Kim Kardashian pleaded for her life during Paris robbery, her stylist tells court

The nighttime equipped robbers tied up Kim Kardashian and forced her to manus implicit jewels worthy millions of dollars near her traumatised and changed her beingness for ever, her champion person and manner stylist told a Paris court.

Speaking for the archetypal clip since the 2016 onslaught successful Paris, Simone Harouche said she thought the American TV prima was being raped and that they would some dice erstwhile she was woken from her slumber successful the aboriginal hours by the dependable of Kardashian’s terrified screams.

Harouche, 45, hid successful her bath and tried to rise the alarm erstwhile the men broke into their luxury edifice duplex successful the aboriginal hours.

“I’ve worked for Kim, I person besides been friends with Kim for a agelong time. I cognize her precise well, I cognize her sounds, her mannerisms, erstwhile she’s happy, erstwhile she’s much serious. We’ve been friends since we were small girls,” she said.

“So erstwhile I heard this dependable it was precise antithetic and it woke maine up retired of my slumber due to the fact that it was dependable that I had ne'er heard from Kim. It was terror. What I heard specifically: ‘I person babies and I request to live,’ this is what she kept saying. ‘Take everything – I request to live’.”

Harouche was successful tears astatine 1 constituent arsenic she testified that she feared she would ne'er spot her children, past aged 2 and four, again.

“I thought they were coming for maine adjacent and I was precise acrophobic of what was happening to my person upstairs. I had nary thought what was going connected and I was frightened she was being raped oregon violated. I thought the worst.”

Harouche said Kardashian, whose ankles had been taped, came hopping down the stairs of the two-storey flat to find her aft the gunmen near with an estimated $10m (£7.5m) jewellery including the 18.9-carat diamond engagement ringing from Kardashian’s past husband, rapper Kanye West, worthy an estimated $4m (£3m).

“That’s the benignant of idiosyncratic Kim is and I’m the benignant of idiosyncratic to hide. She’s the benignant of idiosyncratic to instrumentality attraction of someone,” she told the court.

She added: “To spot my person with her feet taped and her bathrobe, a precise airy robe with thing nether it, each messed up and pulled I evidently thought she could person been raped oregon precise violated. She was beside herself; I’ve ne'er seen her similar this before. She conscionable was screaming and kept saying: ‘We request to get retired of here. We request help. What are we going to bash if they travel back? We whitethorn request to leap retired the model oregon fell successful the archetypal floor’ … She was conscionable thinking: ‘How are we going to beryllium safe? How are we going to survive’?”

She said some women had had post-traumatic accent upset and that Kardashian had suffered a life-changing nonaccomplishment of idiosyncratic freedom.

“She was precise escaped astatine the clip and we ne'er thought being successful our edifice country meant that we should ever fearfulness for our safety.”

She added: “I deliberation she went to therapy for a agelong clip besides aft this happened.”

Asked whether Kardashian had taken risks by flaunting her wealthiness and whereabouts connected societal media, she said: “Just due to the fact that a pistillate wears jewellery that doesn’t marque her a target. That’s similar saying due to the fact that a pistillate wears a abbreviated skirt that she deserves to beryllium raped.

“I enactment with a batch of celebrities and nary of my clients feels they shouldn’t deterioration thing due to the fact that they mightiness beryllium robbed. That’s portion of the concern of entertainment.”

A radical of men, immoderate of them aged and nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” by French media, are connected proceedings successful Paris, charged with robbing jewels worthy millions of euros from the American world TV prima erstwhile she was successful the French superior for manner week successful 2016.

Ten suspects, whose ages scope from 35 to 78, are connected proceedings until 23 May. Some are accused of aiding successful the organisation of the robbery. Eight of the accused contradict immoderate involvement.

Kardashian is expected astatine the proceedings connected Tuesday afternoon. The world prima is acceptable to “confront” her attackers, her lawyers said past week.

“She is committed to attending successful idiosyncratic the proceedings and to confronting those who attacked her. She volition bash truthful with dignity and courage,” her French lawyers Leonor Hennerick and Jonathan Mattout told AFP.