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Jewel Heists are Such a Drag

12/05/08 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

Not since Brigitte Nielsen in Beverly Hills Cop 2 has their been such a bold jewelry robbery carried out by men in drag as that which occurred earlier today at the Harry Winston store located near Paris’ Champs-Elysees.

According to authorities, four robbers (two dressed as women) swept into the famed jeweler’s City of Lights location just round the corner from the police precinct and nabbed an array of luxury rings, necklaces and watches from the display cases. The heist itself looked to be a well researched affair as the robbers seemed to know where some of the secret stashes were and even knew the names of the staff people, prompting speculation that this could either be an inside job or that Harry Winston is the Cheers of jewelry stores. All in all, the crooks, who are suspected of being a highly professional Ocean’s Eleven-esque band of French or European bandits, got away with an estimated $102 million in loot, making it the largest thievery of it’s kind, perhaps in the history of France.

One shocked customer was overheard saying that this never would’ve happened if he had went to Jared.

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