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The Truth Behind Our Obsession With True Crime Stories
The faces of the Bling Ring are telling their broadside of the story.
In the trailer for Netflix's The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, some the culprits and the victims of the notorious burglaries that targeted Hollywood's elite are speaking out.
"I've ever been the benignant of idiosyncratic to kinda bash immoderate I had to get what I wanted," Bling Ring subordinate Nick Norgo (formerly Prugo), says successful the trailer. "But I ne'er thought successful my wildest dreams that it would scope the level of criminality that it did."
In 2016, Norgo pled blameworthy 2 counts of residential burglary and was sentenced to 2 years successful prison. He was released aft a twelvemonth for bully behaviour and clip served.
Alexis Neiers, who alleged she was lone contiguous for the burglary of Bloom's location successful July 2009, said she unfairly became 1 of the astir notorious faces of the group.
"They made maine the Bling Ring leader," she says successful the trailer. "It's conscionable wholly not based successful immoderate reality."
In May 2010, Neiers pleaded nary contest to residential burglary and was sentenced to six months successful region jail, a two-year suspended condemnation and 3 years of probation, arsenic good arsenic ordered to wage restitution to Bloom. She ended up spending 30 days successful jail.
Still, Neiers said she didn't enactment successful the docuseries with the volition of reclaiming her nationalist image.
"I didn't travel present to, like, prevention face," Neiers notes. "I came present to beryllium honest."
In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Neiers explained wherefore she felt similar the infinitesimal was close to enactment successful the series.
"At this clip successful my life, I was acceptable to beryllium down and person this conversation, which obviously, wasn't an casual happening to do," she revealed, "but I felt similar it was the close happening to do. And overall, I'm truly blessed with it."
Neiers hopes viewers find powerfulness successful her quality to code her analyzable past caput on.
"The bully quality is that we tin recover," she said. "We tin ain our stories—even the challenging, messy parts that astir radical privation to tally distant from—and that that doesn't person to interruption america and it doesn't person to beryllium this atrocious thing."
During their astir year-long spree, members of the Bling Ring burglarized the homes of the immoderate of the astir celebrated radical connected the planet, including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom. In total, they stole much than $3 cardinal successful cash, clothes, jewelry and different idiosyncratic items.
The bid besides features an interview with Audrina Patridge, whose Hollywood Hills location was burglarized successful February 2009. In the trailer, Patridge says it felt similar the Bling Ring members "went buying successful my closet."
"After my location was breached into," Audrina says, "I was the astir terrified I've ever been successful my full life."
All 3 episodes of The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist premiere Sept. 21 connected Netflix.
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