US EditionFrenchman Who Robbed Kim Kardashian Dies of Cancer Aged 69
- Didier Dubreucq and seven others were found guilty in May 2025 of stealing $10 million worth of jewellery from Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016.
- The robbery occurred during Paris Fashion Week and involved armed masked men who stormed Kardashian's apartment on October 2, 2016.
- The defendants, primarily men in their 60s and 70s known as the "grandpa robbers," did not return to prison after sentencing because the time they had already spent in pretrial detention was credited toward their sentences, while Dubreucq was receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer.
- Kardashian described the crime as the scariest moment she has ever faced, recalling that she feared she might be shot while lying on the bed during the incident.
- Dubreucq died aged 69 from lung cancer on June 26, 2025, just one month after the sentencing, underscoring the defendants’ serious health issues.
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Didier Dubreucq, one of the criminals involved in Kim Kardashian's spectacular robbery in Paris in 2016, died on Thursday 26 June at the age of 69. Sentenced on 23 May last, man, very weakened by the disease, had not attended the announcement of the verdict.
The man who was nicknamed "Blue Eyes" by the police died on Thursday 26 June from lung cancer, which had prevented him from attending, on 23 May, the verdict of the trial of the spectacular robbery in Paris of the queen of influencers.
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