US EditionThe Diamond Heist: Netflix plants real diamond in London billboard to launch Guy Ritchie's true-crime series
- A gang attempted to steal the £200 million Millennium Star diamond on November 7, 2000, at London's Millennium Dome.
- South-East London criminals planned the raid to steal the world's second-biggest flawless diamond.
- The robbers planned to use a bulldozer, smoke bombs, and a speedboat for their elaborate heist.
- Bill Cockram, a ringleader, later said, "There's a curse on this job like Brink's-Mat, you know."
- Police thwarted the plan, leading to arrests and sentences totaling over 70 years for gang members.
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Guns, greed, and glittering stones: The real story behind Netflix’s The Diamond Heist
It sounds like something out of a Guy Ritchie film: A bulldozer, a speedboat, and a 203-carat diamond at the center of it all. But the wild story at the heart of Netflix’s new true crime docuseries The Diamond Heist isn’t fiction — it really happened. From Executive Producer Guy Ritchie and the Emmy and Oscar-winning team at Lightbox, this three-part documentary dives deep into one of the boldest robbery attempts in modern British history. In th…
Netflix's Diamond Heist: How 'cursed' Millennium Dome raid was thwarted by police - The Mirror
In November 2000, a gang of thieves attempted to steal a diamond valued at an extraordinary £200million in what could have been the world's largest diamond heist in history
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