The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World
The Bling Ring by Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales is an in-depth expose of a band of beautiful, privileged teenagers who were caught breaking into celebrity homes and stealing millions of dollars worth of valuables.With a list of victims that reads like a "Who's Who" of young Hollywood,...
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The Bling Ring by Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales is an in-depth expose of a band of beautiful, privileged teenagers who were caught breaking into celebrity homes and stealing millions of dollars worth of valuables.With a list of victims that reads like a "Who's Who" of young Hollywood, including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton, and Rachel Bilson, The Bling Ring is the stuff of writers' imaginations—with one exception—it's a true story.The media asked: Why would a group of kids who already had designer clothes, money, cars, and status take such risks? Award-winning journalist Nancy Jo Sales found the answer: They did it because they could. And because it was easy.The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World is a shocking look at the seedy world of the real young Hollywood.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062245533 (0062245538)
Publish date: May 21st 2013
Publisher: It Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Adult,
Mystery,
Culture,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Crime,
True Crime,
Pop Culture
While I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this book. I think that it mostly had to do with me being obsessed with this story. The one thing that bugged me was that I felt she gave too much detail on things that didn't really matter. I do understand that she was trying to get us into the minds of th...
The text goes into the brain like a buttermint, but I'm not sure there was a reason to make it book-length. It was obviously rushed to publication - I spotted at least 2 mistakes, an error in the title of the movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno (the book thinks her name is Mimi) and a misspelling of Ad...
This review and others are posted at Read, Rinse, Repeat.This story fascinated me when it was all over the news several years ago. I read all the gossip sites. I even watched The Lifetime movie. The upcoming film from Sofia Coppola has been on my radar for a while, in no small part because I want...