unfold again on the big screen in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. The fascination was already at a fever pitch in the Fall of 2009. The group was eventually...
- 6/14/2013
- by Lindsay Miller
- Popsugar.com
This story comes courtesy of La Weekly
By Siran Babayan
"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity homes in 2008 and '09 did happen. And somebody did buy it — director Sofia Coppola, whose upcoming film "The Bling Ring" (out June 14) is inspired by the Hollywood crime spree. It's also the subject of Sales' new book, likewise titled "The Bling Ring."
Coppola hired Sales as a consultant on the film after optioning her 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Realizing she had enough material on the case for a book, Sales started writing "The Bling Ring" last summer. It hits bookstores next week.
The Bling Ring,...
By Siran Babayan
"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity homes in 2008 and '09 did happen. And somebody did buy it — director Sofia Coppola, whose upcoming film "The Bling Ring" (out June 14) is inspired by the Hollywood crime spree. It's also the subject of Sales' new book, likewise titled "The Bling Ring."
Coppola hired Sales as a consultant on the film after optioning her 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Realizing she had enough material on the case for a book, Sales started writing "The Bling Ring" last summer. It hits bookstores next week.
The Bling Ring,...
- 5/18/2013
- Huffington Post
Sofia Coppola's film based on the exploits of a group of Hollywood teens who burgled celebrity homes has been denounced by one of the ringleaders
A member of the burglary gang that inspired the forthcoming crime drama The Bling Ring has labelled Sofia Coppola's film inaccurate and dishonest.
Alexis Neiers, one of the ringleaders in a group of Hollywood teens who broke into the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom between October 2008 and August 2009 to steal designer clothes, jewellery and cash, has been tweeting her disgust over the film's direction. Neiers, who is believed to be the inspiration for the character played by Emma Watson, took to Twitter after seeing the new trailer for Coppola's project.
"It's trashy and inaccurate..." she wrote on Twitter. "The truth will come out soon enough and I have no intention of seeing this film."
Neiers wrote on her...
A member of the burglary gang that inspired the forthcoming crime drama The Bling Ring has labelled Sofia Coppola's film inaccurate and dishonest.
Alexis Neiers, one of the ringleaders in a group of Hollywood teens who broke into the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom between October 2008 and August 2009 to steal designer clothes, jewellery and cash, has been tweeting her disgust over the film's direction. Neiers, who is believed to be the inspiration for the character played by Emma Watson, took to Twitter after seeing the new trailer for Coppola's project.
"It's trashy and inaccurate..." she wrote on Twitter. "The truth will come out soon enough and I have no intention of seeing this film."
Neiers wrote on her...
- 4/30/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Based on the theatrical trailer, it's easy to have high hopes for Sofia Coppola's upcoming film, "The Bling Ring." Not everyone, however, is excited.
Alexis Neiers, one of the real-life thieves who broke into the homes of celebrities -- including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom -- on which the film is based, apparently has no intention of watching Emma Watson portray her as a character named Nicki.
While responding to a tweet from Los Angeles Times writer, Amy Kaufman, Neiers wrote that after seeing the trailer, she thinks the film is "trashy and inaccurate."
In a series of tweets the former "Pretty Wild" star, wrote that the film is based on the accounts of Lapd Detective Brett Goodkin and Vanity Fair writer Nancy Joe Sales -- who penned the 2010 article that dubbed Neiers and her friends as "The Bling Ring" -- "2 people who are everything they accused us of being.
Alexis Neiers, one of the real-life thieves who broke into the homes of celebrities -- including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom -- on which the film is based, apparently has no intention of watching Emma Watson portray her as a character named Nicki.
While responding to a tweet from Los Angeles Times writer, Amy Kaufman, Neiers wrote that after seeing the trailer, she thinks the film is "trashy and inaccurate."
In a series of tweets the former "Pretty Wild" star, wrote that the film is based on the accounts of Lapd Detective Brett Goodkin and Vanity Fair writer Nancy Joe Sales -- who penned the 2010 article that dubbed Neiers and her friends as "The Bling Ring" -- "2 people who are everything they accused us of being.
- 4/24/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Between 2008 and 2009, a gaggle of fame-hungry teens and 20-somethings burglarized the homes of some of Hollywood’s hottest young stars, including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, and Paris Hilton. Now Sofia Coppola is bringing the story of the so-called “Bling Ring” to the big screen with a cast full of big names like Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga (sister of Vera), and reportedly Kirsten Dunst. The catch? Her film might hurt the Lapd’s real-life case against these young criminals.
The testimony of Detective Brett Goodkin, who played a pivotal role in bringing down the Bling Ring, will likely be crucial during the trials of Courtney Ames,...
The testimony of Detective Brett Goodkin, who played a pivotal role in bringing down the Bling Ring, will likely be crucial during the trials of Courtney Ames,...
- 4/20/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside Movies
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