Audrina Patridge is pictured attending the grand opening of SOL Mexican Cocina at the Forum Shops at Caesars on February 02, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Photo:David Becker/Getty
David Becker/Getty
The actresses realized the connection they shared during Monday’s episode ofBroad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen, as Patridge, 38, and Bilson, 42, shared their experiences in greater depth than ever before.
“They took trash bags of stuff,” Patridge shared. “They knew I was at anOscarsparty, and they knew that because I tweeted it.”
(L-R) Rachel Bilson and Audrina Patridge.Paras Griffin/Getty; Lester Cohen/Getty
Paras Griffin/Getty; Lester Cohen/Getty
The reality star had “just got back from Australia. I co-hosted the VMAs or something out there. So everything was still packed, got home, changed and then I went to the party and came home and I was like, ‘Am I losing my mind?’ My suitcase is gone, my laptop, everything is off my bed. Like, what is going on?”
“And then I went in my closet and I called my sister and I was like, ‘If I open my jewelry box and stuff is gone, someone is in my house,’” she continued. “And I opened it, everything was gone. And so that’s when I locked myself in [the closet], ‘cause I didn’t know if they were still in the house.”
She was “afraid to get off the phone, so I had my brother-in-law call 911 while I was on speaker,” she told Bilson. Ultimately, Patridge was able to help identify the perpetrators because she had cameras on her property that caught the faces of Nick Prugo and Rachel Lee.
Patridge recalled that her “back door was open” as she detailed how Prugo and Lee got in, noting that they pair also left with “suitcases of stuff.”
“I have a gate and no one can get through there but I guess the electricity or something went off and on.”
The Bling Ring mugshots: Alexis Neiers Haines, Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Diana Tamayo, Courtney Ames.LAPD
Patridge and Bilson both said that they got “nothing” returned to them after falling victim to the Bling Ring.
“I didn’t even get money back. Nothing for anything,” Partridge said. “They took stuff from my aunt, like vintage Chanel watches and rings.”
Bilson said added, “That’s the part that’s like, you guys! You were kids, but it was so f—ed up.”
After finding out the thieves were “two young kids, it took a lot of the anxiety off,” Patridge admitted.
Audrina Patridge is pictured attending the season 4 finale of The Hills at Tavern on the Green on December 22, 2008 in New York City.Joe Kohen/WireImage
Joe Kohen/WireImage
Regardless, though, both she andThe O.C.star agreed on the “invasiveness” of the robberies. “I remember I went and stayed with my mom in Orange County for a while. I was like, I don’t wanna be in that house,” Partridge said.
“I was out of town when it happened to me,” the podcast co-host recalled. “They went into my house five different times. I guess my door — like my back door — was unlocked.”
Like Patridge, “clothes and shoes and bags and jewelry” were taken from Bilson’s home, though it was her mom who ultimately noticed it.
“And my mom’s first engagement ring was taken,” Bilson said. “You know, that stuff is like… C’mon you guys…. Just give me the sentimental [stuff]. My mom still talks about it."
Bilson also talked to Patridge about her 2022 interview with two of the members of the Bling Ring, including that Lee, who was one of the thieves who stole fromThe Hills: New Beginningsstar, said of her house: “‘I got so comfortable, I pooped in her bathroom.’ ”
“I was like, ‘That’s almost the most offensive part,’” Bilson said of the gross revelation about her former home.
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Unfortunately, theHart of Dixiestar’s experiences with being robbed didn’t stop with the apprehension of the Bling Ring in 2009.
Members of the Bling Ring stole roughly $3 million in cash and belongings from their celebrity victims. Lee, the group’s ringleader, was sentenced to four years in prison but only served one year and four months.
HBO also released a documentary, titledThe Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring, in 2023, featuring Lee speaking out for the first time. A Netflix docuseries, titledThe Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, was released, as well, in 2022.
Former memberAlexis Neierspreviously filmed the aftermath of her ties to the Bling Ring for her family’s short-lived reality series,Pretty Wild, which partly showed the subsequent trial and featuredher infamous call with then-Vanity Fairjournalist Nancy Jo Sales.
source: people.com
