WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.917 --> 00:00:01.918 [TV static drones] 2 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:05.005 [bright tone] 3 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 4 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:25.650 --> 00:00:29.154 [keyboard clacking] 6 00:00:37.495 --> 00:00:39.539 - [sighs] 7 00:00:47.047 --> 00:00:48.673 Are you ready for this? 8 00:01:34.678 --> 00:01:37.555 [somber music] 9 00:01:37.639 --> 00:01:44.145 ♪ ♪ 10 00:01:44.229 --> 00:01:47.357 Most people-- if they saw me on the street, 11 00:01:47.399 --> 00:01:50.527 they'd be like, "Oh, she's just a normal person." 12 00:01:50.568 --> 00:01:53.488 But there's always the anxiety. 13 00:01:53.571 --> 00:01:57.534 What if they realize who I am... 14 00:01:57.575 --> 00:01:59.911 [tense music] 15 00:01:59.994 --> 00:02:02.414 And what I did with the Bling Ring? 16 00:02:03.206 --> 00:02:06.084 [heavy hip-hop music] 17 00:02:06.126 --> 00:02:12.215 ♪ ♪ 18 00:02:12.257 --> 00:02:16.594 - The Bling Ring is a media sensation. 19 00:02:16.678 --> 00:02:18.763 "The Bling Ring" is the name of a movie. 20 00:02:18.805 --> 00:02:20.348 - The Bling Ring was one of the first big 21 00:02:20.432 --> 00:02:21.933 social media crimes. 22 00:02:22.017 --> 00:02:26.104 It was juicy in all the right ways. 23 00:02:26.146 --> 00:02:28.732 The Bling Ring is a group of young people 24 00:02:28.773 --> 00:02:30.025 in their late teens: 25 00:02:30.108 --> 00:02:34.237 Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Alexis Neiers, Courtney Ames, 26 00:02:34.279 --> 00:02:36.448 Roy Lopez, and Diana Tamayo. 27 00:02:36.531 --> 00:02:37.866 - Wasn't there another guy, Ajar? 28 00:02:37.949 --> 00:02:39.701 - Yes. Johnny Ajar. 29 00:02:39.784 --> 00:02:44.372 In the late 2000s, these kids robbed a bunch of celebrities 30 00:02:44.456 --> 00:02:46.958 that they wanted to emulate. 31 00:02:47.042 --> 00:02:51.171 [cameras clicking] 32 00:02:51.254 --> 00:02:52.922 - Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom, 33 00:02:52.964 --> 00:02:54.966 Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton. 34 00:02:55.050 --> 00:02:58.678 There are more--at least ten-- 35 00:02:58.762 --> 00:03:00.972 at least ten homes. 36 00:03:01.014 --> 00:03:03.516 - They took $2 million from Paris Hilton's alone 37 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:07.062 in jewelry, $500,000 from Orlando Bloom. 38 00:03:07.145 --> 00:03:08.146 [reporters clamoring] 39 00:03:08.229 --> 00:03:09.314 The Bling Ring was a reality show 40 00:03:09.356 --> 00:03:10.482 in and of itself. 41 00:03:10.523 --> 00:03:14.152 - They were almost like these young stars themselves, 42 00:03:14.235 --> 00:03:15.653 except for one of them. 43 00:03:15.737 --> 00:03:19.074 - Rachel Lee kept a much lower profile. 44 00:03:19.157 --> 00:03:20.909 - Rachel never gave an interview. 45 00:03:20.992 --> 00:03:22.994 Everyone else has been like, "She was the mastermind. 46 00:03:23.036 --> 00:03:23.995 She was the ringleader." 47 00:03:24.079 --> 00:03:25.205 But she has herself 48 00:03:25.288 --> 00:03:28.333 just not talked about it. 49 00:03:30.168 --> 00:03:32.003 - I don't know what happened to Rachel Lee. 50 00:03:32.087 --> 00:03:34.673 - She's an enigma to me. 51 00:03:43.682 --> 00:03:46.309 - [sighs] 52 00:03:53.858 --> 00:03:54.901 [sighs] 53 00:03:58.405 --> 00:04:00.699 Hello, everybody. 54 00:04:00.782 --> 00:04:03.410 - So basically, there's a Hollywood version 55 00:04:03.493 --> 00:04:05.203 of the story, then there's a real version. 56 00:04:05.245 --> 00:04:06.746 - Mm-hmm. 57 00:04:06.830 --> 00:04:08.081 There sure is. 58 00:04:08.164 --> 00:04:10.750 There sure is. 59 00:04:10.834 --> 00:04:16.381 I don't resonate with that Hollywood version at all, 60 00:04:16.464 --> 00:04:19.801 but I could see how it was quite entertaining 61 00:04:19.884 --> 00:04:23.930 for the world to see the story that way. 62 00:04:24.014 --> 00:04:26.307 It was more of a storm for me. 63 00:04:26.391 --> 00:04:30.520 So when I think about it, it's like-- 64 00:04:30.562 --> 00:04:34.232 it's so simple for me to sit here and tell you, like, 65 00:04:34.315 --> 00:04:36.443 I could never go into somebody's house, 66 00:04:36.526 --> 00:04:38.319 I could never steal anything from anybody, 67 00:04:38.403 --> 00:04:39.904 like, I would never hurt somebody. 68 00:04:39.988 --> 00:04:41.614 Like, no. 69 00:04:41.698 --> 00:04:44.242 But back then, that wasn't the truth. 70 00:04:44.284 --> 00:04:47.579 So I was hurting people, like, by stealing. 71 00:04:47.662 --> 00:04:51.875 And everything that we do has a consequence. 72 00:04:51.916 --> 00:04:54.419 And the consequence that I have to deal with 73 00:04:54.461 --> 00:04:59.758 is that in history, my name is-- 74 00:04:59.799 --> 00:05:02.093 was kind of dragged through the dirt. 75 00:05:02.135 --> 00:05:05.180 But who created that? I did. 76 00:05:05.263 --> 00:05:06.973 I did. 77 00:05:07.057 --> 00:05:09.726 - You probably never heard of Rachel Lee. 78 00:05:09.768 --> 00:05:12.520 Yes, but she's paying the price for leading the Bling Ring. 79 00:05:12.604 --> 00:05:15.523 - Lee is the mastermind behind several burglaries. 80 00:05:15.607 --> 00:05:18.109 - Rachel Lee was described by many people 81 00:05:18.193 --> 00:05:20.612 as this fashion icon in her school. 82 00:05:20.653 --> 00:05:23.573 She loved nice clothes and nice things. 83 00:05:23.615 --> 00:05:27.077 - She was portrayed as a charismatic leader, 84 00:05:27.118 --> 00:05:29.454 a super popular girl. 85 00:05:29.537 --> 00:05:32.290 - Most revealing may be Lee's reported reaction 86 00:05:32.332 --> 00:05:33.416 when arrested. 87 00:05:33.458 --> 00:05:36.878 - She supposedly was told something about Lindsay Lohan, 88 00:05:36.961 --> 00:05:38.630 and she's very upset about this. 89 00:05:38.672 --> 00:05:41.508 Rachel Lee stops and says-- 90 00:05:41.591 --> 00:05:43.802 - Really? What did Lindsay say? 91 00:05:43.885 --> 00:05:47.055 - She was reported to be, like, obsessed with fame 92 00:05:47.097 --> 00:05:50.058 and wanted to be like Mean Girls. 93 00:05:50.141 --> 00:05:53.561 - ♪ You can change your life if you want to ♪ 94 00:05:53.645 --> 00:05:55.647 ♪ Change your clothes ♪ 95 00:05:55.689 --> 00:05:58.525 - Lee and her attorney refused our requests for an interview, 96 00:05:58.608 --> 00:06:00.568 but Lee told one of our producers in court 97 00:06:00.652 --> 00:06:02.737 she has no regrets. 98 00:06:08.993 --> 00:06:10.286 - Hello? 99 00:06:10.328 --> 00:06:12.872 Hey. What's up? 100 00:06:12.956 --> 00:06:14.833 I'm at home. 101 00:06:16.501 --> 00:06:19.170 Yesterday? 102 00:06:19.254 --> 00:06:20.547 Oh, yeah. 103 00:06:20.630 --> 00:06:22.924 Well, my mom believed the whole thing. 104 00:06:23.008 --> 00:06:25.969 Yeah, but then, you know, like that whole thing? 105 00:06:26.011 --> 00:06:28.888 My mom found out about it, and she got really mad at me. 106 00:06:28.972 --> 00:06:31.599 She was like, "Why didn't you tell me?", blah blah. 107 00:06:31.683 --> 00:06:33.601 I was like, "Oh, my God." 108 00:06:33.685 --> 00:06:36.479 My parents divorced when I was one. 109 00:06:36.521 --> 00:06:39.315 And when I was a kid, 110 00:06:39.357 --> 00:06:42.318 my mom didn't get off work until 6:30, 111 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.863 so after school, 112 00:06:44.946 --> 00:06:48.950 I would always snoop through my mom's stuff. 113 00:06:53.204 --> 00:06:58.710 There was one particular day that I was looking 114 00:06:58.752 --> 00:07:01.838 through all of, like, her purses, 115 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:06.009 and then there was, like, a briefcase. 116 00:07:06.051 --> 00:07:08.720 I, like, reached my hand in, and I, like, brought out 117 00:07:08.762 --> 00:07:10.305 a fresh stack of hundreds. 118 00:07:10.388 --> 00:07:12.766 It was, like, fresh. 119 00:07:12.849 --> 00:07:16.561 And I just remember, like, sliding off that crispy bill. 120 00:07:16.644 --> 00:07:18.313 I just, like, slid it off, 121 00:07:18.396 --> 00:07:20.148 and I was, like, "She'll never notice. 122 00:07:20.231 --> 00:07:21.524 Like, it's just one." 123 00:07:21.566 --> 00:07:23.568 [moody electronic music] 124 00:07:23.610 --> 00:07:27.072 That part of me has always been inside of me, 125 00:07:27.113 --> 00:07:30.950 this, like, "Dang, I'm sly. 126 00:07:31.034 --> 00:07:34.412 Like, I'm-- I'm a master manipulator." 127 00:07:34.454 --> 00:07:35.997 - ♪ Hey ♪ 128 00:07:36.081 --> 00:07:41.711 ♪ ♪ 129 00:07:41.753 --> 00:07:44.714 - I had this insatiable desire 130 00:07:44.756 --> 00:07:48.551 to have as much as I could have. 131 00:07:48.635 --> 00:07:52.180 But, I mean, that was kind of the energy back then. 132 00:07:52.263 --> 00:07:54.641 [upbeat rock music] 133 00:07:54.724 --> 00:07:55.809 - How are you, Paris? - Paris! 134 00:07:55.892 --> 00:07:57.435 - She spent $10,000, mind you. 135 00:07:57.477 --> 00:07:58.770 - $20,000. 136 00:08:00.563 --> 00:08:02.232 - Hi, Kim. 137 00:08:03.817 --> 00:08:05.944 - Did you enjoy their selection? 138 00:08:05.985 --> 00:08:10.615 - The 2000s was the era of the desire for fame. 139 00:08:10.657 --> 00:08:11.825 - Audrina, what's going on? 140 00:08:11.908 --> 00:08:13.785 - Get her, get her, get her! 141 00:08:13.827 --> 00:08:15.704 - Attention, love, money. 142 00:08:15.745 --> 00:08:18.748 - I went to the Swarovski store and I got this amazing purse. 143 00:08:18.790 --> 00:08:20.625 - It's the birth of this sort of new kind 144 00:08:20.709 --> 00:08:22.794 of celebrity reality TV 145 00:08:22.877 --> 00:08:25.505 where it seemed like anybody could be famous. 146 00:08:25.588 --> 00:08:27.507 Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, 147 00:08:27.590 --> 00:08:30.802 the Kardashians, The Hills. 148 00:08:30.844 --> 00:08:31.970 - Do you know why I'm mad at you? 149 00:08:32.053 --> 00:08:33.388 - Why, Lauren? - You know why I'm mad at you. 150 00:08:33.471 --> 00:08:34.472 - Why? - You know what you did! 151 00:08:34.514 --> 00:08:35.640 - Why? What did I do? 152 00:08:35.724 --> 00:08:37.767 - You didn't have to get, like, discovered 153 00:08:37.809 --> 00:08:39.310 and have any skills. 154 00:08:39.352 --> 00:08:40.895 You just had to, like, be outrageous 155 00:08:40.979 --> 00:08:43.106 and walk around in clothing, and then you'd be famous. 156 00:08:43.148 --> 00:08:45.108 - Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, 157 00:08:45.150 --> 00:08:46.985 who people still accuse of being famous 158 00:08:47.027 --> 00:08:48.778 for doing nothing-- I think, 159 00:08:48.820 --> 00:08:49.904 essentially what people 160 00:08:49.988 --> 00:08:52.157 really started out liking about them 161 00:08:52.198 --> 00:08:54.909 was that they were just showing their lives. 162 00:08:54.993 --> 00:08:56.453 - Let's look into our fridge. 163 00:08:56.494 --> 00:08:58.747 No, I did not redo this just for you guys. 164 00:08:58.830 --> 00:08:59.998 This is how it is at all times. 165 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:01.666 - Before then, we see a celebrity, 166 00:09:01.750 --> 00:09:03.585 we think of them as untouchable 167 00:09:03.668 --> 00:09:06.421 or almost like they live in a different world. 168 00:09:06.504 --> 00:09:08.131 - Now "Cribs" was on. Right? 169 00:09:08.173 --> 00:09:09.591 MTV "Cribs." 170 00:09:09.674 --> 00:09:10.925 - Yo. What up, man? 171 00:09:11.009 --> 00:09:13.762 It's your boy Bow Wow, welcoming y'all to my crib. 172 00:09:13.845 --> 00:09:15.555 You know what I mean? - I'm Mariah Carey. 173 00:09:15.638 --> 00:09:17.015 Welcome to my crib. 174 00:09:17.057 --> 00:09:19.225 Come on in. This is the shoe room. 175 00:09:19.309 --> 00:09:22.354 The style that I favor would be a high stiletto. 176 00:09:22.437 --> 00:09:23.730 [laughs] 177 00:09:23.813 --> 00:09:26.191 - Oh, Frankie invited us to his birthday party 178 00:09:26.274 --> 00:09:27.942 at Les Deux tonight. 179 00:09:28.026 --> 00:09:31.780 - Now it's really easy to be close to a celebrity. 180 00:09:31.863 --> 00:09:34.199 - On "The Hills," they would go to a club called Les Deux. 181 00:09:34.282 --> 00:09:37.702 Like, you started to see places like Urth Cafe, 182 00:09:37.744 --> 00:09:39.371 which is just like 183 00:09:39.412 --> 00:09:40.789 an average place to go get coffee, 184 00:09:40.872 --> 00:09:43.083 glorified on a show like "Entourage," 185 00:09:43.166 --> 00:09:44.709 where people would go repeatedly. 186 00:09:44.751 --> 00:09:46.711 And for those six months or a year, 187 00:09:46.753 --> 00:09:48.254 it was, like, the place to go. 188 00:09:48.338 --> 00:09:50.965 And people were literally making pilgrimages 189 00:09:51.049 --> 00:09:52.592 to go to Kitson, to go to Les Deux, 190 00:09:52.676 --> 00:09:54.886 to go to Urth Cafe. 191 00:09:54.928 --> 00:09:57.263 And, of course, there was Calabasas. 192 00:09:57.347 --> 00:10:00.225 [spacey music] 193 00:10:00.308 --> 00:10:03.061 ♪ ♪ 194 00:10:03.103 --> 00:10:06.398 - ♪ Best days in the Valley ♪ 195 00:10:06.481 --> 00:10:08.608 - Calabasas is where I grew up. 196 00:10:10.944 --> 00:10:13.238 - Calabasas is kind of on the northern side 197 00:10:13.321 --> 00:10:14.614 of the county. 198 00:10:14.698 --> 00:10:16.700 Kim Kardashian and her family moved out there, 199 00:10:16.741 --> 00:10:18.493 and that's when it kind of hit the map, I think. 200 00:10:18.576 --> 00:10:19.577 But it's just known 201 00:10:19.619 --> 00:10:21.329 as a quiet, upper-class neighborhood 202 00:10:21.413 --> 00:10:25.083 with good schools, and it's not really known for-- 203 00:10:25.125 --> 00:10:29.254 at least on our map-- a lot of criminal activity. 204 00:10:29.337 --> 00:10:32.257 [upbeat music] 205 00:10:32.298 --> 00:10:34.259 ♪ ♪ 206 00:10:34.342 --> 00:10:35.927 - I'm from Calabasas. 207 00:10:37.762 --> 00:10:41.474 Growing up in Calabasas was an exercise 208 00:10:41.558 --> 00:10:46.187 in seeing people on their 16th birthdays 209 00:10:46.271 --> 00:10:49.774 wake up and see that Daddy had rolled in 210 00:10:49.816 --> 00:10:53.111 a 320i black BMW for them. 211 00:10:56.698 --> 00:10:58.783 - I think, like, the worst car, 212 00:10:58.825 --> 00:11:01.745 like, in general in Calabasas, like, in the parking lot, 213 00:11:01.786 --> 00:11:03.455 was, like, a Jetta. 214 00:11:03.538 --> 00:11:10.670 ♪ ♪ 215 00:11:25.435 --> 00:11:27.479 - [laughs] Rachel's a dork. 216 00:11:29.731 --> 00:11:31.024 Look at her. 217 00:11:33.735 --> 00:11:35.320 Here's a car. 218 00:11:37.238 --> 00:11:39.449 Ooh, it's a BMW, baby! 219 00:11:39.491 --> 00:11:41.868 - That's so rude! - Why? 220 00:11:46.456 --> 00:11:48.124 Oh, Rachel, guess what? 221 00:11:48.166 --> 00:11:49.834 I was at my friend Matt's house, okay? 222 00:11:49.876 --> 00:11:51.961 And Leo was there. 223 00:11:52.003 --> 00:11:53.838 - When? - Yesterday. 224 00:11:53.922 --> 00:11:55.048 I was talking to him. 225 00:11:55.131 --> 00:11:56.299 I was, like, "Hey, do you know Rachel Lee?" 226 00:11:56.341 --> 00:11:58.301 He's like, "Yeah, Rachel? She's really, really annoying, 227 00:11:58.343 --> 00:11:59.886 and, like, she thinks she's so all that." 228 00:11:59.969 --> 00:12:01.680 I was like, "What?" - Leo? 229 00:12:01.763 --> 00:12:03.682 - Yeah. Leo said that. 230 00:12:03.765 --> 00:12:04.974 And I was like, "Um, okay. 231 00:12:05.016 --> 00:12:06.309 No, not that Rachel then." 232 00:12:06.351 --> 00:12:07.310 He goes, "Rachel Lee. 233 00:12:07.352 --> 00:12:08.520 She's kind of Chinese?" 234 00:12:08.561 --> 00:12:10.814 I was like, "Yeah. That Rachel." 235 00:12:12.607 --> 00:12:15.485 [quiet discordant music] 236 00:12:15.527 --> 00:12:22.325 ♪ ♪ 237 00:12:22.367 --> 00:12:25.370 - Calabasas is a predominantly white town. 238 00:12:25.453 --> 00:12:29.040 If you were not white, then you were an outsider. 239 00:12:29.082 --> 00:12:31.626 - I was so ashamed of being Korean, 240 00:12:31.710 --> 00:12:34.421 and I would get, like, so flattered 241 00:12:34.504 --> 00:12:38.049 when people would say, "Oh, are you half Korean?" 242 00:12:38.091 --> 00:12:44.764 ♪ ♪ 243 00:12:44.848 --> 00:12:48.101 I wish I was pretty like Courtney. 244 00:12:51.771 --> 00:12:54.065 Even the way that Korean people looked, 245 00:12:54.107 --> 00:12:55.358 because I was, like, all the time 246 00:12:55.400 --> 00:12:56.693 with, like, non-Koreans. 247 00:12:56.776 --> 00:12:58.987 And I would think sometimes, "Am I deformed?" 248 00:13:00.447 --> 00:13:07.412 ♪ ♪ 249 00:13:09.873 --> 00:13:11.750 I never actually knew 250 00:13:11.833 --> 00:13:13.418 the amount of money that we had, 251 00:13:13.501 --> 00:13:16.921 but through material things, I could see that we weren't, 252 00:13:17.005 --> 00:13:18.506 like, super-rich, we weren't super-poor, 253 00:13:18.590 --> 00:13:20.216 just, like, middle-class. 254 00:13:20.258 --> 00:13:23.553 But compared to where my friends lived, 255 00:13:23.636 --> 00:13:26.306 my house was the smallest house. 256 00:13:26.389 --> 00:13:31.019 The mansions that their parents have were huge, 257 00:13:31.102 --> 00:13:33.438 and the mom was, like, the hot mom 258 00:13:33.521 --> 00:13:36.399 who was, like, dressed in what we were wearing, too. 259 00:13:36.441 --> 00:13:39.944 The kids also kind of followed that suit. 260 00:13:40.028 --> 00:13:42.155 And so I was always asking for, 261 00:13:42.238 --> 00:13:43.948 "Oh, can I please have this Juicy Couture purse?" 262 00:13:43.990 --> 00:13:46.534 Or "Can I please have this Tiffany's necklace?" 263 00:13:46.618 --> 00:13:49.579 Because I have this-- 264 00:13:49.621 --> 00:13:53.166 I struggle with FOMO really badly, 265 00:13:53.249 --> 00:13:56.294 and so I wanted my mom to always buy me 266 00:13:56.378 --> 00:13:57.629 something designer. 267 00:13:57.671 --> 00:13:59.297 I think it made me feel rich. 268 00:13:59.339 --> 00:14:03.760 It made me feel I'm part of this material world, 269 00:14:03.802 --> 00:14:05.637 like I can show up, too. 270 00:14:10.308 --> 00:14:13.186 When I got into middle school 271 00:14:13.269 --> 00:14:16.022 and I was just, like, my dorky little self, 272 00:14:16.106 --> 00:14:18.108 and I would see all these girls that were, like, 273 00:14:18.149 --> 00:14:22.320 so cool looking and so hot and fun, 274 00:14:22.404 --> 00:14:25.365 I was like, "Nobody ever tells me I'm hot and fun." 275 00:14:28.493 --> 00:14:32.163 I felt kind of, like, frustrated with my family. 276 00:14:32.247 --> 00:14:35.750 My mom--she's a lawyer, a criminal defense attorney. 277 00:14:35.834 --> 00:14:37.627 And then my father-- 278 00:14:37.669 --> 00:14:39.796 he went into accounting. 279 00:14:39.838 --> 00:14:44.009 And for my parents, going to university 280 00:14:44.050 --> 00:14:45.844 and doing really good in school 281 00:14:45.927 --> 00:14:48.304 was extremely important. 282 00:14:48.346 --> 00:14:50.890 That was heavily instilled into me. 283 00:14:50.974 --> 00:14:52.642 You need to go to university. 284 00:14:52.684 --> 00:14:54.185 You need to take SATs. 285 00:14:54.269 --> 00:14:57.647 You need to go to Hagwon, which is like SAT prep. 286 00:14:57.689 --> 00:14:59.190 And I was sick of it. 287 00:14:59.274 --> 00:15:00.817 I didn't want to be that anymore. 288 00:15:00.859 --> 00:15:02.694 I was like, "I wanna be a badass." 289 00:15:02.736 --> 00:15:04.738 - ♪ Say my name ♪ 290 00:15:04.821 --> 00:15:06.865 ♪ Don't want to talk back ♪ 291 00:15:06.906 --> 00:15:09.367 ♪ I take your place ♪ 292 00:15:09.451 --> 00:15:10.744 ♪ I'm in control ♪ 293 00:15:10.827 --> 00:15:12.871 ♪ Bye bye, kiss you goodbye ♪ 294 00:15:12.912 --> 00:15:14.539 - [growls] 295 00:15:14.581 --> 00:15:17.167 I wanna prove I am not afraid of anything. 296 00:15:17.208 --> 00:15:18.501 [growls] 297 00:15:18.543 --> 00:15:23.048 That I'm down for whatever, especially drugs. 298 00:15:26.009 --> 00:15:31.348 One day, when I was 14, I was at a pool... 299 00:15:31.389 --> 00:15:33.016 [tranquil music] 300 00:15:33.058 --> 00:15:37.896 And this boy that I had met held out his hand, 301 00:15:37.937 --> 00:15:39.689 and there was a bunch of pills. 302 00:15:39.731 --> 00:15:42.692 Some of them were Xanax, and some of them were ecstasy. 303 00:15:42.734 --> 00:15:44.778 And he said, "Do you want one?" 304 00:15:44.861 --> 00:15:46.279 And I was like, "What's that one?" 305 00:15:46.363 --> 00:15:47.989 And it had, like, four little-- 306 00:15:48.073 --> 00:15:49.657 that's what you call, like, a bar. 307 00:15:49.741 --> 00:15:52.118 And he was like, "Oh, try it." 308 00:15:54.204 --> 00:15:58.625 And he broke me off a quarter, 309 00:15:58.708 --> 00:16:01.294 and I had it... 310 00:16:01.378 --> 00:16:05.048 ♪ ♪ 311 00:16:05.090 --> 00:16:07.175 And then I didn't have a care in the world. 312 00:16:07.258 --> 00:16:09.469 There was no worries for me. 313 00:16:09.552 --> 00:16:15.684 ♪ ♪ 314 00:16:15.767 --> 00:16:17.435 When I had experienced Xanax, 315 00:16:17.477 --> 00:16:20.980 it was, like, a catalyst for a lot of things. 316 00:16:21.064 --> 00:16:23.650 [driving electronic music] 317 00:16:23.733 --> 00:16:25.235 It took away my emotion, 318 00:16:25.276 --> 00:16:27.237 and because I didn't care, 319 00:16:27.278 --> 00:16:30.407 I could act the way that I've always wanted to... 320 00:16:30.448 --> 00:16:33.952 ♪ ♪ 321 00:16:33.993 --> 00:16:35.537 And I wanted to party. 322 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:42.544 ♪ ♪ 323 00:16:43.795 --> 00:16:47.007 [laughter] 324 00:16:56.141 --> 00:16:58.101 I was a follower 325 00:16:58.143 --> 00:17:00.478 that didn't want to look like a follower. 326 00:17:00.562 --> 00:17:04.524 I wanted to look like a leader, but my true self, 327 00:17:04.607 --> 00:17:07.110 my true nature, I'm-- 328 00:17:07.152 --> 00:17:08.611 I'm more of a follower. 329 00:17:14.743 --> 00:17:18.413 At school, this certain girl-- 330 00:17:18.496 --> 00:17:22.042 she was the first person who introduced cocaine to me, 331 00:17:22.125 --> 00:17:24.169 Parliament cigarettes to me. 332 00:17:24.210 --> 00:17:26.171 She was a really cool girl. 333 00:17:26.212 --> 00:17:27.964 I honestly wanted to be her. 334 00:17:28.006 --> 00:17:29.174 I really did. 335 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:36.806 She and I went into the locker room. 336 00:17:36.848 --> 00:17:39.351 We saw, like, two pairs of Uggs, 337 00:17:39.434 --> 00:17:42.479 and we dumped our shoes, and we put on the Uggs, 338 00:17:42.520 --> 00:17:45.315 and we walked out of the locker room. 339 00:17:45.357 --> 00:17:47.901 And then her and I were, like, walking around campus. 340 00:17:47.984 --> 00:17:49.778 We were like, "Oh, cool, we have Uggs now. 341 00:17:49.861 --> 00:17:50.862 Like, cool." 342 00:17:50.945 --> 00:17:52.989 All of a sudden, 343 00:17:53.031 --> 00:17:55.033 these two girls just started, like, 344 00:17:55.075 --> 00:17:57.202 beelining it towards us, and they were like, 345 00:17:57.285 --> 00:17:58.953 "Those are our Uggs." 346 00:17:59.037 --> 00:18:01.122 And we were like, "No, they're not." 347 00:18:01.206 --> 00:18:02.707 And she was like, "Lift up your foot." 348 00:18:02.791 --> 00:18:04.000 And I was like, "No." 349 00:18:04.042 --> 00:18:05.210 And she was like, "Lift it up." 350 00:18:05.251 --> 00:18:06.961 And I was like, "No." 351 00:18:07.045 --> 00:18:08.338 And so they're like, "Okay, 352 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:09.464 we're gonna go tell on you then." 353 00:18:09.547 --> 00:18:11.132 And we're like, "Okay go, narc." 354 00:18:13.176 --> 00:18:14.886 I looked on the bottom of the Ugg, 355 00:18:14.969 --> 00:18:17.681 and it had, like, a heart drawn. 356 00:18:17.722 --> 00:18:19.974 And I remember, I was like, "Shit." 357 00:18:20.016 --> 00:18:21.226 I was like, "I gotta get rid of this," 358 00:18:21.309 --> 00:18:22.852 so I, like, took a chunk out of it. 359 00:18:24.604 --> 00:18:26.940 They were calling our names over the speaker. 360 00:18:27.023 --> 00:18:29.234 "Come to the office." 361 00:18:29.275 --> 00:18:30.735 - Your presence is required. 362 00:18:30.819 --> 00:18:32.028 - This is the thing. 363 00:18:32.070 --> 00:18:35.115 I always had a problem with admitting that-- 364 00:18:35.198 --> 00:18:36.991 like, if I'm already in the lie, 365 00:18:37.075 --> 00:18:38.785 it's really hard for me-- 366 00:18:38.868 --> 00:18:40.245 it was hard for me to admit it. 367 00:18:40.286 --> 00:18:42.330 See, my friend-- she broke down instantly. 368 00:18:42.414 --> 00:18:43.540 She's like, "Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. 369 00:18:43.581 --> 00:18:45.041 "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 370 00:18:45.083 --> 00:18:46.418 Like, here's the shoes." 371 00:18:46.501 --> 00:18:49.337 But I--I'm so stubborn that I was like, 372 00:18:49.421 --> 00:18:52.257 "No, these are my Uggs. These are my Uggs." 373 00:18:54.467 --> 00:18:56.011 The counselor was like, "You know, 374 00:18:56.094 --> 00:18:57.387 "your friend already gave back the Uggs. 375 00:18:57.429 --> 00:18:58.930 Just give it back." You know? 376 00:18:59.014 --> 00:19:00.849 And I was like, "No. They're my Uggs." 377 00:19:02.434 --> 00:19:04.769 That was a big, big mistake. 378 00:19:06.771 --> 00:19:10.108 After that, I got kicked out of Calabasas, 379 00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:13.028 and I went to continuation school. 380 00:19:13.069 --> 00:19:15.280 - She went to Indian Hills High School. 381 00:19:15.363 --> 00:19:16.990 - The high school behind the high school. 382 00:19:17.073 --> 00:19:19.325 - It was the kind of thing where kids at Calabasas High 383 00:19:19.409 --> 00:19:21.494 would make fun of you if you were known 384 00:19:21.578 --> 00:19:22.954 to be going to Indian Hills. 385 00:19:22.996 --> 00:19:25.623 It was basically the last stop before dropping out. 386 00:19:25.665 --> 00:19:27.917 Or if you had major learning disabilities, 387 00:19:27.959 --> 00:19:29.961 you'd end up at Indian Hills. 388 00:19:30.045 --> 00:19:31.838 - And so for me, I was like, "All right, 389 00:19:31.921 --> 00:19:33.590 let's go down the rebel road." 390 00:19:33.631 --> 00:19:36.134 You know? Like, how can I make it 391 00:19:36.217 --> 00:19:38.428 the best rebel road I can make it? 392 00:19:38.470 --> 00:19:39.471 [scoffs] 393 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.769 - And that's when Nick Prugo entered the picture. 394 00:19:45.810 --> 00:19:47.103 - ♪ You wanna see me drop it, drop it ♪ 395 00:19:47.145 --> 00:19:48.438 ♪ Wanna pop it, pop it, pop it ♪ 396 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:51.149 ♪ Shake that ass on the floor ♪ 397 00:19:51.191 --> 00:19:53.526 - Nick Prugo came from a middle-class home 398 00:19:53.610 --> 00:19:57.280 and had a nice house in a nice part of the area. 399 00:19:57.322 --> 00:19:59.824 [sly music] 400 00:19:59.908 --> 00:20:02.911 - Nick Prugo said that he didn't have a lot of friends, 401 00:20:02.994 --> 00:20:04.579 he was looking to fit in. 402 00:20:04.662 --> 00:20:06.498 ♪ ♪ 403 00:20:06.581 --> 00:20:09.417 - Nick and I met on Myspace. 404 00:20:09.501 --> 00:20:12.504 He had opened up to me when he first reached out to me 405 00:20:12.545 --> 00:20:16.341 about how he felt like the weird kid. 406 00:20:16.383 --> 00:20:19.844 Nick was just realizing his sexuality or who he was. 407 00:20:19.928 --> 00:20:24.974 That was a big part of why I connected with him, 408 00:20:25.016 --> 00:20:28.520 because we were both not straight, 409 00:20:28.561 --> 00:20:30.980 and I kind of let him in with my friends. 410 00:20:31.022 --> 00:20:32.315 - How do I do this? 411 00:20:32.357 --> 00:20:33.608 - I don't know. Ask her. 412 00:20:33.692 --> 00:20:35.443 - How is it? 413 00:20:35.527 --> 00:20:39.656 - But he didn't really talk about his school to us much. 414 00:20:39.698 --> 00:20:41.366 I feel like he kind of felt embarrassed that Indian Hills 415 00:20:41.449 --> 00:20:42.701 was a continuation school. 416 00:20:46.496 --> 00:20:49.582 - The very first time I saw Nick, 417 00:20:49.666 --> 00:20:53.545 he actually didn't even see me yet. 418 00:20:53.586 --> 00:20:56.506 I was going to my next class, and then-- 419 00:20:56.548 --> 00:20:58.508 some of the teachers always keep their doors open, 420 00:20:58.550 --> 00:21:00.802 like, especially the art room, and he was in the art class. 421 00:21:00.885 --> 00:21:04.556 I looked inside, and I just saw him with his head down. 422 00:21:04.597 --> 00:21:06.725 And then it looked like there was, like, 423 00:21:06.766 --> 00:21:09.310 just a bunch of purple on his lip, 424 00:21:09.394 --> 00:21:11.855 and I remember thinking, "Well, that's strange." 425 00:21:13.231 --> 00:21:16.735 Later, I was, like, in class, and then, all of a sudden, 426 00:21:16.776 --> 00:21:19.195 you see, like, an ambulance pulling up. 427 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:22.157 Everyone's like, "What the heck is going on?" 428 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.451 "Oh, the new kid just got picked up 429 00:21:24.534 --> 00:21:27.537 because he's drunk at school." 430 00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:30.957 Some of the kids were saying really, like, mean words 431 00:21:31.041 --> 00:21:31.875 about his sexuality, 432 00:21:31.916 --> 00:21:33.668 which they couldn't even confirm. 433 00:21:33.752 --> 00:21:35.587 They were just talking about the way he was dressed. 434 00:21:35.670 --> 00:21:37.380 They were like, "Do you see what that kid was wearing? 435 00:21:37.422 --> 00:21:38.923 Like, he looks like a blah, blah, blah." 436 00:21:39.007 --> 00:21:40.133 You know? 437 00:21:40.216 --> 00:21:42.177 Just, like, bad, bad, bad words. 438 00:21:42.260 --> 00:21:43.261 - Ow. 439 00:21:43.345 --> 00:21:44.804 [kids laughing] 440 00:21:49.184 --> 00:21:50.977 - Oh, my God, there's a stick. 441 00:21:51.061 --> 00:21:52.145 - Kick him in the balls. 442 00:21:52.228 --> 00:21:53.730 Come on, let's kick him in the balls. 443 00:21:55.273 --> 00:21:56.649 - He would take the trolley home, 444 00:21:56.733 --> 00:22:00.195 and the trolley stop was on the way to my house, 445 00:22:00.278 --> 00:22:04.199 so we ended up walking together every day after school. 446 00:22:04.282 --> 00:22:05.408 So one day, I was like, 447 00:22:05.450 --> 00:22:06.618 "Do you wanna come over for a little bit, 448 00:22:06.701 --> 00:22:08.536 and then you can take the next trolley?" 449 00:22:08.620 --> 00:22:11.790 And he was like, "Yeah, I would love to." 450 00:22:11.873 --> 00:22:14.626 We go to my room, and on my desk, 451 00:22:14.709 --> 00:22:16.127 I would always, like, paint my nails, 452 00:22:16.169 --> 00:22:17.921 so I had, like, all these different nail polishes, 453 00:22:17.962 --> 00:22:20.840 and then also, I loved to, like, tag on my desk. 454 00:22:22.300 --> 00:22:25.303 He, like, started to paint his nails. 455 00:22:25.345 --> 00:22:28.056 [soft music] 456 00:22:28.139 --> 00:22:32.060 And I remember just feeling like, "Oh, this guy-- 457 00:22:32.143 --> 00:22:34.854 this kid is so, like, sweet." 458 00:22:36.856 --> 00:22:39.734 After that point, we were best friends. 459 00:22:39.818 --> 00:22:42.028 ♪ ♪ 460 00:22:42.112 --> 00:22:43.738 If we weren't together, we were on the phone. 461 00:22:43.822 --> 00:22:45.073 And if we weren't on the phone, we were texting. 462 00:22:45.156 --> 00:22:48.618 It was, like, always very codependent relationship. 463 00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:52.414 You know, Nick played a huge role for me, 464 00:22:52.497 --> 00:22:55.500 like, showing me a lot of new tips and tricks 465 00:22:55.583 --> 00:22:57.711 on how to be, like, a queen. 466 00:22:57.794 --> 00:23:00.380 - Oh, okay. - He taught me how to contour. 467 00:23:00.463 --> 00:23:02.549 I remember he kind of filled in my eyebrows 468 00:23:02.632 --> 00:23:05.552 and kind of did around my nose and my cheeks. 469 00:23:06.094 --> 00:23:08.346 And also, I would do the same for him, you know? 470 00:23:08.388 --> 00:23:09.848 And I'd be like, "Oh, your hair looks cute 471 00:23:09.931 --> 00:23:12.392 "when it's skater-boy sideswept, like that. 472 00:23:12.475 --> 00:23:15.603 Like, yeah, put that hat on like that." 473 00:23:15.687 --> 00:23:19.232 It was super pure at first. 474 00:23:19.315 --> 00:23:21.985 It was pure, and it was sweet. 475 00:23:22.027 --> 00:23:24.195 We felt like we were 476 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:27.323 very special people in this world. 477 00:23:27.365 --> 00:23:29.492 And I finally get to experience 478 00:23:29.534 --> 00:23:30.869 where I fit in. 479 00:23:36.750 --> 00:23:39.878 - Nick suddenly was infatuated with Rachel. 480 00:23:39.919 --> 00:23:43.631 The way we knew Nick was, we were his only friends, 481 00:23:43.715 --> 00:23:45.216 there wasn't other people. 482 00:23:45.300 --> 00:23:46.885 He didn't have a life outside of us. 483 00:23:46.926 --> 00:23:48.845 But then he started bringing up Rachel, 484 00:23:48.887 --> 00:23:52.223 and, like, our friends would think of her 485 00:23:52.265 --> 00:23:55.060 as his bad influence friend... 486 00:23:55.101 --> 00:23:56.436 - Have you met my friend? 487 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:58.104 - Who was more into partying and cocaine 488 00:23:58.188 --> 00:24:00.648 and living life on the edge or whatever. 489 00:24:04.611 --> 00:24:08.073 - Between me and Nick, there was a darkness, 490 00:24:08.156 --> 00:24:12.243 an unspoken darkness that just kind of existed. 491 00:24:12.285 --> 00:24:14.913 [music playing loudly] 492 00:24:14.996 --> 00:24:16.456 This is our chauffeur. 493 00:24:19.584 --> 00:24:21.628 We would all go out with our friends. 494 00:24:21.711 --> 00:24:24.255 I feel like nobody else showed that darkness 495 00:24:24.297 --> 00:24:25.632 the way that we did. 496 00:24:25.715 --> 00:24:27.801 We were like, "Okay, if you're like this 497 00:24:27.884 --> 00:24:29.678 "and I'm like this, then that must mean 498 00:24:29.761 --> 00:24:31.763 we're not too far off the rail, right?" 499 00:24:31.805 --> 00:24:34.891 [frantic 2000s-era music] 500 00:24:34.933 --> 00:24:38.603 ♪ ♪ 501 00:24:38.687 --> 00:24:39.854 We didn't see any 502 00:24:39.938 --> 00:24:42.899 of our other friends as brave as us, 503 00:24:42.941 --> 00:24:45.735 to do the things that we would do. 504 00:24:45.777 --> 00:24:48.321 We would, like, paint a gun black 505 00:24:48.405 --> 00:24:50.532 and wave it at people, you know? 506 00:24:50.615 --> 00:24:51.950 Like, some real twisted things. 507 00:24:52.033 --> 00:24:55.453 Like really, things that should have had us dead. 508 00:24:55.537 --> 00:25:00.208 And we were just, like, smiling, like, "Kill us. 509 00:25:00.291 --> 00:25:01.626 Okay." You know? 510 00:25:01.668 --> 00:25:03.753 Like, just no fear. 511 00:25:03.795 --> 00:25:07.215 ♪ ♪ 512 00:25:07.298 --> 00:25:10.885 We started to call ourselves Bonnie and Clyde. 513 00:25:10.969 --> 00:25:12.846 We got really high off of that, 514 00:25:12.929 --> 00:25:14.806 because there was this deep loneliness 515 00:25:14.889 --> 00:25:17.809 that we both carried so much with us 516 00:25:17.892 --> 00:25:20.937 that having each other was such a high. 517 00:25:22.981 --> 00:25:25.066 Wow. I'm freaking lucky. 518 00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:27.152 Nobody in this world has somebody 519 00:25:27.193 --> 00:25:28.862 this ride-or-die for them. 520 00:25:38.788 --> 00:25:42.834 Our crimes started with us checking cars. 521 00:25:45.378 --> 00:25:48.256 On the way out of a party, we would just start 522 00:25:48.340 --> 00:25:51.843 yanking on car door handles. 523 00:25:51.926 --> 00:25:54.346 A lot of those doors were open. 524 00:25:54.387 --> 00:25:57.766 Sometimes we would find money or, like, something. 525 00:25:59.809 --> 00:26:02.020 Some of our friends got a little bit, like, 526 00:26:02.103 --> 00:26:05.482 "Well, I want that too. I want to come too." 527 00:26:05.523 --> 00:26:06.775 Sometimes I wouldn't even be there. 528 00:26:06.858 --> 00:26:08.485 They're like, "Oh, we're out checking cars." 529 00:26:08.526 --> 00:26:11.363 I'm like, "Thanks for the invite, guys." 530 00:26:11.404 --> 00:26:12.864 I felt FOMO'ed out. 531 00:26:14.657 --> 00:26:16.034 And then I think we just started 532 00:26:16.076 --> 00:26:18.203 running out of things to do together. 533 00:26:18.244 --> 00:26:19.788 We started getting, like, a little aggravated 534 00:26:19.871 --> 00:26:21.122 with each other, too, 535 00:26:21.206 --> 00:26:23.124 'cause we were together so often. 536 00:26:25.001 --> 00:26:28.421 We kept wanting to, like, go to the next level, 537 00:26:28.505 --> 00:26:29.589 go to the next level. 538 00:26:29.673 --> 00:26:31.591 So then we started to check mailboxes. 539 00:26:31.675 --> 00:26:34.469 And the whole concept behind the mailboxes was, 540 00:26:34.552 --> 00:26:36.596 if the mailbox was really full, 541 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:38.264 that means that they're out of town. 542 00:26:38.348 --> 00:26:45.313 ♪ ♪ 543 00:26:47.899 --> 00:26:50.568 - I would always post where I'm going to be going 544 00:26:50.652 --> 00:26:52.696 on my bulletins on Myspace. 545 00:26:52.737 --> 00:26:54.906 And, yeah, I just thought nothing of that. 546 00:26:54.948 --> 00:26:57.659 I felt like it was a very innocent, normal thing 547 00:26:57.742 --> 00:26:59.202 to post on social media. 548 00:27:02.247 --> 00:27:05.417 When I get back to LA from Jamaica, 549 00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:10.213 I hear my mom yelling towards my dad 550 00:27:10.255 --> 00:27:13.883 about something that had to do with money. 551 00:27:13.925 --> 00:27:16.011 My parents being foreign-- 552 00:27:16.094 --> 00:27:18.388 a lot of people who have parents 553 00:27:18.430 --> 00:27:19.472 that weren't born in America 554 00:27:19.556 --> 00:27:20.557 might be able to relate to this, 555 00:27:20.598 --> 00:27:22.892 but at the time, they didn't really trust 556 00:27:22.934 --> 00:27:24.686 the American bank system. 557 00:27:24.769 --> 00:27:27.856 They kept money in a box under the bed. 558 00:27:27.939 --> 00:27:29.941 I just remember my mom, like, looking at me 559 00:27:29.983 --> 00:27:33.028 and, like, looking really upset and distraught 560 00:27:33.111 --> 00:27:36.990 and saying that someone stole a lot of money from them. 561 00:27:37.073 --> 00:27:40.744 It was something like $28,000 in cash. 562 00:27:40.785 --> 00:27:44.164 They took my mom's jewelry, some clothes, 563 00:27:44.247 --> 00:27:45.457 and it was like-- 564 00:27:45.540 --> 00:27:47.125 it just hit me like a ton of bricks. 565 00:27:47.167 --> 00:27:48.918 Like, "Oh, my God, someone broke into our house 566 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:50.462 "and took that much money. 567 00:27:50.503 --> 00:27:51.755 "Like, who could that have been, 568 00:27:51.838 --> 00:27:55.967 and why was our house able to be walked into like that?" 569 00:27:56.009 --> 00:27:58.094 ♪ ♪ 570 00:27:58.136 --> 00:28:00.805 The authorities came in, they asked questions, 571 00:28:00.889 --> 00:28:03.391 they took fingerprints, all of that, 572 00:28:03.475 --> 00:28:05.477 but they didn't have a lead. 573 00:28:05.560 --> 00:28:09.731 I wanted to be able to put it together, and I tried so hard. 574 00:28:09.814 --> 00:28:11.816 I had a list of people in my head 575 00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:12.984 that it could have been. 576 00:28:13.068 --> 00:28:14.944 And Nick was always at the top, 577 00:28:14.986 --> 00:28:16.780 or at least the second person on that list. 578 00:28:16.821 --> 00:28:18.156 - Nick, say hello. 579 00:28:18.239 --> 00:28:20.450 - But there were points where I lowered him 580 00:28:20.492 --> 00:28:24.829 on that list in my heart because he was my friend. 581 00:28:24.871 --> 00:28:30.210 - At first, we did go into just random homes, 582 00:28:30.293 --> 00:28:32.712 and then it was celebrity after that. 583 00:28:33.672 --> 00:28:37.133 [typing] 584 00:28:37.175 --> 00:28:39.636 I don't want this to seem like I'm blaming, 585 00:28:39.678 --> 00:28:41.346 because it's important to me to-- 586 00:28:41.429 --> 00:28:42.681 that I take the accountability, 587 00:28:42.764 --> 00:28:45.558 but if we're gonna be specific, 588 00:28:45.642 --> 00:28:49.020 it was when Nick had found that website, 589 00:28:49.062 --> 00:28:50.814 Celebrity Address Aerial. 590 00:28:53.858 --> 00:28:56.903 It shows every single celebrity's address. 591 00:28:56.986 --> 00:29:00.448 And he said, "I found the jackpot." 592 00:29:00.532 --> 00:29:02.992 I was like, "How the hell did you find that?" 593 00:29:08.581 --> 00:29:10.959 - The first robbery was in 2008. 594 00:29:11.042 --> 00:29:12.544 That was Paris Hilton. 595 00:29:12.585 --> 00:29:14.170 - I'm just hot. 596 00:29:14.212 --> 00:29:15.880 - It was coming off of "The Simple Life" 597 00:29:15.964 --> 00:29:18.800 and was so entitled and kind of looked 598 00:29:18.883 --> 00:29:20.927 like she was looking down upon people. 599 00:29:21.011 --> 00:29:23.430 - I've always heard that people hang out at Walmart. 600 00:29:23.513 --> 00:29:24.848 - Why? - I don't know. 601 00:29:24.889 --> 00:29:26.599 - What is Walmart? 602 00:29:26.683 --> 00:29:28.810 - She really was capitalizing 603 00:29:28.893 --> 00:29:32.814 on her, like, princess-y, high-voiced persona. 604 00:29:32.897 --> 00:29:34.441 - That's hot. - That's hot. 605 00:29:34.524 --> 00:29:35.734 That's hot. That's hot. 606 00:29:35.775 --> 00:29:37.235 - Was definitely known for her clothing, 607 00:29:37.277 --> 00:29:39.070 had, like, a zillion and a half 608 00:29:39.112 --> 00:29:42.073 Juicy Couture sweatsuits. 609 00:29:42.115 --> 00:29:44.951 - Paris Hilton in Uggs holding Tinker Bell. 610 00:29:45.035 --> 00:29:47.328 That's, like, the avatar in my head. 611 00:29:47.412 --> 00:29:51.833 I used to have a really big fascination with Paris Hilton. 612 00:29:54.044 --> 00:29:58.923 Eden Hilton was the Myspace name that I went by. 613 00:29:59.007 --> 00:30:02.677 I had a internet sister named Amor Hilton, 614 00:30:02.761 --> 00:30:06.348 and we would just pretend to be related to the Hiltons 615 00:30:06.431 --> 00:30:08.892 and make little vlogs for my YouTube. 616 00:30:08.933 --> 00:30:10.477 Yes. We're the Hiltons. 617 00:30:10.560 --> 00:30:11.603 Leave us alone. 618 00:30:11.686 --> 00:30:12.937 - Geez. 619 00:30:14.189 --> 00:30:16.358 - What did you get? - Diamonds. 620 00:30:16.441 --> 00:30:17.484 - Hello, Paris. 621 00:30:17.567 --> 00:30:20.236 - Her lifestyle was, like, "I'm gonna just get paid 622 00:30:20.278 --> 00:30:23.198 for being myself." 623 00:30:23.281 --> 00:30:25.283 And I always looked at that. and I was, like, "Wow. 624 00:30:25.325 --> 00:30:27.327 I strive to be like that one day." 625 00:30:29.662 --> 00:30:31.122 - The reason they chose Paris first 626 00:30:31.206 --> 00:30:32.540 was because she had so much shit 627 00:30:32.624 --> 00:30:35.251 that she would never notice. 628 00:30:35.293 --> 00:30:38.755 - To me, it was just a sure shot. 629 00:30:38.797 --> 00:30:41.174 It's like, if you go into a celebrity home, 630 00:30:41.257 --> 00:30:44.344 most likely, you're gonna see a lot cooler things 631 00:30:44.427 --> 00:30:45.970 or nicer things. 632 00:30:47.889 --> 00:30:53.019 But going up to Paris Hilton's home, 633 00:30:53.103 --> 00:30:57.315 I felt like my heart was gonna combust out of me. 634 00:30:57.357 --> 00:31:00.110 Me and Nick-- we were like, "Okay. 635 00:31:00.151 --> 00:31:01.861 "Does your heart feel like it's about to pop out of its chest? 636 00:31:01.945 --> 00:31:03.154 Because mine does, too." 637 00:31:03.196 --> 00:31:06.324 [breathing rapidly] "Okay. Let's keep going." 638 00:31:06.366 --> 00:31:10.620 We were, like, cheerleading each other on. 639 00:31:10.662 --> 00:31:15.000 It was because we had each other we could do it. 640 00:31:15.083 --> 00:31:16.835 - And then kind of as a joke, like, 641 00:31:16.876 --> 00:31:18.086 "Let's go to the front door. 642 00:31:18.169 --> 00:31:20.296 Do you think the key is underneath the doormat?" 643 00:31:20.338 --> 00:31:21.923 - They found the key right under the mat. 644 00:31:22.007 --> 00:31:23.174 - "No way! 645 00:31:23.258 --> 00:31:24.634 The key is underneath the doormat." 646 00:31:24.676 --> 00:31:26.177 - And that's how they got in. 647 00:31:28.930 --> 00:31:31.057 - Being inside the home-- 648 00:31:31.141 --> 00:31:34.519 it was almost like I was on a set. 649 00:31:34.561 --> 00:31:37.022 It didn't seem real. 650 00:31:37.063 --> 00:31:39.024 I was like, "How is it so perfect? 651 00:31:39.065 --> 00:31:40.525 "People actually live like this? 652 00:31:40.567 --> 00:31:42.235 Like, this is so lavish." 653 00:31:45.780 --> 00:31:48.241 And there was that really big fear 654 00:31:48.324 --> 00:31:50.452 that they would come home. 655 00:31:52.579 --> 00:31:55.540 It was like, "Get what you fucking want, 656 00:31:55.582 --> 00:31:57.417 and let's go, like, now." 657 00:31:59.127 --> 00:32:02.422 There was so much stress and anxiety behind it. 658 00:32:02.505 --> 00:32:03.798 - Yeah. 659 00:32:03.882 --> 00:32:05.216 But there obviously was an adrenaline 660 00:32:05.258 --> 00:32:07.052 and a thrill in there. - Yeah. 661 00:32:07.093 --> 00:32:09.763 Yeah. I am trying my best 662 00:32:09.846 --> 00:32:12.682 to just be as honest and truthful. 663 00:32:19.064 --> 00:32:24.235 I was-- so what it was for me was-- 664 00:32:24.277 --> 00:32:27.572 like, before the crime was committed, anxiety. 665 00:32:27.614 --> 00:32:29.866 And then when the crime was being committed, 666 00:32:29.908 --> 00:32:31.242 it was adrenaline, 667 00:32:31.284 --> 00:32:34.662 and then, when the crime was over, 668 00:32:34.746 --> 00:32:38.166 I felt so high and clear-headed. 669 00:32:38.249 --> 00:32:39.376 Like, it really wakes you up. 670 00:32:39.417 --> 00:32:41.211 Like, you're not, like, sleepy at all. 671 00:32:41.252 --> 00:32:46.007 And I really liked that feeling a lot. 672 00:32:46.091 --> 00:32:47.342 - ♪ There's no coming down ♪ 673 00:32:47.425 --> 00:32:51.763 ♪ I'm high for the night ♪ 674 00:32:51.805 --> 00:32:58.186 ♪ I'm lost in the clouds, flashing thunder sky ♪ 675 00:32:58.269 --> 00:32:59.813 ♪ Don't look back ♪ 676 00:32:59.896 --> 00:33:02.190 - They went to Paris Hilton's house multiple times. 677 00:33:04.693 --> 00:33:06.986 The first couple times, they took small items 678 00:33:07.070 --> 00:33:09.197 that would go unnoticed. 679 00:33:09.280 --> 00:33:14.619 - Like a piece of clothing or a purse, or coke or weed. 680 00:33:14.661 --> 00:33:18.373 One particular time, we found a lot of cocaine-- 681 00:33:18.456 --> 00:33:19.833 a lot. 682 00:33:19.916 --> 00:33:21.793 And we didn't go to bed that night. 683 00:33:21.835 --> 00:33:25.839 We stayed up all night, and we just were coked out. 684 00:33:25.922 --> 00:33:27.549 [engine revving] 685 00:33:27.632 --> 00:33:28.842 ♪ Don't look back ♪ 686 00:33:28.925 --> 00:33:33.138 ♪ I'll cross that line ♪ 687 00:33:33.221 --> 00:33:37.225 ♪ Can't get back that stolen time ♪ 688 00:33:39.477 --> 00:33:43.148 ♪ Don't look back, I crossed the line ♪ 689 00:33:44.065 --> 00:33:46.484 ♪ Summer rain ♪ 690 00:33:50.447 --> 00:33:55.326 - The whole time, I was just numbing myself out on Xanax. 691 00:33:55.368 --> 00:33:58.121 It wasn't ideal for me to go a whole day 692 00:33:58.163 --> 00:34:00.248 without taking at least, like, a quarter, 693 00:34:00.331 --> 00:34:05.211 and so I always had at least one bar on me. 694 00:34:05.295 --> 00:34:09.341 - And what did it feel like when you didn't have it? 695 00:34:09.382 --> 00:34:10.717 - [sighs] 696 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.180 I would fight with everybody, mostly my family. 697 00:34:17.223 --> 00:34:19.476 [water splashing] - [laughs] 698 00:34:22.479 --> 00:34:24.814 Aw, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 699 00:34:24.856 --> 00:34:28.234 [laughs] 700 00:34:28.318 --> 00:34:29.694 [dog collar rattling] 701 00:34:29.736 --> 00:34:30.695 - Hello. 702 00:34:33.782 --> 00:34:35.116 Hi, Dad. 703 00:34:37.702 --> 00:34:38.995 Hi, Shuna. 704 00:34:39.037 --> 00:34:40.538 You are such a cutie. 705 00:34:42.040 --> 00:34:43.458 Do you want to jump in, Dad? 706 00:34:43.541 --> 00:34:45.168 - No. - Do you want to go in? 707 00:34:45.210 --> 00:34:48.421 My dad always had my back, no matter what. 708 00:34:48.505 --> 00:34:51.716 But back then, I didn't appreciate that. 709 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:56.429 I just put onto my family that label of "broken family." 710 00:34:57.389 --> 00:35:00.058 [camcorder whirring] 711 00:35:00.141 --> 00:35:03.061 [moody music] 712 00:35:03.103 --> 00:35:10.276 ♪ ♪ 713 00:35:10.735 --> 00:35:16.199 - When Rachel was young, sometimes I just happened 714 00:35:16.241 --> 00:35:20.120 to walk with their mom. 715 00:35:20.203 --> 00:35:25.583 Then, because we divorced, 716 00:35:25.667 --> 00:35:27.711 we walked together, 717 00:35:27.752 --> 00:35:30.046 but we have some distance, 718 00:35:30.088 --> 00:35:33.633 and always Rachel in the middle 719 00:35:33.717 --> 00:35:36.344 and take my hands 720 00:35:36.428 --> 00:35:40.306 and take the other hand with her mom 721 00:35:40.390 --> 00:35:43.309 and walking together. 722 00:35:43.393 --> 00:35:49.524 And sometimes, she, like, sneak out 723 00:35:49.607 --> 00:35:53.945 and, you know, take my right hand 724 00:35:53.987 --> 00:35:58.992 and my ex-wife's left hand together 725 00:35:59.075 --> 00:36:00.910 and she just sneak out. 726 00:36:03.621 --> 00:36:07.459 I lived with Rachel's mom 3 1/2 years. 727 00:36:07.542 --> 00:36:11.046 But during those 3 1/2 years, 728 00:36:11.129 --> 00:36:15.800 I filed three times divorce. 729 00:36:15.884 --> 00:36:21.348 It was a crazy process, but finally, it ended. 730 00:36:24.768 --> 00:36:30.774 I raised Rachel and her sister with my parents in Seattle. 731 00:36:30.815 --> 00:36:33.401 - My grandma--she was just, like, the epitome 732 00:36:33.485 --> 00:36:35.487 of the most perfect grandma. 733 00:36:35.570 --> 00:36:39.407 She was always smiling, and my grandma is my idol. 734 00:36:41.493 --> 00:36:44.454 - When Rachel was eight years old, 735 00:36:44.496 --> 00:36:49.709 somehow I failed managing my financial structure. 736 00:36:49.793 --> 00:36:54.172 I'm, like, a professional poker player, 737 00:36:54.214 --> 00:36:57.842 and I'm a professional, like, gambler. 738 00:36:57.926 --> 00:37:03.973 But maybe this is not considered as a profession, 739 00:37:04.015 --> 00:37:06.184 but that's what I did. 740 00:37:06.226 --> 00:37:10.188 And I had some hardship, 741 00:37:10.271 --> 00:37:14.693 so I surrendered my kids, 742 00:37:14.776 --> 00:37:19.531 and I asked her mom to take care of them. 743 00:37:19.614 --> 00:37:24.285 - I always told myself this story that my dad left me, 744 00:37:24.369 --> 00:37:28.039 and he was an alcoholic and he was a gambler, 745 00:37:28.081 --> 00:37:31.710 and that he didn't really love me. 746 00:37:31.793 --> 00:37:35.630 I couldn't understand why it was happening to me. 747 00:37:35.714 --> 00:37:39.509 - I have felt always guilty. 748 00:37:39.551 --> 00:37:46.433 I just didn't have a proper financial condition 749 00:37:46.516 --> 00:37:48.685 to live with them, so I surrendered. 750 00:37:51.521 --> 00:37:53.732 I thought they could be raised 751 00:37:53.773 --> 00:37:58.862 at a better environment in Calabasas. 752 00:37:58.903 --> 00:38:02.949 The record shows it was not. 753 00:38:03.033 --> 00:38:06.911 [moody rock music] 754 00:38:06.953 --> 00:38:09.581 - I didn't like my world. 755 00:38:09.622 --> 00:38:13.626 Going into a celebrity home and trying on their stuff, 756 00:38:13.710 --> 00:38:15.712 I was able to live in their world. 757 00:38:15.754 --> 00:38:18.214 - Socialite Paris Hilton is said to be distraught 758 00:38:18.256 --> 00:38:21.009 after a burglar ransacked her LA bedroom. 759 00:38:21.092 --> 00:38:22.260 Police say the thief made off 760 00:38:22.302 --> 00:38:23.887 with about $2 million in jewelry. 761 00:38:23.928 --> 00:38:25.889 - More celebrities added to a list of victims 762 00:38:25.930 --> 00:38:28.475 in a string of high-profile burglaries in LA. 763 00:38:28.558 --> 00:38:30.268 - Audrina Patridge, a regular 764 00:38:30.310 --> 00:38:31.853 on the reality series "The Hills." 765 00:38:31.936 --> 00:38:34.356 - Former star of "The OC," Rachel Bilson. 766 00:38:34.439 --> 00:38:36.900 - They studied when these young celebrities 767 00:38:36.941 --> 00:38:41.863 would be home or not based on what they saw on "TMZ." 768 00:38:46.910 --> 00:38:49.079 - You know, the social media of the celebrities. 769 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:50.622 Seeing, like, where were they? 770 00:38:50.663 --> 00:38:53.208 Did Paris have a club appearance in Dubai? 771 00:38:53.291 --> 00:38:55.835 Like, was Audrina going to Vegas 772 00:38:55.919 --> 00:38:57.462 for, like, the opening of Tau or something? 773 00:38:57.504 --> 00:38:58.672 They'd be like, "Okay, 774 00:38:58.755 --> 00:39:00.298 "this person's gonna be out of town. 775 00:39:00.340 --> 00:39:03.635 This might be an opening for us to go scope out their house." 776 00:39:03.718 --> 00:39:06.137 - I have to give them credit for that. 777 00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:09.057 I don't think that there was any other case before them 778 00:39:09.140 --> 00:39:10.517 that used social media. 779 00:39:12.894 --> 00:39:17.273 - Surprisingly, you can feel energy of a person. 780 00:39:17.315 --> 00:39:19.693 You can feel when somebody is in a home. 781 00:39:23.154 --> 00:39:27.117 When I took their stuff, it was an instant feeling 782 00:39:27.158 --> 00:39:28.868 of, like, "Ooh, I'm powerful." 783 00:39:31.037 --> 00:39:33.331 And then, once we actually step foot 784 00:39:33.373 --> 00:39:35.000 out of the house, then, all of a sudden, 785 00:39:35.041 --> 00:39:38.211 there was that huge sense of relief. 786 00:39:38.294 --> 00:39:40.880 "Oh, thank God. We got away. 787 00:39:40.964 --> 00:39:42.507 It's over." 788 00:39:42.549 --> 00:39:44.009 Then we would just do it again. 789 00:39:44.050 --> 00:39:49.514 ♪ ♪ 790 00:39:49.556 --> 00:39:52.475 - By this point, they got more players involved. 791 00:39:53.601 --> 00:39:55.687 - There was Courtney Ames. 792 00:39:55.729 --> 00:39:57.897 - I really wanted to be friends with her 793 00:39:57.981 --> 00:40:01.693 because she was known in school to be the badass. 794 00:40:01.776 --> 00:40:03.903 She was always, like, the girl in high school 795 00:40:03.987 --> 00:40:05.739 I was kind of intimidated by 'cause I was like, 796 00:40:05.822 --> 00:40:08.867 "I'll never be cool enough to be her friend." 797 00:40:08.950 --> 00:40:12.871 - Also, Diana Tamayo, who was close to Rachel Lee. 798 00:40:12.912 --> 00:40:16.499 - She was somebody who actually works so much, 799 00:40:16.541 --> 00:40:17.876 and she's in high school 800 00:40:17.917 --> 00:40:20.128 and taking care of her brothers 801 00:40:20.211 --> 00:40:21.212 and her family, 802 00:40:21.254 --> 00:40:23.590 and I, you know, 803 00:40:23.673 --> 00:40:26.051 just kind of led her down that road. 804 00:40:26.092 --> 00:40:28.386 [electronic music] 805 00:40:28.428 --> 00:40:30.638 ♪ ♪ 806 00:40:30.722 --> 00:40:32.766 - These other players wanted in 807 00:40:32.849 --> 00:40:34.517 because they were all friends, 808 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.228 and so they joined in on other burglaries. 809 00:40:37.270 --> 00:40:38.730 - Through them, there were two men 810 00:40:38.772 --> 00:40:40.565 who were brought into the situation. 811 00:40:40.607 --> 00:40:43.193 That was Roy Lopez and Johnny Ajar. 812 00:40:43.234 --> 00:40:46.571 - Courtney Ames was a waitress at the Sagebrush Cantina. 813 00:40:46.613 --> 00:40:48.782 - She knew Roy through work, 814 00:40:48.865 --> 00:40:51.076 and she kind of told him, 815 00:40:51.117 --> 00:40:53.244 "Well, hey, I've got this thing going on. 816 00:40:53.328 --> 00:40:54.579 Do you want in?" 817 00:40:54.621 --> 00:40:56.414 He said, "Yes, I want in." 818 00:40:57.248 --> 00:41:00.418 - And they're supposed to help sell off the things 819 00:41:00.502 --> 00:41:02.796 that the kids stole from the house. 820 00:41:02.879 --> 00:41:06.007 So Rachel and Nick looped in these other people. 821 00:41:06.091 --> 00:41:08.009 Then they have this tangential friend, 822 00:41:08.093 --> 00:41:09.260 Alexis Neiers. 823 00:41:09.344 --> 00:41:12.263 [upbeat music] 824 00:41:12.305 --> 00:41:13.932 ♪ ♪ 825 00:41:13.973 --> 00:41:16.226 This girl, like, loves going out to clubs. 826 00:41:16.267 --> 00:41:18.228 She's working as a model. 827 00:41:18.269 --> 00:41:21.981 She's hanging out with her, like, quasi-sister, 828 00:41:22.065 --> 00:41:23.900 friend, Tess Taylor. 829 00:41:23.942 --> 00:41:26.903 Tess and Alexis and Nick become close. 830 00:41:28.071 --> 00:41:29.906 Rachel was not pleased about it. 831 00:41:30.990 --> 00:41:33.702 - He actually met Alexis through me, 832 00:41:33.785 --> 00:41:38.081 'cause my friend's boyfriend's best friend's girlfriend 833 00:41:38.123 --> 00:41:39.457 was Alexis. 834 00:41:39.541 --> 00:41:41.960 So she was always around. 835 00:41:42.002 --> 00:41:45.213 Nick ended up clicking with Alexis 836 00:41:45.296 --> 00:41:47.841 and then just started hanging out, like, on their own. 837 00:41:47.924 --> 00:41:50.552 I was not included in these things, 838 00:41:50.635 --> 00:41:52.554 and I was really jealous that Nick 839 00:41:52.637 --> 00:41:56.641 was gaining a new best friend. 840 00:41:56.683 --> 00:42:00.395 She had, like, blue eyes and, like, pretty hair, 841 00:42:00.478 --> 00:42:01.855 and she's so cute. 842 00:42:01.938 --> 00:42:06.192 And I felt like, I guess I'm that disposable, huh, 843 00:42:06.276 --> 00:42:08.319 where you can just drop me 844 00:42:08.403 --> 00:42:11.156 and choose these other girls 845 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:14.284 because you felt like they were cooler than me? 846 00:42:18.496 --> 00:42:20.874 But when we were stealing, 847 00:42:20.957 --> 00:42:23.710 me and Nick were still on each other's team. 848 00:42:25.337 --> 00:42:27.130 We were still Bonnie and Clyde. 849 00:42:27.172 --> 00:42:28.715 We're in this together. 850 00:42:30.508 --> 00:42:33.595 When the group got bigger, all of a sudden, 851 00:42:33.678 --> 00:42:36.806 it went from it being just me and him 852 00:42:36.848 --> 00:42:39.517 to more of a liability. 853 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:41.853 It felt very dangerous. 854 00:42:43.396 --> 00:42:48.151 And I, at that point, really felt-- 855 00:42:48.193 --> 00:42:49.778 I was like, "This is bad." 856 00:42:55.700 --> 00:42:58.411 - It's hard to understand-- like, if it was so bad 857 00:42:58.495 --> 00:42:59.746 and it was always so scary, 858 00:42:59.829 --> 00:43:03.291 why do you think you went back time and time again? 859 00:43:05.377 --> 00:43:11.800 - [sighs] Well, you know, 860 00:43:11.883 --> 00:43:14.302 I really liked Xanax. 861 00:43:14.386 --> 00:43:19.724 One of the effects that it had on me was that it-- 862 00:43:19.808 --> 00:43:24.854 that part when I'm high gets super fuzzy. 863 00:43:24.896 --> 00:43:28.483 - What we saw, evidentiary-wise, 864 00:43:28.566 --> 00:43:31.528 it was not a drug-motivated crime 865 00:43:31.569 --> 00:43:34.239 or crime spree. 866 00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:38.034 - We like to fill in answers that we don't know. 867 00:43:38.076 --> 00:43:40.078 You want to think there must be a good reason, 868 00:43:40.120 --> 00:43:42.872 there must be something going on, it's not their fault. 869 00:43:42.914 --> 00:43:44.582 It's their house, it's their childhood, 870 00:43:44.624 --> 00:43:47.168 it's mental illness for drug addiction. 871 00:43:47.252 --> 00:43:49.254 But lots of kids grow up 872 00:43:49.337 --> 00:43:53.049 with way more difficult circumstances than they did. 873 00:43:53.091 --> 00:43:56.594 I grew up with more difficult circumstances than they did. 874 00:43:56.678 --> 00:43:58.596 And so to say, "Oh, well, you know, 875 00:43:58.680 --> 00:44:00.432 she came from divorced parents" 876 00:44:00.515 --> 00:44:02.809 or whatever--no. 877 00:44:02.892 --> 00:44:04.811 I think it's really simple. I do. 878 00:44:04.894 --> 00:44:07.313 I think that they wanted stuff that they couldn't afford, 879 00:44:07.397 --> 00:44:10.900 and they weren't willing to work hard to get it. 880 00:44:10.942 --> 00:44:13.653 - I don't know. You know? 881 00:44:13.737 --> 00:44:16.114 Stealing can be a compulsive behavior, 882 00:44:16.156 --> 00:44:19.409 just like an eating disorder is really about control. 883 00:44:19.451 --> 00:44:24.122 They had drug problems, using prescription drugs. 884 00:44:24.164 --> 00:44:27.000 There was a different mental process going on 885 00:44:27.083 --> 00:44:31.796 than simply, "I want what Paris Hilton has." 886 00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:35.258 These were troubled kids. 887 00:44:35.300 --> 00:44:37.969 They were not part of the mainstream. 888 00:44:38.053 --> 00:44:42.182 The racism, the homophobia even in this privileged place-- 889 00:44:42.265 --> 00:44:45.018 it was, in some ways, worse than anywhere else. 890 00:44:45.101 --> 00:44:49.147 And they wanted, somehow, desperately to be normal. 891 00:44:52.734 --> 00:44:54.778 - Everyone, I think, had a different reason 892 00:44:54.819 --> 00:44:57.447 why they were doing it. 893 00:44:57.489 --> 00:44:59.616 And for me, it was-- 894 00:44:59.657 --> 00:45:01.868 like, honestly, when I started watching 895 00:45:01.951 --> 00:45:04.371 those Fast and Furious, Ocean's 11 movies, 896 00:45:04.454 --> 00:45:07.082 I really just, like-- 897 00:45:07.165 --> 00:45:11.378 I was like--"Icon. I want to be that." 898 00:45:11.461 --> 00:45:13.922 You know? I don't know why. 899 00:45:14.005 --> 00:45:17.384 I don't know why I thought like that, but I did. 900 00:45:23.098 --> 00:45:25.141 - Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom 901 00:45:25.183 --> 00:45:27.227 had some of his real treasure stolen. 902 00:45:27.310 --> 00:45:29.479 Police say someone broke into his Hollywood Hills home 903 00:45:29.521 --> 00:45:30.897 yesterday. 904 00:45:30.980 --> 00:45:33.191 The thief got away with jewelry and cash. 905 00:45:33.274 --> 00:45:34.984 Orlando Bloom, though, was not home 906 00:45:35.026 --> 00:45:36.695 at the time of the break-in. 907 00:45:36.778 --> 00:45:38.363 - The cops said it was not, like, 908 00:45:38.405 --> 00:45:40.323 a professional operation. 909 00:45:40.365 --> 00:45:43.326 It wasn't, like, some Mission Impossible shit 910 00:45:43.368 --> 00:45:46.496 with, like, no fingerprints or something like that. 911 00:45:46.538 --> 00:45:50.792 But no one was, like, "Maybe it's these teenagers." 912 00:45:50.875 --> 00:45:52.210 - Whoa, what? 913 00:45:52.293 --> 00:45:54.754 - Once the kids got the items, some of them 914 00:45:54.838 --> 00:45:56.172 were kind of brazen with them. 915 00:45:56.214 --> 00:45:57.716 Like, they'd wear them and be like, 916 00:45:57.757 --> 00:45:59.968 "Yeah, I just got this at Paris's house." 917 00:46:00.051 --> 00:46:01.511 - What's the fun of being able to get 918 00:46:01.553 --> 00:46:04.305 into Paris Hilton's house if you can't tell somebody? 919 00:46:04.389 --> 00:46:05.473 Like, "Hey, I've been in there. 920 00:46:05.557 --> 00:46:06.558 I've been in there twice. 921 00:46:06.641 --> 00:46:07.600 I've been in there three times." 922 00:46:07.684 --> 00:46:09.853 - ♪ Got that money ♪ 923 00:46:09.894 --> 00:46:12.897 - It was so irresistible that you're overcoming 924 00:46:12.981 --> 00:46:15.775 your own instinct for self-preservation. 925 00:46:15.859 --> 00:46:18.903 They would be wearing items that were stolen 926 00:46:18.987 --> 00:46:22.115 and posting it on social media. 927 00:46:22.198 --> 00:46:25.285 - Other items were sold, like, on Venice Beach. 928 00:46:25.368 --> 00:46:27.203 - I never sold anything. 929 00:46:27.245 --> 00:46:29.414 I gave a lot of stuff away. I did. 930 00:46:29.456 --> 00:46:31.458 - What was the--what was the Venice Beach thing? 931 00:46:31.541 --> 00:46:32.584 Was that anything? 932 00:46:32.667 --> 00:46:36.129 - Oh. That one--that--that-- 933 00:46:36.212 --> 00:46:38.423 Okay, yes. Then we did sell. 934 00:46:38.465 --> 00:46:42.969 I did sell some--that was-- that was that time, yes. 935 00:46:43.053 --> 00:46:45.096 I think I came up with the idea, actually. 936 00:46:45.180 --> 00:46:47.974 I was like, "What if we just, like, went to Venice 937 00:46:48.058 --> 00:46:49.392 and just opened up a carpet 938 00:46:49.434 --> 00:46:51.936 and just, like, 20 bucks, everything? 939 00:46:52.020 --> 00:46:53.355 People were flocking. 940 00:46:53.438 --> 00:46:54.898 And they were like, "What's that? 941 00:46:54.939 --> 00:46:56.232 "What's this? What's that? What's this?" 942 00:46:56.274 --> 00:46:58.109 And we were just, like, "It's fake, it's real. 943 00:46:58.151 --> 00:47:00.153 Take it if you want it." 944 00:47:00.236 --> 00:47:03.114 We sold everything in less than 15 minutes. 945 00:47:03.156 --> 00:47:04.908 - ♪ What's in that Louis bag? ♪ 946 00:47:04.949 --> 00:47:06.368 ♪ Ooh, can I touch? ♪ 947 00:47:06.451 --> 00:47:07.535 ♪ Got that ♪ 948 00:47:07.619 --> 00:47:09.287 ♪ Got that money in the bank ♪ 949 00:47:09.371 --> 00:47:11.122 ♪ Got that money ♪ 950 00:47:11.164 --> 00:47:13.291 ♪ Got that money in the bank ♪ 951 00:47:13.333 --> 00:47:14.584 ♪ Got that ♪ 952 00:47:18.213 --> 00:47:20.548 - One day, somebody texted me. 953 00:47:20.632 --> 00:47:25.303 And they said, "Holy shit, I think I see you on 'TMZ.'" 954 00:47:27.972 --> 00:47:30.308 [tense music] 955 00:47:30.350 --> 00:47:32.268 - There was surveillance footage 956 00:47:32.310 --> 00:47:36.106 from Audrina Patridge that was run on TMZ, 957 00:47:36.147 --> 00:47:40.026 and everyone would see these videos. 958 00:47:40.110 --> 00:47:41.986 - I called Nick, and I was like, 959 00:47:42.070 --> 00:47:43.738 "Oh, my God, go to 'TMZ.' 960 00:47:43.822 --> 00:47:46.950 "Like, shit, bro. Like, this is bad. 961 00:47:50.954 --> 00:47:52.789 "We're surrounded by menaces. 962 00:47:52.831 --> 00:47:55.959 Like, somebody's gonna rat us out." 963 00:47:56.001 --> 00:47:59.671 And I was just like, "What do I do?" 964 00:47:59.754 --> 00:48:03.508 And so I call my dad. 965 00:48:04.926 --> 00:48:10.473 - I knew she's gonna get caught sooner or later. 966 00:48:10.515 --> 00:48:14.352 So I wanted to cut 967 00:48:14.394 --> 00:48:16.813 the relationship with those friends 968 00:48:16.855 --> 00:48:20.191 by relocating her from LA to Las Vegas. 969 00:48:20.275 --> 00:48:22.027 - Rachel Lee's dad lived in Las Vegas, 970 00:48:22.110 --> 00:48:24.112 and she had, you know, went there-- 971 00:48:24.195 --> 00:48:27.866 fled there soon after things started unraveling. 972 00:48:27.907 --> 00:48:31.244 [tranquil music] 973 00:48:31.327 --> 00:48:33.913 - My dad got me out of that area, 974 00:48:33.997 --> 00:48:35.749 away from those people. 975 00:48:35.832 --> 00:48:37.208 He told me to go to college, 976 00:48:37.292 --> 00:48:39.002 like, try to start a new life. 977 00:48:39.044 --> 00:48:41.004 Just stay out of sight. 978 00:48:46.468 --> 00:48:51.056 But there was one particular night 979 00:48:51.097 --> 00:48:53.641 that my friends called me. 980 00:48:53.725 --> 00:48:55.268 And they said, "Let's go steal." 981 00:48:55.352 --> 00:48:58.521 And I was all the way in Vegas, and I said, 982 00:48:58.605 --> 00:49:00.106 "I'll be there in four hours." 983 00:49:02.192 --> 00:49:05.028 I was so manipulative, and I-- 984 00:49:05.070 --> 00:49:06.571 me and my dad-- 985 00:49:06.654 --> 00:49:07.739 we smoked together. 986 00:49:07.781 --> 00:49:10.367 I am blessed to be able to smoke weed with my dad. 987 00:49:10.408 --> 00:49:14.579 But we were smoking together, and I purposely rolled us, 988 00:49:14.621 --> 00:49:16.581 like, a really big joint 989 00:49:16.664 --> 00:49:18.249 so I could get him super high 990 00:49:18.291 --> 00:49:20.001 and just knock him out. 991 00:49:20.085 --> 00:49:20.960 And I just remember 992 00:49:21.044 --> 00:49:22.253 we were, like, hanging out on the couch, 993 00:49:22.337 --> 00:49:23.880 like, watching Korean drama, 994 00:49:23.922 --> 00:49:25.840 and then I just sparked up the joint, 995 00:49:25.924 --> 00:49:28.426 and we were smoking. 996 00:49:28.510 --> 00:49:30.428 After his first puff, 997 00:49:30.470 --> 00:49:32.555 he put it down. He said, "I'm done." 998 00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:34.349 And I said, "Let's finish it." 999 00:49:34.432 --> 00:49:36.393 And he said, "You smoke too much. 1000 00:49:36.434 --> 00:49:38.478 He's like, "You don't need to smoke so much. 1001 00:49:38.561 --> 00:49:39.896 "Just enjoy. 1002 00:49:39.938 --> 00:49:42.273 "Just take one little and just enjoy it. 1003 00:49:42.357 --> 00:49:44.442 Like, why do you have to get so high-high?" 1004 00:49:44.484 --> 00:49:47.237 And I told my dad, "Hey, I'm gonna go to LA, 1005 00:49:47.278 --> 00:49:50.115 and I'm gonna just go with my friends." 1006 00:49:50.156 --> 00:49:51.658 And he looked at me. 1007 00:49:51.741 --> 00:49:52.951 I will never forget. 1008 00:49:52.992 --> 00:49:54.703 His eyes got so big. 1009 00:49:54.786 --> 00:49:57.664 It's really hard to get, like, a reaction out of my dad. 1010 00:49:57.747 --> 00:49:59.666 He doesn't raise his voice, but I remember, 1011 00:49:59.749 --> 00:50:03.378 his voice got so loud, and he just yelled, "No! 1012 00:50:03.461 --> 00:50:04.587 No!" 1013 00:50:04.629 --> 00:50:07.799 And I--I kind of played off that card of-- 1014 00:50:07.882 --> 00:50:09.342 I wanted him to feel crazy. 1015 00:50:09.426 --> 00:50:11.386 And so I was like, "All right, dude." 1016 00:50:11.469 --> 00:50:13.096 Like, "You're tripping." You know? 1017 00:50:13.138 --> 00:50:14.472 Like, "Calm down." 1018 00:50:14.556 --> 00:50:16.141 And I was like, "All right, I'm gonna go." 1019 00:50:16.224 --> 00:50:20.311 - I tried to stop her, 1020 00:50:20.353 --> 00:50:25.233 but I didn't know how to persuade 1021 00:50:25.316 --> 00:50:28.153 or how to change her mind. 1022 00:50:30.530 --> 00:50:34.659 - I got my things, and I remember taking Xanax, 1023 00:50:34.743 --> 00:50:36.036 and I left. 1024 00:50:39.497 --> 00:50:45.670 It really sounds psychotic, but I still felt that FOMO. 1025 00:50:45.754 --> 00:50:48.673 [dramatic music] 1026 00:50:48.715 --> 00:50:52.052 ♪ ♪ 1027 00:50:52.135 --> 00:50:57.891 I remember pulling up, and Nick was there. 1028 00:50:57.974 --> 00:51:00.518 The stakes were so high, 1029 00:51:00.560 --> 00:51:03.104 because there was already surveillance of us. 1030 00:51:03.188 --> 00:51:06.649 And at this point, we were, like, 1031 00:51:06.691 --> 00:51:09.277 just on that actual edge. 1032 00:51:11.196 --> 00:51:14.282 And I think there was a part of me that was like, 1033 00:51:14.366 --> 00:51:16.785 "I'm going to finish strong." 1034 00:51:16.868 --> 00:51:19.537 - What you're watching is surveillance video 1035 00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:22.248 inside actress Lindsay Lohan's home. 1036 00:51:22.332 --> 00:51:24.459 Lohan is just one of ten victims 1037 00:51:24.542 --> 00:51:27.087 of the burglars' almost year-long crime spree 1038 00:51:27.170 --> 00:51:28.338 targeting the homes 1039 00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:30.548 of Hollywood's young and famous. 1040 00:51:30.632 --> 00:51:33.259 - The surveillance video from Lindsay Lohan's house 1041 00:51:33.343 --> 00:51:34.344 alerted the cops. 1042 00:51:34.386 --> 00:51:36.388 - Because you can see the commonalities 1043 00:51:36.429 --> 00:51:38.807 in Audrina's and Lindsay's footage. 1044 00:51:38.890 --> 00:51:41.393 - But even when they were caught on surveillance, 1045 00:51:41.434 --> 00:51:43.853 I mean, that alone would not have been enough. 1046 00:51:43.895 --> 00:51:45.689 They were wearing hoodies. 1047 00:51:45.730 --> 00:51:47.941 They had their head down. 1048 00:51:48.024 --> 00:51:52.153 Really, what put all the pieces together was Nick Prugo. 1049 00:51:53.321 --> 00:51:56.408 [soft guitar music] 1050 00:51:56.449 --> 00:51:59.077 ♪ ♪ 1051 00:51:59.160 --> 00:52:05.792 - ♪ Is this friendship complicated love? ♪ 1052 00:52:05.875 --> 00:52:07.210 ♪ ♪ 1053 00:52:07.252 --> 00:52:12.674 ♪ Hopes and heartbreak just falls down to one ♪ 1054 00:52:14.509 --> 00:52:17.303 - Shortly after the Lindsay Lohan surveillance 1055 00:52:17.387 --> 00:52:20.765 was released, me and Nick decided to meet up, 1056 00:52:20.849 --> 00:52:24.853 and I got in his car, into the passenger seat. 1057 00:52:24.936 --> 00:52:29.357 I said to him, 1058 00:52:29.441 --> 00:52:32.360 "This is really bad, what's happening to us. 1059 00:52:32.444 --> 00:52:33.570 This is really, really bad." 1060 00:52:33.611 --> 00:52:36.197 And I was like, "I don't know what's gonna happen to us." 1061 00:52:36.281 --> 00:52:38.158 And I remember I put my hand on his shoulder, 1062 00:52:38.241 --> 00:52:40.035 and I said, "But I love you so much. 1063 00:52:40.118 --> 00:52:42.162 I'll never betray you." 1064 00:52:44.998 --> 00:52:48.918 And then, like, within 24 hours, 1065 00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:50.462 I saw all over the news, 1066 00:52:50.545 --> 00:52:52.797 Nick Prugo went to the police station 1067 00:52:52.881 --> 00:52:55.592 and did a full confession, brought in all the property. 1068 00:52:55.633 --> 00:53:01.639 ♪ ♪ 1069 00:53:01.723 --> 00:53:04.642 - Nick was willing to just tell us everything. 1070 00:53:04.684 --> 00:53:07.479 - He just basically gives them 1071 00:53:07.562 --> 00:53:09.356 not only the crimes they were looking at, 1072 00:53:09.439 --> 00:53:11.441 but every other crime. 1073 00:53:11.483 --> 00:53:14.402 - Now authorities say Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox, 1074 00:53:14.486 --> 00:53:17.447 and Ashley Tisdale were also victimized. 1075 00:53:17.489 --> 00:53:21.493 - He kind of walked us through every single burglary 1076 00:53:21.534 --> 00:53:23.620 and who was there with him. 1077 00:53:23.661 --> 00:53:24.454 - Courtney. 1078 00:53:24.496 --> 00:53:25.997 I got you. Thank you. 1079 00:53:26.081 --> 00:53:26.998 Here, Courtney. 1080 00:53:27.082 --> 00:53:28.041 - Who planned it? 1081 00:53:28.124 --> 00:53:29.584 Is Nick running the ring? 1082 00:53:29.668 --> 00:53:30.960 - Did you do it? 1083 00:53:31.002 --> 00:53:32.045 - No, I didn't do it for Nick. 1084 00:53:32.128 --> 00:53:34.089 I didn't do jack shit. 1085 00:53:34.172 --> 00:53:36.883 - Did Nick trick you into it? 1086 00:53:36.966 --> 00:53:41.971 [reporters asking questions] 1087 00:53:42.013 --> 00:53:44.307 - He was betraying everybody, 1088 00:53:44.349 --> 00:53:47.894 but I was still sure he would protect me. 1089 00:53:49.771 --> 00:53:53.108 I was in Las Vegas with my dad at the time 1090 00:53:53.191 --> 00:53:55.360 and my grandmother. 1091 00:53:55.402 --> 00:53:58.363 Nick called me in the morning. 1092 00:53:58.405 --> 00:54:00.240 After his confession, 1093 00:54:00.323 --> 00:54:02.409 I know that it doesn't make sense 1094 00:54:02.492 --> 00:54:05.120 to talk to him, but me and Nick 1095 00:54:05.203 --> 00:54:08.289 were still best friends. 1096 00:54:08.373 --> 00:54:10.208 I remember when I answered the phone, 1097 00:54:10.250 --> 00:54:13.044 it wasn't our usual vibe. 1098 00:54:13.128 --> 00:54:15.046 It felt weird. 1099 00:54:15.088 --> 00:54:17.173 Because what he had said was, 1100 00:54:17.215 --> 00:54:19.718 "Oh, I was thinking about something, 1101 00:54:19.801 --> 00:54:23.138 "and I totally forgot your dad's street address. 1102 00:54:23.221 --> 00:54:25.890 What was the street name called again?" 1103 00:54:25.932 --> 00:54:28.518 And I was like, "Oh, okay." 1104 00:54:28.560 --> 00:54:30.186 And I said it, and he was like, "Oh, yeah. 1105 00:54:30.228 --> 00:54:31.688 That's right. That's what it was." 1106 00:54:31.730 --> 00:54:33.773 He's like, "Oh, yeah. I just wanted to know." 1107 00:54:33.857 --> 00:54:35.859 And he was like, "Okay, anyways I'll call you later." 1108 00:54:35.942 --> 00:54:37.152 I was like, "All right, bye." 1109 00:54:37.235 --> 00:54:38.903 Like, "Have a good day." 1110 00:54:38.945 --> 00:54:41.197 As I was saying, that I just saw black, black, 1111 00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:43.283 black, black, black, black, black, 1112 00:54:43.366 --> 00:54:45.535 and then pounding on the door. 1113 00:54:46.786 --> 00:54:48.413 Nick betrayed me. 1114 00:54:50.582 --> 00:54:53.251 The door swung open as if it was, like, a bomb squad, 1115 00:54:53.293 --> 00:54:57.630 and there were so many of them just piling into the house. 1116 00:54:57.714 --> 00:55:00.425 The first guy that came in, like, grabbed the dog 1117 00:55:00.467 --> 00:55:01.885 and kind of, like, kicked the dog. 1118 00:55:01.926 --> 00:55:03.261 And I remember-- 1119 00:55:03.345 --> 00:55:05.847 I usually-- I'm not a violent person. 1120 00:55:05.930 --> 00:55:06.931 I'm really not. 1121 00:55:07.015 --> 00:55:09.184 But I like kind of, like, charged him a little bit. 1122 00:55:09.267 --> 00:55:11.353 I was like, "Don't touch my dog like that." 1123 00:55:13.521 --> 00:55:16.775 The whole time, like, they were just tossing the house. 1124 00:55:16.858 --> 00:55:19.069 They were going through my dad's stuff. 1125 00:55:19.110 --> 00:55:22.030 They took $20,000 in cash. 1126 00:55:22.113 --> 00:55:23.448 - That was my money. 1127 00:55:23.490 --> 00:55:26.409 That was my gambling seed money. 1128 00:55:26.451 --> 00:55:28.536 - They took my grandma's fur coat 1129 00:55:28.620 --> 00:55:31.289 because they thought it was, like, Lindsay Lohan's. 1130 00:55:31.331 --> 00:55:32.499 They were trying to talk to my grandma. 1131 00:55:32.582 --> 00:55:33.875 I said, "She can't speak English. 1132 00:55:33.958 --> 00:55:34.876 Don't speak to her." 1133 00:55:34.959 --> 00:55:40.298 And she says to me in Korean, [speaking Korean] 1134 00:55:40.340 --> 00:55:42.008 She said, "I don't like these people. 1135 00:55:42.092 --> 00:55:44.094 Don't say anything to them." 1136 00:55:44.135 --> 00:55:50.809 And then finally, they found a ripped-up photo in-- 1137 00:55:50.850 --> 00:55:55.605 they found a ripped-up photo of Paris Hilton naked 1138 00:55:55.647 --> 00:55:58.108 in my bathroom trash can. 1139 00:55:59.150 --> 00:56:01.486 The cops all were so happy. 1140 00:56:01.569 --> 00:56:03.571 They're like, "Whew, we got her. 1141 00:56:03.655 --> 00:56:05.281 Got the evidence we needed." 1142 00:56:05.323 --> 00:56:10.995 The detective said to me, "This is a game of musical chairs. 1143 00:56:11.037 --> 00:56:12.789 "And we've already talked to all your friends, 1144 00:56:12.831 --> 00:56:14.833 and you're the only one without a chair." 1145 00:56:16.668 --> 00:56:17.919 - Rachel Lee was arrested 1146 00:56:18.003 --> 00:56:19.879 on warrants from California yesterday. 1147 00:56:19.963 --> 00:56:21.506 - One of Lee's co-defendants says 1148 00:56:21.548 --> 00:56:23.425 that she was the one who suggested 1149 00:56:23.508 --> 00:56:24.718 which celebrities to target. 1150 00:56:24.801 --> 00:56:26.803 - Lee is now facing charges in Las Vegas 1151 00:56:26.845 --> 00:56:28.680 of possessing stolen property 1152 00:56:28.722 --> 00:56:31.016 and charges of burglary in Los Angeles. 1153 00:56:39.482 --> 00:56:44.154 [both speaking indistinctly] 1154 00:56:44.195 --> 00:56:45.613 - I think a lot of my peers 1155 00:56:45.697 --> 00:56:47.032 would have wanted the case. 1156 00:56:47.073 --> 00:56:50.368 Everybody was interested in trying big cases, 1157 00:56:50.452 --> 00:56:51.619 media cases, 1158 00:56:51.703 --> 00:56:56.499 cases that show that the office trusted you as an attorney. 1159 00:56:56.541 --> 00:56:57.751 - I did not wanna take it 1160 00:56:57.834 --> 00:57:00.587 because it was gonna be a mess. 1161 00:57:00.670 --> 00:57:02.756 - They decided to assign me the case. 1162 00:57:02.839 --> 00:57:05.967 - Can you tell us about the prosecution's positioning? 1163 00:57:06.051 --> 00:57:07.635 - Well, it was the people's position 1164 00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:09.554 that we always encourage disposition of cases. 1165 00:57:09.637 --> 00:57:11.056 We're always open to-- 1166 00:57:11.097 --> 00:57:13.683 I knew that because of the media attention, 1167 00:57:13.725 --> 00:57:16.394 there would be more scrutiny both outside of the office 1168 00:57:16.478 --> 00:57:18.813 and within the office from my supervisors. 1169 00:57:18.897 --> 00:57:21.149 I had to be more careful about what I talked about 1170 00:57:21.232 --> 00:57:23.568 in terms of the case, and where I talked about it. 1171 00:57:23.651 --> 00:57:25.070 - Yeah, so we can't talk about those, 1172 00:57:25.111 --> 00:57:26.738 so that's all for now. 1173 00:57:26.821 --> 00:57:29.366 - First step is always to contact the IO, 1174 00:57:29.407 --> 00:57:31.201 the investigating officer, and talk 1175 00:57:31.242 --> 00:57:32.577 about the investigation. 1176 00:57:32.660 --> 00:57:34.496 - Who was the investigating officer assigned? 1177 00:57:34.579 --> 00:57:35.997 - Brett Goodkin. 1178 00:57:36.081 --> 00:57:37.332 - Officer Brett Goodkin 1179 00:57:37.374 --> 00:57:39.584 has worked the LAPD's Hollywood station 1180 00:57:39.626 --> 00:57:41.044 for six years. 1181 00:57:41.086 --> 00:57:43.296 - Officer Brett Goodkin investigated the Bling Ring. 1182 00:57:43.380 --> 00:57:45.799 - Is there some aspect of this that this burglary crew 1183 00:57:45.882 --> 00:57:48.677 targeted these people because of a fascination 1184 00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:51.012 with celebrity--you know, there's absolutely that. 1185 00:57:51.096 --> 00:57:53.556 - Brett Goodkin, the lead investigator, 1186 00:57:53.598 --> 00:57:55.892 was just willing to blab. 1187 00:57:55.934 --> 00:57:58.144 As a reporter, it's not my job to tell 1188 00:57:58.228 --> 00:57:59.729 Brett Goodkin to shut up. 1189 00:57:59.771 --> 00:58:01.398 Keep on talking, buddy. 1190 00:58:01.439 --> 00:58:03.316 I love this. 1191 00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:04.609 - He was the detective in charge 1192 00:58:04.693 --> 00:58:05.944 of the whole investigation. 1193 00:58:06.027 --> 00:58:08.947 - The charges range from residential burglary 1194 00:58:08.988 --> 00:58:11.825 to felon in possession of multiple firearms. 1195 00:58:14.452 --> 00:58:15.328 - I had no contact 1196 00:58:15.412 --> 00:58:16.913 with any celebrities up until this point. 1197 00:58:16.955 --> 00:58:18.623 I didn't know how the world worked. 1198 00:58:20.834 --> 00:58:22.877 I had never dealt with victims 1199 00:58:22.961 --> 00:58:24.462 who had personal assistants 1200 00:58:24.504 --> 00:58:25.588 who then had personal assistants. 1201 00:58:25.672 --> 00:58:27.632 And I was like, "Wait, I need to talk to the victim. 1202 00:58:27.716 --> 00:58:28.800 "I need to talk to the victim. 1203 00:58:28.842 --> 00:58:29.968 I can't talk to their assistant." 1204 00:58:30.010 --> 00:58:31.720 - How much contact with celebrities 1205 00:58:31.803 --> 00:58:32.846 is, like, part of that job? 1206 00:58:32.929 --> 00:58:34.639 - It's a big part of the job. 1207 00:58:34.681 --> 00:58:37.267 - I deferred a lot to my investigating officer 1208 00:58:37.308 --> 00:58:40.562 who had had contact with them in order to have them identify 1209 00:58:40.645 --> 00:58:43.857 stolen property, et cetera, and tried to communicate 1210 00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:45.775 as much as I could through him. 1211 00:58:45.817 --> 00:58:49.279 - She really did have to deal with a lot of stupid bullshit. 1212 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:52.449 But it was not a bad case. It was a strong case. 1213 00:58:52.490 --> 00:58:55.493 There was a lot of evidence that we found and recovered. 1214 00:58:55.577 --> 00:58:56.661 - Based on Nick's statement, 1215 00:58:56.745 --> 00:58:58.288 they found stolen property 1216 00:58:58.329 --> 00:58:59.873 in the homes of the defendants. 1217 00:58:59.956 --> 00:59:03.168 - I mean, millions of dollars' worth of items. 1218 00:59:03.251 --> 00:59:06.171 [swaggering music] 1219 00:59:06.212 --> 00:59:07.672 ♪ ♪ 1220 00:59:07.756 --> 00:59:10.300 - Chanel costume jewelry, necklaces, 1221 00:59:10.342 --> 00:59:11.718 scarves, stuff like that. 1222 00:59:11.801 --> 00:59:14.471 - A shitload of clothing and shoes. 1223 00:59:14.554 --> 00:59:17.515 - Rolex watches from Orlando Bloom's house. 1224 00:59:17.557 --> 00:59:19.768 - Jewelry from Lindsay Lohan's house. 1225 00:59:19.851 --> 00:59:21.603 - Marc Jacobs purses. 1226 00:59:21.686 --> 00:59:24.606 A gun from Brian Austin Green's house. 1227 00:59:24.689 --> 00:59:26.483 - They went into Paris Hilton's house, 1228 00:59:26.524 --> 00:59:28.234 and they basically just cleared, 1229 00:59:28.318 --> 00:59:29.819 like, a jewelry shelf. 1230 00:59:30.862 --> 00:59:32.072 - People were obsessed. 1231 00:59:32.155 --> 00:59:33.865 Like, the courthouse in downtown LA 1232 00:59:33.948 --> 00:59:35.992 where these kids would show up, 1233 00:59:36.034 --> 00:59:38.870 every single appearance was swarmed 1234 00:59:38.953 --> 00:59:41.790 with television cameras from legitimate news outlets, 1235 00:59:41.873 --> 00:59:45.001 and then celebrity news outlets like "TMZ." 1236 00:59:45.043 --> 00:59:48.672 - Are you gonna make a deal, Rachel, or what? 1237 00:59:48.713 --> 00:59:51.383 - How does it feel to be a rat? 1238 00:59:51.424 --> 00:59:53.843 - It's just like-- it's a shit show. 1239 00:59:53.885 --> 00:59:55.970 - Courtney, can we see the tattoo? 1240 00:59:56.054 --> 00:59:57.931 What'd you get? - It's LA, baby. 1241 00:59:58.014 --> 00:59:59.224 These kids want to be famous. 1242 00:59:59.307 --> 01:00:02.060 - Well, I'm definitely sorry for what I've done. 1243 01:00:02.143 --> 01:00:05.230 I'm trying to take early responsibility of my crimes-- 1244 01:00:05.271 --> 01:00:07.607 - Nick Prugo kept appearing on the news. 1245 01:00:07.691 --> 01:00:08.733 - We, you know, thought, 1246 01:00:08.775 --> 01:00:10.235 "These people are celebrities. They have everything." 1247 01:00:10.276 --> 01:00:12.821 - Alexis Neiers was, like, filming her show. 1248 01:00:12.904 --> 01:00:15.198 - Coming up on "Pretty Wild"... 1249 01:00:15.240 --> 01:00:16.408 - I'm sorry, Alexis. 1250 01:00:16.449 --> 01:00:18.410 We're going to have to pull you from LA Fashion Week. 1251 01:00:18.493 --> 01:00:19.744 - [crying] 1252 01:00:19.786 --> 01:00:21.746 - She was in the midst of this reality show-- 1253 01:00:21.830 --> 01:00:24.499 - "Pretty Wild," which is supposed to be 1254 01:00:24.582 --> 01:00:26.084 a reality show following 1255 01:00:26.167 --> 01:00:29.170 a fun, unconventional family in Hollywood. 1256 01:00:29.254 --> 01:00:31.047 - Let's do the frequency machine on you. 1257 01:00:31.089 --> 01:00:33.258 - As they're filming the pilot, 1258 01:00:33.341 --> 01:00:34.718 all of this Bling Ring stuff 1259 01:00:34.759 --> 01:00:36.594 is coming out in the news, 1260 01:00:36.678 --> 01:00:40.932 and Alexis is getting arrested. 1261 01:00:41.016 --> 01:00:43.059 - Finally. - Are you all right? 1262 01:00:43.101 --> 01:00:45.937 How did you do it? - I am not good. 1263 01:00:46.021 --> 01:00:49.441 - So the show just became appointment television. 1264 01:00:49.482 --> 01:00:50.775 Like, you wanted to see that. 1265 01:00:50.817 --> 01:00:52.694 - Hi, guys. - Hi, honey. 1266 01:00:52.777 --> 01:00:53.862 - I went shopping today. 1267 01:00:53.945 --> 01:00:56.656 - She was a character that people were familiar with 1268 01:00:56.740 --> 01:00:58.867 almost as much as Audrina 1269 01:00:58.950 --> 01:01:01.161 or other reality stars that she was robbing. 1270 01:01:01.244 --> 01:01:04.164 - You and Tess, it seems like-- you have a kind of a-- 1271 01:01:04.247 --> 01:01:07.459 I mean, the kind of life that a lot of teenagers 1272 01:01:07.500 --> 01:01:08.960 just kind of dream about having. 1273 01:01:09.044 --> 01:01:11.755 - At the end of the day, we are so wholesome 1274 01:01:11.796 --> 01:01:12.881 and down to earth. 1275 01:01:12.964 --> 01:01:14.049 - Nancy Jo Sales, 1276 01:01:14.132 --> 01:01:15.800 who was a writer for "Vanity Fair," 1277 01:01:15.842 --> 01:01:18.803 was writing a story about the Bling Ring case, 1278 01:01:18.887 --> 01:01:22.724 and Alexis Neiers was sort of her, like, big interview. 1279 01:01:22.807 --> 01:01:24.142 The headline was, 1280 01:01:24.184 --> 01:01:25.643 "The Suspects Wore Louboutins," 1281 01:01:25.685 --> 01:01:26.811 and there's this picture of Alexis 1282 01:01:26.895 --> 01:01:28.813 looking glamorous and stuff. 1283 01:01:28.897 --> 01:01:30.273 - Give me the magazine. 1284 01:01:30.315 --> 01:01:31.691 - I got the issue. 1285 01:01:31.775 --> 01:01:33.526 This is the issue you girls are in. 1286 01:01:33.610 --> 01:01:35.487 Whoo! - No way. 1287 01:01:35.528 --> 01:01:36.863 This is so cool. 1288 01:01:36.946 --> 01:01:39.157 - In a scene on "Pretty Wild," 1289 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:41.409 they open the magazine, and instantly, 1290 01:01:41.493 --> 01:01:43.745 like, tears are just flowing. 1291 01:01:43.828 --> 01:01:46.831 - She thought I was wearing 6-inch Louboutins 1292 01:01:46.873 --> 01:01:48.833 to court with my tweed outfit. 1293 01:01:48.875 --> 01:01:50.126 I wasn't wearing Louboutins. 1294 01:01:50.168 --> 01:01:52.087 I was wearing little brown kitten heels, 1295 01:01:52.170 --> 01:01:53.421 [bleep] bitch. 1296 01:01:53.505 --> 01:01:54.756 - She got hung up on this detail 1297 01:01:54.839 --> 01:01:56.925 that Nancy Jo Sales had written 1298 01:01:57.008 --> 01:01:58.343 that when she was in court, 1299 01:01:58.385 --> 01:02:00.512 she wore 6-inch Louboutins, 1300 01:02:00.553 --> 01:02:02.347 when in fact, she had just worn 1301 01:02:02.430 --> 01:02:05.684 little Bebe Chu kitten heels. 1302 01:02:05.725 --> 01:02:09.688 - [sniffling] Nancy Jo? 1303 01:02:09.729 --> 01:02:11.773 This is Alexis Neiers calling. 1304 01:02:11.856 --> 01:02:14.943 - She calls up Nancy Jo Sales on speakerphone. 1305 01:02:15.026 --> 01:02:16.528 The whole family is, like, sitting around her. 1306 01:02:16.569 --> 01:02:18.029 They're crying, and she's like, 1307 01:02:18.071 --> 01:02:20.198 "Nancy Jo, I'm just calling 1308 01:02:20.281 --> 01:02:22.742 to let you know how disappointed I am." 1309 01:02:22.826 --> 01:02:24.077 And then-- and the family's like, 1310 01:02:24.160 --> 01:02:27.038 "Yeah, we're disappointed!" And she's like, "Mom, stop! 1311 01:02:27.122 --> 01:02:30.959 "Every time you start, I have to start over! 1312 01:02:31.042 --> 01:02:33.712 "Nancy Jo, I'm just calling to let you know 1313 01:02:33.753 --> 01:02:35.255 how disappointed I am..." 1314 01:02:35.338 --> 01:02:36.756 - I am in your story. 1315 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:38.633 - It was just so ridiculous. 1316 01:02:38.717 --> 01:02:40.510 - Have a nice life. Goodbye. 1317 01:02:44.848 --> 01:02:47.600 - I got the details of who broke into my house 1318 01:02:47.684 --> 01:02:50.812 from that "Vanity Fair" article. 1319 01:02:50.895 --> 01:02:55.900 There was an interview with Nick in which he admits 1320 01:02:55.942 --> 01:02:58.111 that he broke into a friend's house 1321 01:02:58.194 --> 01:03:03.700 in the summer of tenth grade, and that was it for me. 1322 01:03:03.742 --> 01:03:06.745 After reading it, I felt crazy. 1323 01:03:06.828 --> 01:03:09.122 That, to me, was like, "Okay. 1324 01:03:09.205 --> 01:03:13.752 Like, I gotta take him down somehow, but I don't know how." 1325 01:03:13.835 --> 01:03:15.253 I hit up all these, like-- 1326 01:03:15.337 --> 01:03:17.922 like, newscasters and journalists that I felt 1327 01:03:18.006 --> 01:03:21.760 would take my story somehow. 1328 01:03:21.801 --> 01:03:25.013 I hit up Ellen DeGeneres, John Quinones 1329 01:03:25.096 --> 01:03:29.059 from "What Would You Do," but I was not a famous person. 1330 01:03:30.727 --> 01:03:32.562 It definitely bothered me a lot 1331 01:03:32.645 --> 01:03:34.898 when I would see, like, photos of Nick 1332 01:03:34.939 --> 01:03:37.108 and, like, the Bling Ring crew on "TMZ." 1333 01:03:37.192 --> 01:03:39.069 - I just really can't comment, I'm sorry. 1334 01:03:39.110 --> 01:03:40.028 - Okay, can you at least tell me 1335 01:03:40.111 --> 01:03:41.571 who your favorite actress is? 1336 01:03:41.613 --> 01:03:43.698 - Um, Angelina Jolie. 1337 01:03:43.782 --> 01:03:45.450 - Angelina Jolie. - She's gorgeous, yeah. 1338 01:03:45.492 --> 01:03:49.037 - Okay, but she's not next on the list, is she? 1339 01:03:49.120 --> 01:03:51.414 - Honestly, guys, like, I didn't really even-- 1340 01:03:51.456 --> 01:03:53.667 I barely knew Nick, and I didn't really know 1341 01:03:53.750 --> 01:03:55.835 anyone else that was involved. 1342 01:03:55.919 --> 01:03:58.296 - Alexis, I think-- she, in people's minds, 1343 01:03:58.380 --> 01:04:01.132 is the Bling Ring because she was on "Pretty Wild." 1344 01:04:01.174 --> 01:04:02.801 I think people knew her much more than they knew 1345 01:04:02.884 --> 01:04:03.927 even Nick Prugo. 1346 01:04:03.968 --> 01:04:06.388 But she actually had, like, 1347 01:04:06.471 --> 01:04:08.890 fairly little involvement in the end. 1348 01:04:08.973 --> 01:04:10.475 - Ms. Neiers is charged with a felony, 1349 01:04:10.517 --> 01:04:13.770 commonly known as first-degree residential burglary, 1350 01:04:13.812 --> 01:04:15.980 of Orlando Bloom's residence. 1351 01:04:16.064 --> 01:04:18.066 Do you understand the charge against you? 1352 01:04:18.108 --> 01:04:19.484 - Yes. 1353 01:04:19.567 --> 01:04:22.362 - She's not someone who was going to every burglary. 1354 01:04:22.445 --> 01:04:25.824 - It was thought that she was one of the least culpable 1355 01:04:25.907 --> 01:04:27.575 of the Bling Ring. 1356 01:04:27.659 --> 01:04:30.704 - I--I can't speak for Alexis 1357 01:04:30.787 --> 01:04:33.331 because she knows what she's done. 1358 01:04:33.373 --> 01:04:34.749 - Lead pursuant to People versus-- 1359 01:04:34.833 --> 01:04:36.751 - She pled out early, 1360 01:04:36.835 --> 01:04:39.045 and she was done with her case. 1361 01:04:39.129 --> 01:04:40.338 - How does she plead? 1362 01:04:40.380 --> 01:04:41.881 - No contest. 1363 01:04:41.965 --> 01:04:43.341 - And you understand your no contest plea 1364 01:04:43.425 --> 01:04:45.468 will be treated the same as a guilty plea by the judge, 1365 01:04:45.510 --> 01:04:47.721 and he will find you guilty based upon your plea? 1366 01:04:47.804 --> 01:04:49.097 - [whispers] Yes. - Yes. 1367 01:04:49.180 --> 01:04:53.351 - Alexis got probation and 180 days in county jail. 1368 01:04:53.435 --> 01:04:56.813 Johnny Ajar also was split off from the case 1369 01:04:56.896 --> 01:05:01.109 because his case involved his own other priors. 1370 01:05:01.192 --> 01:05:04.654 All the remaining defendants, their case is still open. 1371 01:05:07.866 --> 01:05:09.367 - Please. Come on. 1372 01:05:09.409 --> 01:05:11.703 - Every court date, people were approaching me, 1373 01:05:11.786 --> 01:05:13.038 wanting to talk. 1374 01:05:13.121 --> 01:05:15.206 My mom, being a lawyer-- she was like, 1375 01:05:15.248 --> 01:05:17.042 "Just don't say anything. 1376 01:05:17.083 --> 01:05:19.294 "You have to understand that this is something 1377 01:05:19.377 --> 01:05:21.463 that could be very dangerous." 1378 01:05:21.546 --> 01:05:26.217 That is definitely where it changed for me. 1379 01:05:26.301 --> 01:05:28.928 That rebellious side of me disappeared. 1380 01:05:29.012 --> 01:05:31.097 I became very submissive, 1381 01:05:31.181 --> 01:05:35.727 and I was just doing exactly what I was told. 1382 01:05:35.769 --> 01:05:38.521 Keep quiet. 1383 01:05:38.563 --> 01:05:41.900 But that also meant I couldn't defend myself. 1384 01:05:41.983 --> 01:05:44.861 - Nick Prugo is the kind of shy kid 1385 01:05:44.903 --> 01:05:46.363 who could live on your street. 1386 01:05:46.404 --> 01:05:48.907 That is, until he meets a young woman 1387 01:05:48.990 --> 01:05:51.076 who changed his life forever: 1388 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:54.287 his best friend Rachel Lee, whom he says 1389 01:05:54.371 --> 01:05:57.248 is the mastermind behind the Bling Ring. 1390 01:05:57.290 --> 01:05:59.542 - In the media, that word, "mastermind," 1391 01:05:59.584 --> 01:06:00.960 just kept coming up. 1392 01:06:01.044 --> 01:06:02.504 Like, mastermind, Rachel Lee, mastermind, 1393 01:06:02.587 --> 01:06:04.422 and people were calling me the ringleader. 1394 01:06:04.506 --> 01:06:07.801 The defendants that actually decided to talk 1395 01:06:07.884 --> 01:06:09.552 started to create that narrative. 1396 01:06:09.594 --> 01:06:11.179 - When it actually came time to do it, 1397 01:06:11.262 --> 01:06:14.808 I'd always have to have Rachel lead or, you know, help me. 1398 01:06:14.891 --> 01:06:16.101 - And how would she convince you? 1399 01:06:16.142 --> 01:06:18.019 - She would just go, and I'd follow. 1400 01:06:18.103 --> 01:06:21.022 - How often would you guys plan a new mark? 1401 01:06:21.106 --> 01:06:22.357 - Whenever we'd run out of money, 1402 01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:24.609 or if Rachel wanted a new outfit. 1403 01:06:24.693 --> 01:06:26.945 I was really genuinely scared, and Rachel's just, like, 1404 01:06:27.028 --> 01:06:28.405 going back and forth in the rooms, 1405 01:06:28.446 --> 01:06:30.949 checking, like, grabbing clothes for herself. 1406 01:06:31.032 --> 01:06:32.200 And, you know-- - Wow, 1407 01:06:32.283 --> 01:06:33.410 like, Rachel's such a bitch. 1408 01:06:33.451 --> 01:06:35.078 She, like, ruined this kid's life. 1409 01:06:35.120 --> 01:06:38.915 And--as if I was, like, forcing these people 1410 01:06:38.957 --> 01:06:39.916 to do these things. 1411 01:06:39.958 --> 01:06:42.794 And I'm like, what? 1412 01:06:42.836 --> 01:06:44.838 Like, what the hell? 1413 01:06:44.921 --> 01:06:46.756 Like, when did this get so twisted? 1414 01:06:46.798 --> 01:06:48.508 Like, when did this get so-- 1415 01:06:48.591 --> 01:06:50.927 how did this get so, like, out of hand? 1416 01:06:50.969 --> 01:06:52.637 You know? 1417 01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:54.180 The more and more I saw him, 1418 01:06:54.264 --> 01:06:56.307 the more I felt like I really didn't know him. 1419 01:06:57.851 --> 01:07:00.478 In court, my attorney told me, 1420 01:07:00.520 --> 01:07:02.856 just look down and act like he's not there. 1421 01:07:02.939 --> 01:07:05.817 [melancholy music] 1422 01:07:05.900 --> 01:07:10.363 ♪ ♪ 1423 01:07:10.447 --> 01:07:12.323 - In the office, we decided to take 1424 01:07:12.407 --> 01:07:14.200 this case to the grand jury... 1425 01:07:14.284 --> 01:07:16.745 - Which meant that she had to put on live witnesses. 1426 01:07:16.828 --> 01:07:20.623 So she did have to deal with all the handlers 1427 01:07:20.665 --> 01:07:22.334 to bring the celebrities in, 1428 01:07:22.375 --> 01:07:24.044 like, through the back of the courtroom 1429 01:07:24.127 --> 01:07:25.420 and have them testify. 1430 01:07:25.503 --> 01:07:28.089 "TMZ" covered it pretty extensively. 1431 01:07:28.173 --> 01:07:30.008 - Are you gonna recover all your jewelry? 1432 01:07:30.091 --> 01:07:31.343 - Not everything. 1433 01:07:31.426 --> 01:07:32.886 - How much do you think they should do in jail? 1434 01:07:32.969 --> 01:07:34.471 How much jail time? 1435 01:07:34.512 --> 01:07:36.056 - Ten years. 1436 01:07:36.139 --> 01:07:37.390 - Have you ever been robbed? 1437 01:07:37.474 --> 01:07:39.434 - I haven't, but the night is young. 1438 01:07:39.517 --> 01:07:41.227 [laughter] 1439 01:07:41.311 --> 01:07:43.646 - Yeah, I've had my innocence robbed, too. 1440 01:07:43.688 --> 01:07:45.774 But I--no, I, um-- 1441 01:07:45.857 --> 01:07:48.610 it's a really awful thing to have happen to you. 1442 01:07:48.651 --> 01:07:50.153 So--but at the same time-- 1443 01:07:50.195 --> 01:07:51.529 - The concern was, they would not be sympathetic, 1444 01:07:51.571 --> 01:07:53.698 given their wealth. You know. 1445 01:07:53.782 --> 01:07:55.200 These are celebrities who-- 1446 01:07:55.241 --> 01:07:56.910 they don't feel comfortable or safe 1447 01:07:56.993 --> 01:07:58.912 or like they have any private life 1448 01:07:58.995 --> 01:08:00.372 probably anywhere but their homes, 1449 01:08:00.455 --> 01:08:02.290 and then to have somebody in that home 1450 01:08:02.374 --> 01:08:05.418 felt like such an invasion of their space. 1451 01:08:05.502 --> 01:08:07.045 And having talked to the victims 1452 01:08:07.087 --> 01:08:10.548 really solidified that idea in my mind, 1453 01:08:10.632 --> 01:08:13.551 that that is really the crime that was committed here, 1454 01:08:13.593 --> 01:08:16.304 that taking away of that safe space for them. 1455 01:08:17.555 --> 01:08:19.599 - Rachel Bilson and Lindsay Lohan, too, 1456 01:08:19.683 --> 01:08:21.518 I think, moved out of those houses 1457 01:08:21.559 --> 01:08:24.062 and never felt safe in those houses again. 1458 01:08:24.104 --> 01:08:25.647 You know, it's amazing to me 1459 01:08:25.730 --> 01:08:27.774 that the narrative still persists of, like, 1460 01:08:27.857 --> 01:08:29.401 "Well, you asked for it. 1461 01:08:29.442 --> 01:08:30.902 "If you decide to be a celebrity, 1462 01:08:30.944 --> 01:08:32.570 "you know what you're walking into. 1463 01:08:32.612 --> 01:08:35.115 "If you're rich and you're famous, then, like, 1464 01:08:35.198 --> 01:08:37.992 you get--and you have to take everything." 1465 01:08:38.076 --> 01:08:39.160 - It's very violating. 1466 01:08:39.244 --> 01:08:40.704 It's not about the material things 1467 01:08:40.745 --> 01:08:44.124 and the things that they took, because that comes and goes. 1468 01:08:47.669 --> 01:08:49.504 - When the burglary happened to me, 1469 01:08:49.587 --> 01:08:51.881 I felt really bad for my parents 1470 01:08:51.923 --> 01:08:56.511 even more than I felt for myself, especially my mom. 1471 01:08:56.594 --> 01:08:59.723 Like, that was the moment where a lot changed 1472 01:08:59.764 --> 01:09:02.350 when it comes to my mom's anxiety, 1473 01:09:02.434 --> 01:09:04.019 and they did blame me. 1474 01:09:04.102 --> 01:09:05.145 - Not 'til next year. 1475 01:09:05.228 --> 01:09:06.271 - Not 'til--hey. - Wait. 1476 01:09:06.354 --> 01:09:07.397 - You didn't tell me. 1477 01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:09.232 - They brought up that if it wasn't 1478 01:09:09.274 --> 01:09:11.234 for me being on Myspace 1479 01:09:11.276 --> 01:09:13.778 or putting my whole life out there on YouTube, 1480 01:09:13.820 --> 01:09:15.405 that this wouldn't happen. 1481 01:09:15.447 --> 01:09:18.241 I did start to internalize that guilt, 1482 01:09:18.283 --> 01:09:22.787 and then I projected it out into anything that I could 1483 01:09:22.829 --> 01:09:26.791 by being the angry, non-trusting person. 1484 01:09:38.595 --> 01:09:40.889 - Ultimately the grand jury indicted all the targets 1485 01:09:40.972 --> 01:09:42.140 of all the charges. 1486 01:09:42.223 --> 01:09:43.391 - How does Mr. Prugo plead? 1487 01:09:43.475 --> 01:09:45.560 - He'll plead not guilty. 1488 01:09:45.602 --> 01:09:46.978 - Diana Tamayo? 1489 01:09:47.062 --> 01:09:48.229 - Not guilty, Your Honor. 1490 01:09:48.313 --> 01:09:49.314 - Roy Lopez? 1491 01:09:49.356 --> 01:09:50.565 - Not guilty, Your Honor. 1492 01:09:50.648 --> 01:09:52.067 Deny any and all special allegations. 1493 01:09:52.150 --> 01:09:54.152 - Thank you. And Courtney Ames? 1494 01:09:54.194 --> 01:09:55.987 - Not guilty. 1495 01:09:56.029 --> 01:09:57.697 - Not guilty pleas will be given-- 1496 01:09:59.491 --> 01:10:01.493 - Soon after the indictment, I transferred 1497 01:10:01.534 --> 01:10:03.328 out of central trials eleven. 1498 01:10:03.370 --> 01:10:06.498 I transferred to the gang unit and left the case. 1499 01:10:11.419 --> 01:10:14.422 - I got the case post grand jury 1500 01:10:14.506 --> 01:10:19.969 with Nick Prugo, Rachel Lee, Courtney Ames, 1501 01:10:20.011 --> 01:10:23.848 Roy Lopez, and Diana Tamayo. 1502 01:10:23.890 --> 01:10:25.225 It was a great case. 1503 01:10:25.308 --> 01:10:28.186 Sarika--she did great. 1504 01:10:28.228 --> 01:10:30.188 She had a lot of physical evidence 1505 01:10:30.230 --> 01:10:32.023 of high dollar value. 1506 01:10:32.107 --> 01:10:34.359 We just needed to get all that sorted 1507 01:10:34.442 --> 01:10:37.028 about what was taken from where and when. 1508 01:10:37.070 --> 01:10:38.905 - That was a little complicated 1509 01:10:38.988 --> 01:10:40.031 because there was word 1510 01:10:40.073 --> 01:10:42.617 that there was potentially items we couldn't find 1511 01:10:42.701 --> 01:10:44.285 in Las Vegas because they had been buried in the desert 1512 01:10:44.369 --> 01:10:47.038 by Rachel Lee's dad. 1513 01:10:47.122 --> 01:10:50.250 - I asked my dad, "If you were trying 1514 01:10:50.333 --> 01:10:51.918 to get rid of stolen property"-- 1515 01:10:52.002 --> 01:10:54.129 I just wanted--I like to know people's psyches. 1516 01:10:54.212 --> 01:10:57.716 I just like to know. 1517 01:10:57.757 --> 01:11:00.510 And I asked him, "What would you do 1518 01:11:00.552 --> 01:11:02.470 "if you had a bunch of stolen stuff? 1519 01:11:02.554 --> 01:11:03.763 What would you do with it?" 1520 01:11:03.847 --> 01:11:06.975 And he said, "I would bury it in the middle of the desert." 1521 01:11:07.017 --> 01:11:09.769 And then Nick twisted that into, 1522 01:11:09.853 --> 01:11:12.897 "Oh, Rachel's dad said to bury everything in the desert." 1523 01:11:14.190 --> 01:11:15.567 - You know, the best way I can describe it 1524 01:11:15.608 --> 01:11:16.693 is like, word on the street, 1525 01:11:16.735 --> 01:11:18.236 because we weren't able to prove it. 1526 01:11:18.987 --> 01:11:21.489 But some neighbors of her dad had said they'd seen him 1527 01:11:21.573 --> 01:11:23.033 doing something out in the desert. 1528 01:11:23.074 --> 01:11:25.618 And so the speculation was that he had been out there 1529 01:11:25.702 --> 01:11:27.162 burying some items of property 1530 01:11:27.245 --> 01:11:28.955 that were never recovered. 1531 01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:31.916 [percussive music] 1532 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:33.543 ♪ ♪ 1533 01:11:33.585 --> 01:11:37.839 - As a parent, I want that they don't get caught. 1534 01:11:37.922 --> 01:11:43.595 You better get rid of all the things, evidence. 1535 01:11:43.636 --> 01:11:48.808 And my name was quoted on the publicity. 1536 01:11:48.892 --> 01:11:53.646 I was not related to the concealment of the goods 1537 01:11:53.730 --> 01:11:57.609 or whatever, but I was the-- 1538 01:11:57.650 --> 01:12:03.406 I became the person who could be asked about that matter. 1539 01:12:03.448 --> 01:12:07.285 So I just gave up all the business I was doing, 1540 01:12:07.327 --> 01:12:09.704 and just I disappeared. 1541 01:12:11.664 --> 01:12:14.292 I stayed in Korea for three years. 1542 01:12:14.334 --> 01:12:21.341 ♪ ♪ 1543 01:12:21.383 --> 01:12:23.009 - The first deal-- 1544 01:12:23.093 --> 01:12:25.261 they offered me 11 years. 1545 01:12:25.303 --> 01:12:27.389 And I remember being in the lawyer's office, 1546 01:12:27.472 --> 01:12:30.016 and he told me that, and my mom-- 1547 01:12:30.100 --> 01:12:31.309 she was sitting in the chair, 1548 01:12:31.393 --> 01:12:32.560 literally having a heart attack. 1549 01:12:32.644 --> 01:12:34.604 She was like, "11 years? That's impossible. 1550 01:12:34.646 --> 01:12:36.981 Like, she's only 18 years old. Like, how could this be?" 1551 01:12:37.023 --> 01:12:40.235 And in my mind I'm like, "But I committed crime." 1552 01:12:40.318 --> 01:12:41.945 Like, you can't just, 1553 01:12:42.028 --> 01:12:43.655 because I grew up in Calabasas 1554 01:12:43.697 --> 01:12:45.490 or because that was my first crime, 1555 01:12:45.573 --> 01:12:50.370 that I don't deserve to pay for it. 1556 01:12:53.707 --> 01:12:55.667 Calculating my age, I was like, "All right. 1557 01:12:55.709 --> 01:12:57.669 "18 plus 11. All right. 1558 01:12:57.711 --> 01:12:58.962 "That means I'll be, like-- 1559 01:12:59.004 --> 01:13:00.171 I'll still be young when I come out." 1560 01:13:00.213 --> 01:13:03.842 I was like, "All right." My attorney was like, "Oh, no. 1561 01:13:03.925 --> 01:13:05.719 Like, we're gonna get you something better than that." 1562 01:13:05.802 --> 01:13:08.388 And I was like, "Well, if that's my cards, 1563 01:13:08.471 --> 01:13:09.681 those are my cards." 1564 01:13:13.810 --> 01:13:16.521 A week or two later, my lawyer called me 1565 01:13:16.604 --> 01:13:17.605 back into the office. 1566 01:13:17.689 --> 01:13:21.192 He said, "They're offering you four years. 1567 01:13:21.234 --> 01:13:23.111 And I said, "Okay." 1568 01:13:23.194 --> 01:13:26.072 [foreboding music] 1569 01:13:26.156 --> 01:13:27.449 ♪ ♪ 1570 01:13:27.532 --> 01:13:29.868 This is the moment I've been running from 1571 01:13:29.909 --> 01:13:31.870 since I was 14. 1572 01:13:31.953 --> 01:13:36.041 This is the moment. It's actually here. 1573 01:13:36.124 --> 01:13:39.461 When the judge sentenced me, I felt the thud in my heart, 1574 01:13:39.544 --> 01:13:41.338 like, at the same time she did that. 1575 01:13:41.379 --> 01:13:43.757 And I was like, "Oh, the luck has run out." 1576 01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:46.593 Like, that--this is some real shit right here. 1577 01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:50.889 - You know what you did, and you know 1578 01:13:50.972 --> 01:13:52.891 if what you did was worth four years or not. 1579 01:13:52.932 --> 01:13:54.726 Rachel, I think, was maybe the smart one. 1580 01:13:54.768 --> 01:13:56.644 I don't know. She just-- 1581 01:13:56.728 --> 01:13:58.563 "I'm not going to get involved in this." 1582 01:13:58.605 --> 01:13:59.731 She took her time, 1583 01:13:59.773 --> 01:14:01.691 she took it like a man, and she left. 1584 01:14:01.733 --> 01:14:03.485 - Or like a woman. - Or like a woman. 1585 01:14:03.568 --> 01:14:04.736 There we go. 1586 01:14:04.819 --> 01:14:07.197 - Rebecca Ahn, you are found guilty 1587 01:14:07.238 --> 01:14:09.908 on four counts of first-degree residential burglary. 1588 01:14:09.991 --> 01:14:12.369 You are sentenced to four years in state prison 1589 01:14:12.410 --> 01:14:13.745 and $800,000. 1590 01:14:13.828 --> 01:14:17.040 - There are still a number of kids in the Bling Ring case 1591 01:14:17.123 --> 01:14:19.125 who have yet to be sentenced. 1592 01:14:19.209 --> 01:14:21.211 Sofia Coppola decides 1593 01:14:21.294 --> 01:14:23.546 this is such a fascinating story 1594 01:14:23.588 --> 01:14:26.174 that she is gonna turn it into a feature film. 1595 01:14:29.469 --> 01:14:30.553 They start filming this in LA. 1596 01:14:30.595 --> 01:14:32.722 And since I've been kind of, like, writing about it, 1597 01:14:32.764 --> 01:14:34.432 I ask if I can do a set visit. 1598 01:14:34.474 --> 01:14:36.351 So they invite me to set, 1599 01:14:36.434 --> 01:14:37.560 they let me talk to Sofia Coppola 1600 01:14:37.602 --> 01:14:39.479 for a little bit, and I'm like, "Okay, 1601 01:14:39.562 --> 01:14:42.107 "so I heard that you're paying Alexis Neiers 1602 01:14:42.190 --> 01:14:43.942 as a consultant on this movie." 1603 01:14:43.983 --> 01:14:46.653 And that was something I was interested in, 1604 01:14:46.736 --> 01:14:48.780 because obviously, people might find it 1605 01:14:48.863 --> 01:14:50.448 problematic that she's literally, like, 1606 01:14:50.532 --> 01:14:52.909 profiting off of her crime. 1607 01:14:52.951 --> 01:14:55.578 So I asked Sofia Coppola, what was Alexis like, 1608 01:14:55.620 --> 01:14:56.955 and has she been helpful? 1609 01:14:56.996 --> 01:14:58.915 And she was like, "Yeah, you know, she's been helpful, 1610 01:14:58.957 --> 01:15:01.710 but who's been really helpful is Brett Goodkin." 1611 01:15:02.293 --> 01:15:04.295 - Fascination with celebrity-- 1612 01:15:04.379 --> 01:15:05.422 yeah, there's absolutely that. 1613 01:15:05.463 --> 01:15:07.674 - And I was like, "The LAPD cop?" 1614 01:15:07.757 --> 01:15:10.802 And she was like, "Yeah. He's a technical advisor. 1615 01:15:10.885 --> 01:15:12.554 "He's, like, a consultant for us on the movie. 1616 01:15:12.637 --> 01:15:14.264 "And, like, he actually did a cameo the other day. 1617 01:15:14.305 --> 01:15:15.473 "He came in, and he, like, slapped 1618 01:15:15.557 --> 01:15:17.642 the cuffs on Emma Watson." 1619 01:15:17.684 --> 01:15:18.810 - Get her back. - Please stop. 1620 01:15:18.852 --> 01:15:20.145 - I need you to stop that. 1621 01:15:20.186 --> 01:15:21.312 - I need to speak to my mom. 1622 01:15:21.396 --> 01:15:23.356 - What you're doing with my daughter-- 1623 01:15:23.440 --> 01:15:24.983 - I called him up, and he told me, 1624 01:15:25.025 --> 01:15:26.735 you know, "Listen, I just advised 1625 01:15:26.818 --> 01:15:28.486 "on, like, procedural stuff. 1626 01:15:28.528 --> 01:15:30.363 "Yes, I did do a cameo. 1627 01:15:30.447 --> 01:15:32.574 It's not like I'm Bruce Willis." 1628 01:15:32.657 --> 01:15:36.119 And he said he got $5,000 or $6,000. 1629 01:15:36.161 --> 01:15:37.162 He couldn't even remember. 1630 01:15:37.245 --> 01:15:38.621 I called the LAPD. 1631 01:15:38.663 --> 01:15:40.874 I called the DA's office. 1632 01:15:40.957 --> 01:15:43.626 - I got a call from the "LA Times" asking me, 1633 01:15:43.668 --> 01:15:45.545 "How do you feel about your detective working 1634 01:15:45.628 --> 01:15:48.381 on the Sofia Coppola 'Bling Ring' case?" 1635 01:15:48.465 --> 01:15:51.176 We had no idea. 1636 01:15:51.217 --> 01:15:54.763 We made a speakerphone call to Detective Goodkin 1637 01:15:54.846 --> 01:15:57.349 to ask if this was the case. 1638 01:15:57.390 --> 01:15:59.267 He initially denied. 1639 01:15:59.351 --> 01:16:02.145 We told him we got a call from the "LA Times." 1640 01:16:02.187 --> 01:16:05.023 "Oh, yeah. I am working, 1641 01:16:05.106 --> 01:16:07.108 "but I'm not really getting paid that much. 1642 01:16:07.192 --> 01:16:08.193 I'm just kind of"... 1643 01:16:08.234 --> 01:16:10.695 You know, the defense attorneys subpoenaed 1644 01:16:10.779 --> 01:16:11.905 the payroll records 1645 01:16:11.988 --> 01:16:14.032 from Sofia Coppola's production company. 1646 01:16:14.115 --> 01:16:17.869 - Turns out he actually got, like, $12,500, 1647 01:16:17.911 --> 01:16:20.663 and he had not disclosed that to the LAPD, 1648 01:16:20.705 --> 01:16:24.709 and he had also not disclosed it to the DA. 1649 01:16:24.751 --> 01:16:30.298 - You cannot go and work on a film about some crimes 1650 01:16:30.382 --> 01:16:33.551 while that case is still open. 1651 01:16:33.635 --> 01:16:36.012 It's like the vortex of fame. 1652 01:16:36.054 --> 01:16:38.765 Kids with no criminal records wanting to go 1653 01:16:38.848 --> 01:16:41.059 and break into these, you know, celebrity homes, 1654 01:16:41.101 --> 01:16:45.647 my detective who wants to be famous or whatever. 1655 01:16:45.730 --> 01:16:47.857 As the detective, you're supposed to be 1656 01:16:47.899 --> 01:16:50.110 the person that's gonna be on the stand a lot 1657 01:16:50.193 --> 01:16:51.361 during trial. 1658 01:16:51.444 --> 01:16:54.364 Your credibility is very important. 1659 01:16:54.406 --> 01:16:56.574 And once you've lied to the DA, 1660 01:16:56.616 --> 01:16:58.993 that credibility is shot. 1661 01:16:59.077 --> 01:17:01.663 So he obviously was not gonna be able 1662 01:17:01.746 --> 01:17:03.623 to testify at trial. 1663 01:17:05.125 --> 01:17:08.503 - When I found out what had been occurring 1664 01:17:08.586 --> 01:17:09.963 behind the scenes with Brett Goodkin 1665 01:17:10.046 --> 01:17:12.799 and how that affected the case, I was disappointed for sure, 1666 01:17:12.882 --> 01:17:16.177 because when I left the case, it was like, 1667 01:17:16.261 --> 01:17:20.098 everything was going according to plan the way it should. 1668 01:17:20.140 --> 01:17:23.643 - Everyone would have gotten a state prison offer, 1669 01:17:23.727 --> 01:17:27.230 but for the fact that Brett Goodkin 1670 01:17:27.272 --> 01:17:28.440 kind of blew this case up. 1671 01:17:28.481 --> 01:17:29.691 Sorry, Brett. 1672 01:17:31.067 --> 01:17:33.611 We had to let all the defense attorneys know. 1673 01:17:33.653 --> 01:17:34.988 - The judge told them, 1674 01:17:35.071 --> 01:17:37.115 "You guys should write Brett Goodkin 1675 01:17:37.198 --> 01:17:39.659 "a thank you-note, because pretty much, 1676 01:17:39.743 --> 01:17:43.788 he just reduced your punishment majorly." 1677 01:17:43.830 --> 01:17:47.500 - In the end, Nick got two years' state prison, 1678 01:17:47.584 --> 01:17:49.669 and everybody else just got probation. 1679 01:17:52.672 --> 01:17:54.507 - They got the better end of the stick. 1680 01:17:54.591 --> 01:17:56.468 And I was like, "Oh, shit. 1681 01:17:56.551 --> 01:17:58.345 "Like, this is twisted. 1682 01:17:58.428 --> 01:18:00.263 Our system is twisted." 1683 01:18:03.725 --> 01:18:04.976 How can I be the ringleader 1684 01:18:05.060 --> 01:18:06.978 when I never even met Roy in person? 1685 01:18:07.062 --> 01:18:08.688 Or how can I be the ringleader when me and Alexis 1686 01:18:08.772 --> 01:18:10.815 weren't even friends? 1687 01:18:10.857 --> 01:18:12.942 - I don't know. I don't have a lot of sympathy. 1688 01:18:12.984 --> 01:18:16.029 - And police say alleged ringleader Rachel Lee 1689 01:18:16.112 --> 01:18:18.990 is wearing a necklace stolen from Rachel Bilson. 1690 01:18:19.074 --> 01:18:21.034 - Nick Prugo wasn't the only one to say 1691 01:18:21.117 --> 01:18:23.578 that this was really-- really Rachel-Lee-driven. 1692 01:18:23.661 --> 01:18:25.580 And in one of the videos, at least, 1693 01:18:25.663 --> 01:18:27.082 it appears that she's sort of the one 1694 01:18:27.165 --> 01:18:29.584 that Nick's trailing behind. 1695 01:18:29.668 --> 01:18:32.462 This started with Rachel Lee, and Nick Prugo went along. 1696 01:18:33.963 --> 01:18:36.341 - Of course, we weren't there, so we're not sure. 1697 01:18:36.383 --> 01:18:39.052 Was it Rachel's idea? Was it Nick's idea? 1698 01:18:39.135 --> 01:18:42.097 - Because Rachel stayed out of the limelight 1699 01:18:42.180 --> 01:18:45.225 and could not refute the idea that she was the ringleader, 1700 01:18:45.308 --> 01:18:46.643 it just persisted. 1701 01:18:46.685 --> 01:18:49.479 - When people think "Rachel Lee," 1702 01:18:49.521 --> 01:18:51.314 they think "ringleader." 1703 01:18:51.356 --> 01:18:53.149 - I know. - And so it's-- 1704 01:18:53.191 --> 01:18:54.150 - I know. 1705 01:18:54.192 --> 01:18:56.236 - It's kind of, like, never been disproven. 1706 01:18:56.319 --> 01:18:58.196 Right? - Yeah. 1707 01:18:58.238 --> 01:19:01.366 - I don't buy that Rachel pressured Nick 1708 01:19:01.449 --> 01:19:02.992 into doing anything. 1709 01:19:03.034 --> 01:19:04.703 I could understand how that story 1710 01:19:04.744 --> 01:19:06.955 would work out for him. 1711 01:19:07.038 --> 01:19:09.708 But he was an independent person. 1712 01:19:09.791 --> 01:19:11.209 He'll do something if he wants to do something. 1713 01:19:11.251 --> 01:19:12.877 If he didn't want to do that, he would have said, 1714 01:19:12.919 --> 01:19:14.129 "Let's not do this." 1715 01:19:14.212 --> 01:19:18.216 - You know, for a lot of people that were involved 1716 01:19:18.258 --> 01:19:20.010 in the Bling Ring, it was kind of, like, 1717 01:19:20.051 --> 01:19:22.220 a one-time thing for them. You know? 1718 01:19:22.303 --> 01:19:24.806 And I think for me and Nick, it was very repetitive. 1719 01:19:24.889 --> 01:19:27.142 So I feel like if anybody was the ringleader, 1720 01:19:27.225 --> 01:19:29.060 it was me and him, because I feel 1721 01:19:29.102 --> 01:19:30.520 like we did it just as much. 1722 01:19:31.896 --> 01:19:36.151 He and I were both equally as aggressive 1723 01:19:36.234 --> 01:19:38.737 and both equally as passive. 1724 01:19:38.820 --> 01:19:41.740 [uneasy music] 1725 01:19:41.781 --> 01:19:44.200 ♪ ♪ 1726 01:19:44.242 --> 01:19:46.077 Right before I went to prison, 1727 01:19:46.119 --> 01:19:48.913 I was living with my mom in an apartment 1728 01:19:48.997 --> 01:19:50.915 because she had to spend so much money 1729 01:19:50.957 --> 01:19:52.625 on lawyers and everything, 1730 01:19:52.709 --> 01:19:55.003 so everything got kind of downsized. 1731 01:19:55.086 --> 01:19:57.630 I was looking for something in my room, 1732 01:19:57.714 --> 01:19:59.049 and then I pulled out the Ziploc, 1733 01:19:59.090 --> 01:20:02.677 and it was probably, like, about an inch full of Xanax. 1734 01:20:02.761 --> 01:20:05.013 And honestly, still to this day, 1735 01:20:05.096 --> 01:20:07.640 I don't know if this is, like, a truth or a lie, 1736 01:20:07.724 --> 01:20:12.604 but I took one, and then I put the rest down the toilet. 1737 01:20:12.687 --> 01:20:14.022 I was like, "That's it. 1738 01:20:14.105 --> 01:20:16.107 You're never gonna purchase Xanax again." 1739 01:20:23.239 --> 01:20:27.118 When I self-surrendered into state prison, 1740 01:20:27.160 --> 01:20:29.913 we went to the guard gate 1741 01:20:29.954 --> 01:20:33.124 to where it was just that typical scene 1742 01:20:33.208 --> 01:20:34.501 of that entrance of a prison, 1743 01:20:34.584 --> 01:20:36.920 with the barbed wire on the top of the fence. 1744 01:20:36.961 --> 01:20:39.964 And the guard looked at me, and he said, 1745 01:20:40.048 --> 01:20:41.424 "Welcome to prison." 1746 01:20:47.347 --> 01:20:51.476 At the time, my grandma was in an elderly home 1747 01:20:51.559 --> 01:20:54.521 because when my dad was advised to go to Korea 1748 01:20:54.604 --> 01:20:56.064 and he left, 1749 01:20:56.147 --> 01:20:58.733 there was nobody to take her. 1750 01:20:58.817 --> 01:21:00.860 Late at night, a correctional officer 1751 01:21:00.944 --> 01:21:02.487 brought me into the office and was like, 1752 01:21:02.529 --> 01:21:04.406 "Hey, you should sit down. Like, I have something-- 1753 01:21:04.489 --> 01:21:06.533 a mail for you, and I already read it." 1754 01:21:06.616 --> 01:21:10.453 And my grandma passed away 1755 01:21:10.495 --> 01:21:13.206 while my dad was in Korea and while I was in prison. 1756 01:21:17.919 --> 01:21:21.006 When my dad came back for the funeral 1757 01:21:21.089 --> 01:21:23.216 and he came and visited me, 1758 01:21:23.299 --> 01:21:26.928 he said, "My mom died alone because of you." 1759 01:21:27.012 --> 01:21:29.848 And I said, "I know." 1760 01:21:29.889 --> 01:21:32.308 And he just said to me, 1761 01:21:32.350 --> 01:21:35.854 "It might take me a long time to forgive you." 1762 01:21:35.895 --> 01:21:37.981 And I was like, "Okay." 1763 01:21:40.108 --> 01:21:42.360 But he still came and visited me, 1764 01:21:42.402 --> 01:21:45.196 and he still treated me like his daughter. 1765 01:21:45.238 --> 01:21:52.203 ♪ ♪ 1766 01:21:53.413 --> 01:21:56.499 - When you were in a prison, I was getting some kind 1767 01:21:56.541 --> 01:21:57.792 of a punishment also. 1768 01:21:57.876 --> 01:21:59.044 - Yeah. 1769 01:21:59.085 --> 01:22:02.422 - I didn't know how to tune-- 1770 01:22:02.505 --> 01:22:07.844 how to tune your life as a father, 1771 01:22:07.886 --> 01:22:11.723 because you were too indulged. 1772 01:22:11.765 --> 01:22:14.184 Like, in Las Vegas, 1773 01:22:14.225 --> 01:22:20.106 why you didn't listen to when I say no, 1774 01:22:20.190 --> 01:22:23.568 when I screamed about, like, no. 1775 01:22:23.651 --> 01:22:26.905 I just said, "No!" 1776 01:22:26.946 --> 01:22:28.365 You know? - Mm-hmm. 1777 01:22:28.406 --> 01:22:31.743 - So you have to get some kind of message 1778 01:22:31.785 --> 01:22:34.746 from that kind of expression. 1779 01:22:34.829 --> 01:22:36.373 - I think I was ignoring, 1780 01:22:36.414 --> 01:22:37.832 like, deliberately, like, just ignoring. 1781 01:22:37.916 --> 01:22:40.043 - Because you-- you didn't have any room, 1782 01:22:40.085 --> 01:22:41.336 because you're too much self-centered 1783 01:22:41.419 --> 01:22:43.713 with your friend. - Yeah. Yeah. 1784 01:22:43.755 --> 01:22:45.882 Okay. So let me ask you this. 1785 01:22:45.924 --> 01:22:49.302 From that girl back in Las Vegas and now, 1786 01:22:49.386 --> 01:22:53.723 do you think I've progressed? 1787 01:22:53.765 --> 01:22:56.017 - Uh, I don't know. 1788 01:22:56.101 --> 01:22:59.187 Maybe physically, you are kind of adjusted, 1789 01:22:59.270 --> 01:23:01.898 and you are going fine. 1790 01:23:01.940 --> 01:23:05.735 But love, happiness, you have to develop 1791 01:23:05.777 --> 01:23:11.533 your own definition now. 1792 01:23:17.664 --> 01:23:23.294 - 30 days in jail on a reckless driving case, 1793 01:23:23.378 --> 01:23:27.132 30 days in jail on the first DUI case consecutive, 1794 01:23:27.173 --> 01:23:28.967 and 30 days in jail 1795 01:23:29.050 --> 01:23:33.013 on the second DUI case consecutive. 1796 01:23:33.096 --> 01:23:34.681 That's 90 days in jail. 1797 01:23:34.764 --> 01:23:37.267 - The surveillance video from the jewelry store 1798 01:23:37.308 --> 01:23:41.146 where Lindsay allegedly lifted a $2,500 necklace. 1799 01:23:41.229 --> 01:23:43.273 - Reality TV star Alexis Neiers, 1800 01:23:43.314 --> 01:23:44.899 jailed for her role 1801 01:23:44.983 --> 01:23:46.609 in the celebrity Bling Ring robberies, 1802 01:23:46.651 --> 01:23:50.113 claims she could hear Lohan crying in the next cell. 1803 01:23:50.989 --> 01:23:54.284 - Fame is often fleeting. 1804 01:23:54.325 --> 01:23:56.953 Celebrities are just people, and they're as happy 1805 01:23:56.995 --> 01:23:58.663 and as miserable as anybody else, 1806 01:23:58.747 --> 01:23:59.831 sometimes more so. 1807 01:24:03.585 --> 01:24:07.005 - Growing up, I myself desperately wanted 1808 01:24:07.047 --> 01:24:07.964 to be famous. 1809 01:24:08.006 --> 01:24:10.091 And part of the reason I went to school in LA 1810 01:24:10.175 --> 01:24:12.344 is because that was when "The Hills" was on. 1811 01:24:12.427 --> 01:24:14.137 Living here was like the Mecca. 1812 01:24:14.179 --> 01:24:16.139 I could finally go to all those places 1813 01:24:16.181 --> 01:24:17.599 that everyone had talked about. 1814 01:24:17.682 --> 01:24:20.560 And then when I got here and I realized that, like, 1815 01:24:20.643 --> 01:24:21.811 even when you're here, 1816 01:24:21.853 --> 01:24:26.775 it's just still a constant, like-- 1817 01:24:26.858 --> 01:24:28.360 no one's ever satisfied. 1818 01:24:28.401 --> 01:24:31.863 - I grew up in LA, but I'm not a-- 1819 01:24:31.905 --> 01:24:34.199 I'm not struck by celebrities. 1820 01:24:34.240 --> 01:24:37.118 Oh, you know, can I-- I mean, look. 1821 01:24:37.202 --> 01:24:39.162 When Snoop Dogg shot "Gin and Juice" near my house, 1822 01:24:39.204 --> 01:24:41.206 did I go and get his autograph? I sure did. 1823 01:24:41.289 --> 01:24:42.874 But I otherwise was not an autograph-getter. 1824 01:24:42.957 --> 01:24:43.917 That wasn't me. 1825 01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:45.502 I don't want to take a picture with a celebrity. 1826 01:24:45.543 --> 01:24:47.671 - There are people who actually, literally, 1827 01:24:47.712 --> 01:24:50.965 don't care that there are cameras everywhere. 1828 01:24:51.049 --> 01:24:52.967 Um, I'm not one of them. 1829 01:24:53.051 --> 01:24:54.636 - Do you wanna be famous? - Sure. 1830 01:24:58.431 --> 01:25:01.518 - My family, to this day, still don't have justice. 1831 01:25:01.559 --> 01:25:04.020 The authorities basically made us believe 1832 01:25:04.062 --> 01:25:06.064 that no matter how we pursue this, 1833 01:25:06.106 --> 01:25:07.565 nothing's gonna happen, 1834 01:25:07.649 --> 01:25:11.945 and there was nothing that we could do about it. 1835 01:25:12.028 --> 01:25:13.405 Corvette, Corvette. 1836 01:25:13.488 --> 01:25:15.156 It is not. 1837 01:25:15.240 --> 01:25:16.574 Corvette, Corvette-- 1838 01:25:16.616 --> 01:25:20.245 I've always felt like I should be capitalizing on this. 1839 01:25:20.286 --> 01:25:23.206 Corvette, Corvette. Hop in a-- 1840 01:25:23.248 --> 01:25:25.250 And it comes in waves because then at times, 1841 01:25:25.291 --> 01:25:28.211 I feel like, if I want to have a brand, 1842 01:25:28.253 --> 01:25:30.714 I don't want it to be the professional victim. 1843 01:25:30.755 --> 01:25:32.257 But at the same time, 1844 01:25:32.340 --> 01:25:35.969 the outcome could become a blessing 1845 01:25:36.052 --> 01:25:39.014 if I navigated it that way. 1846 01:25:39.097 --> 01:25:42.267 I have no gas and no friends. 1847 01:25:42.308 --> 01:25:43.435 [drumming on dashboard] 1848 01:25:43.518 --> 01:25:46.521 Around March 2020, I wanted to expand 1849 01:25:46.604 --> 01:25:48.356 my social media presence again, 1850 01:25:48.440 --> 01:25:50.442 and my videos weren't getting that many views. 1851 01:25:50.483 --> 01:25:52.277 And then I realized one day, like, 1852 01:25:52.318 --> 01:25:56.114 I have all these screenshots of Nick messaging me 1853 01:25:56.156 --> 01:25:57.282 and, like, all this proof 1854 01:25:57.365 --> 01:25:59.492 that I've put on my Facebook before 1855 01:25:59.576 --> 01:26:02.370 that I could just get together and post it on YouTube, 1856 01:26:02.454 --> 01:26:04.706 and hopefully, more people will see it. 1857 01:26:04.789 --> 01:26:06.332 I told the whole story. 1858 01:26:06.416 --> 01:26:07.959 Coming out of my parent's room. 1859 01:26:08.043 --> 01:26:09.085 I run out of the room. 1860 01:26:09.127 --> 01:26:10.670 Like, "Who died? What happened?" 1861 01:26:10.754 --> 01:26:12.339 And all I hear is, "Where's the money? 1862 01:26:12.422 --> 01:26:14.424 Where's all the money?" And I-- 1863 01:26:14.466 --> 01:26:16.801 It caught on and started getting more views, and then-- 1864 01:26:16.843 --> 01:26:18.178 - Enter Eden Hilton. 1865 01:26:18.261 --> 01:26:19.929 Eden has an insane storytime on his channel 1866 01:26:19.971 --> 01:26:21.890 about the Bling Ring, and you should go watch it. 1867 01:26:21.973 --> 01:26:23.975 This is his story that he told on his channel. 1868 01:26:24.059 --> 01:26:25.226 Them hanging out-- 1869 01:26:25.310 --> 01:26:26.478 - More people started reaching out to me, 1870 01:26:26.561 --> 01:26:29.564 and that reopened this case for me 1871 01:26:29.647 --> 01:26:31.566 in such a different way that I've never felt before. 1872 01:26:31.649 --> 01:26:33.818 I'm not gonna stop until I get justice. 1873 01:26:33.902 --> 01:26:36.446 And if I don't get justice, I will forever talk about it. 1874 01:26:36.488 --> 01:26:39.407 I don't have any bad blood with Nick anymore, 1875 01:26:39.491 --> 01:26:41.284 and we've spoken recently. 1876 01:26:41.326 --> 01:26:44.621 And it's not like I want his life to be ruined. 1877 01:26:44.662 --> 01:26:48.792 I would never let him into my home, 1878 01:26:48.833 --> 01:26:54.214 but I would maybe have, like, sushi with him 1879 01:26:54.297 --> 01:26:56.841 or something, just to talk in person. 1880 01:26:56.883 --> 01:27:00.512 All I really ever wanted, more than the money back 1881 01:27:00.553 --> 01:27:02.222 or notoriety or anything, 1882 01:27:02.305 --> 01:27:05.475 was for Nick and Rachel to apologize to me. 1883 01:27:12.357 --> 01:27:14.067 - People were hurt, 1884 01:27:14.150 --> 01:27:16.194 not physically, but emotionally, 1885 01:27:16.236 --> 01:27:17.862 and that's even worse. 1886 01:27:17.904 --> 01:27:19.406 Ugh. 1887 01:27:19.489 --> 01:27:22.117 It's really stressful thinking about the past, 1888 01:27:22.200 --> 01:27:24.953 'cause it's so far from where I am today. 1889 01:27:27.414 --> 01:27:31.167 It's quite disturbing, actually. 1890 01:27:31.209 --> 01:27:33.044 - What disturbs you? 1891 01:27:33.086 --> 01:27:35.005 - [sighs] 1892 01:27:35.046 --> 01:27:40.343 I think I, honestly, was a sociopath. 1893 01:27:40.427 --> 01:27:44.806 I think I honestly didn't care about anybody or anything. 1894 01:27:48.893 --> 01:27:51.938 My first proud moment came in fire camp. 1895 01:27:52.022 --> 01:27:54.399 - There are only 86 female prison inmates 1896 01:27:54.441 --> 01:27:56.192 in the entire county who work 1897 01:27:56.234 --> 01:27:58.361 at Malibu Conservation Camp 13. 1898 01:27:58.403 --> 01:27:59.863 Now it's a joint program 1899 01:27:59.904 --> 01:28:01.740 of the California Department of Corrections 1900 01:28:01.823 --> 01:28:03.283 and LA County Fire, 1901 01:28:03.366 --> 01:28:05.827 designed to help rehabilitate inmates. 1902 01:28:07.912 --> 01:28:10.290 - We got to work with LA Fire Department 1903 01:28:10.373 --> 01:28:14.294 and, you know, being a part of a community. 1904 01:28:14.377 --> 01:28:16.796 Through fire camp I found myself, 1905 01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:20.258 and I also was around women who wanted to be better 1906 01:28:20.300 --> 01:28:21.885 and who wanted to make changes in their life. 1907 01:28:21.926 --> 01:28:25.055 And everyone at fire camp was empowering each other, 1908 01:28:25.138 --> 01:28:27.307 so it was like the perfect last stop. 1909 01:28:31.102 --> 01:28:35.940 The week before I paroled, like, before I got out, 1910 01:28:36.024 --> 01:28:39.694 a tradition in prison is, like, you pass on your fortune 1911 01:28:39.778 --> 01:28:42.947 to the ones that, you know, kind of took care of you 1912 01:28:43.031 --> 01:28:44.783 when you were there. 1913 01:28:44.866 --> 01:28:46.743 I took everything that was in my locker, 1914 01:28:46.785 --> 01:28:49.245 and then I gave away all the food to my friends 1915 01:28:49.287 --> 01:28:51.373 and, like, my body stuff, like, face lotions, 1916 01:28:51.456 --> 01:28:53.625 and I just gave all my stuff away. 1917 01:28:56.419 --> 01:28:59.339 And then they're like, "Lee to the office," 1918 01:28:59.422 --> 01:29:01.132 and that means, like, you're getting out. 1919 01:29:01.174 --> 01:29:04.594 And so when when that happens, when somebody paroles, 1920 01:29:04.636 --> 01:29:09.516 everybody lines up to the fence where they can see you leave. 1921 01:29:09.599 --> 01:29:14.354 And so--and I remember all the girls were, like, cheering. 1922 01:29:14.437 --> 01:29:17.399 And they were so, like, happy for me. 1923 01:29:17.482 --> 01:29:19.693 And they're like, "You live your best life, girl!" 1924 01:29:19.776 --> 01:29:22.278 Like, "I better not see you here ever again," 1925 01:29:22.320 --> 01:29:24.155 and, "If I see you, I'm gonna kick your ass!" 1926 01:29:24.239 --> 01:29:25.573 You know? 1927 01:29:25.657 --> 01:29:27.450 Like, "You're dead, girl, you're dead, Lee, 1928 01:29:27.492 --> 01:29:29.160 if you come back here!" 1929 01:29:29.202 --> 01:29:32.080 And I was like, "Stop, guys." 1930 01:29:32.163 --> 01:29:34.416 Like, I'm--like, stop. You know? 1931 01:29:34.499 --> 01:29:38.044 And my mom and my stepdad had, like, balloons 1932 01:29:38.128 --> 01:29:40.005 and, like, welcome home-- 1933 01:29:40.088 --> 01:29:43.758 home. 1934 01:29:43.842 --> 01:29:45.385 [sniffling] 1935 01:29:45.468 --> 01:29:47.512 And then my mom was, like, "Oh, come see your room. 1936 01:29:47.554 --> 01:29:48.972 Come see your room." 1937 01:29:49.014 --> 01:29:51.057 And I was like, "Oh, my God, it's so cute." 1938 01:29:51.141 --> 01:29:52.267 Like, it was empty, 1939 01:29:52.308 --> 01:29:54.144 but there was, like, a mattress on the floor, 1940 01:29:54.227 --> 01:29:57.272 and I had, like, my box from prison. 1941 01:29:57.355 --> 01:30:02.694 And I just remembered feeling 1942 01:30:02.736 --> 01:30:05.530 like this is all that I need in the world. 1943 01:30:05.572 --> 01:30:07.198 I don't need anything else. 1944 01:30:07.282 --> 01:30:10.201 [soft music] 1945 01:30:10.285 --> 01:30:17.417 ♪ ♪ 1946 01:30:21.546 --> 01:30:23.340 - Hi. Welcome. 1947 01:30:23.381 --> 01:30:24.883 - Thank you. 1948 01:30:28.678 --> 01:30:30.805 Oh. 1949 01:30:30.889 --> 01:30:32.349 - I like the color. - Yeah. 1950 01:30:32.390 --> 01:30:33.391 - The color is really pretty. 1951 01:30:33.475 --> 01:30:34.559 - That mustard's pretty. 1952 01:30:34.601 --> 01:30:37.729 I've tried to make new friends. 1953 01:30:37.812 --> 01:30:40.899 But I have some trauma with friends. 1954 01:30:40.940 --> 01:30:44.694 [soft music] 1955 01:30:44.736 --> 01:30:48.156 When I look back to when Nick and I were actually friends, 1956 01:30:48.198 --> 01:30:50.200 our relationship was just crumbling 1957 01:30:50.241 --> 01:30:51.993 from the first day that we met. 1958 01:30:53.203 --> 01:30:56.915 To me, he's dangerous. 1959 01:30:56.956 --> 01:31:02.587 This is very extreme, what I'm going to say, 1960 01:31:02.629 --> 01:31:04.089 but it is my truth. 1961 01:31:04.172 --> 01:31:07.092 And to be honest, I feel like I was one of his victims. 1962 01:31:07.175 --> 01:31:09.260 I feel like he-- 1963 01:31:09.302 --> 01:31:11.638 I was the perfect person 1964 01:31:11.721 --> 01:31:18.728 that he could just dig his claws into and just-- 1965 01:31:22.691 --> 01:31:25.610 You know, there is only one scene from that movie 1966 01:31:25.694 --> 01:31:28.071 that I feel I'll never be able to forget. 1967 01:31:28.113 --> 01:31:30.448 - I love your shirt. 1968 01:31:30.490 --> 01:31:31.991 - Thank you. 1969 01:31:32.075 --> 01:31:38.123 - When my character is walking into school 1970 01:31:38.164 --> 01:31:39.457 it's, like, slow motion, 1971 01:31:39.499 --> 01:31:41.960 and the wind's, like, blowing in her hair, 1972 01:31:42.002 --> 01:31:45.463 and Nick's character's narrating over that scene. 1973 01:31:45.505 --> 01:31:46.798 And he says... 1974 01:31:46.840 --> 01:31:48.800 - I loved her almost like a sister. 1975 01:31:48.842 --> 01:31:50.719 That's what made this situation so hard. 1976 01:31:50.802 --> 01:31:52.387 - Like, "I loved her like a sister, 1977 01:31:52.470 --> 01:31:56.474 "and if I could do it all over again, 1978 01:31:56.558 --> 01:31:57.934 I wouldn't have hurt her." 1979 01:31:57.976 --> 01:32:01.479 And I just remember, like, when I was watching 1980 01:32:01.521 --> 01:32:02.981 that moment, 1981 01:32:03.023 --> 01:32:09.571 I knew that it was a message for me from him. 1982 01:32:09.654 --> 01:32:12.907 But I'll never allow him in my life again, 1983 01:32:12.949 --> 01:32:16.202 no matter what. 1984 01:32:16.286 --> 01:32:20.582 - ♪ And it falls down ♪ 1985 01:32:22.625 --> 01:32:25.295 [camera shutters snapping] 1986 01:32:30.508 --> 01:32:33.345 - Haven't you guys got enough now? 1987 01:32:33.428 --> 01:32:34.429 - Excuse me. 1988 01:32:34.512 --> 01:32:35.972 - You know, maybe back then, 1989 01:32:36.014 --> 01:32:38.016 when everyone was talking in the media, 1990 01:32:38.099 --> 01:32:39.559 I didn't trust myself, 1991 01:32:39.642 --> 01:32:40.894 because I didn't know-- 1992 01:32:40.977 --> 01:32:44.272 I didn't really know, like, what was, like-- 1993 01:32:44.314 --> 01:32:45.690 I didn't have my story straight. 1994 01:32:45.732 --> 01:32:46.858 And I still don't. 1995 01:32:46.941 --> 01:32:50.862 There's a lot of holes in my story. 1996 01:32:50.904 --> 01:32:53.156 - Do you think sometimes you lie 1997 01:32:53.198 --> 01:32:55.617 accidentally or unconsciously? - Yeah. 1998 01:32:55.700 --> 01:32:57.535 I--I do. I do. 1999 01:32:57.619 --> 01:32:59.245 I actually catch myself sometimes, 2000 01:32:59.329 --> 01:33:01.373 and they're very stupid lies. 2001 01:33:01.414 --> 01:33:03.792 [discordant music] 2002 01:33:03.875 --> 01:33:06.836 All of these members of this group, 2003 01:33:06.878 --> 01:33:11.383 every single one of our truths is truth, to thyself. 2004 01:33:11.466 --> 01:33:14.386 - Nick! 2005 01:33:14.469 --> 01:33:16.680 - Alexis. 2006 01:33:16.721 --> 01:33:18.807 - It's a footprint in time. 2007 01:33:18.890 --> 01:33:20.642 It's there forever. 2008 01:33:22.102 --> 01:33:27.899 But now I'm finally getting to know who I really am. 2009 01:33:29.734 --> 01:33:33.613 At least, I think so. 2010 01:33:33.697 --> 01:33:37.117 - ♪ Temptation pulling me today ♪ 2011 01:33:37.200 --> 01:33:39.369 ♪ Should I take the high road? ♪ 2012 01:33:39.411 --> 01:33:40.912 ♪ Should I stay away? ♪ 2013 01:33:40.954 --> 01:33:44.749 ♪ But we here and yeah, we on the same page ♪ 2014 01:33:44.791 --> 01:33:46.793 ♪ We feeling for that fakeness ♪ 2015 01:33:46.876 --> 01:33:48.586 ♪ Can you listen on this ♪ 2016 01:33:48.670 --> 01:33:50.755 ♪ I knew that I should show up ♪ 2017 01:33:50.839 --> 01:33:55.760 ♪ Own up to my compass pulled up ♪ 2018 01:33:55.802 --> 01:33:59.097 ♪ I need to put it undone ♪ 2019 01:33:59.180 --> 01:34:04.436 ♪ So sweet, got my pressure on up ♪ 2020 01:34:04.477 --> 01:34:06.938 ♪ I knew that I should show up ♪ 2021 01:34:06.980 --> 01:34:10.817 ♪ Own up to my compass pulled up ♪ 2022 01:34:12.485 --> 01:34:14.946 ♪ I need to put it undone ♪ 2023 01:34:14.988 --> 01:34:18.867 ♪ So sweet, got my pressure on up ♪ 2024 01:34:21.286 --> 01:34:24.664 ♪ Place it on me, stack it to the top ♪ 2025 01:34:24.748 --> 01:34:26.791 ♪ You know I like that curvy girl ♪ 2026 01:34:26.875 --> 01:34:28.585 ♪ Body don't stop ♪ 2027 01:34:28.626 --> 01:34:31.004 ♪ Let it drop, drop, drop, drop ♪ 2028 01:34:31.087 --> 01:34:34.883 ♪ Take it to the floor, we ain't got house so ♪ 2029 01:34:34.966 --> 01:34:36.468 ♪ Bitch asked me for more ♪ 2030 01:34:37.510 --> 01:34:38.345 [bright tone]