When the stars of Tinseltown are away, the real life burglars will come out to play.
Last night, all the stars out to be glamorous in Cannes for the 66th Annual Film Festival hit the red carpet for the premiere of Sofia Coppola’s new film The Bling Ring. The film focuses on a group of fame-obsessed teenagers who use the internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to rob their homes…meanwhile, life was imitating art as a jewelry heist was in play.
According to reports from the Associated Press, thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry.
The apparently well-planned robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of an employee of Chopard.
Chopard has loaned jewelry to A-list stars who walk on the festival’s famed red carpet under rapid-fire flashes of photographers’ cameras. “The jewels stolen are not part of the collection of jewels that are worn by actresses during the Cannes film festival.”
The jewels were taken from the hotel of a Chopard employee who was miles away at another hotel event and later returned to the damage.
Chopard has been the jewelry sponsor for Cannes for the last 15 years and travels to the event with a 40-person team for loaning jewels to celebrities.
The latest person to wear their jewels was model Cara Delevingne, who donned the ice at the Opening Ceremony paired with a Burberry dress.
