Yunice Abbas told ABC News he only knew Kim Kardashian was the "wife of an American rapper" prior to the 2016 heist on her Paris hotel room.

One gangster was Yunice Abbas, a 55-year-old mechanic of Algerian ancestry with a career spanning five decades. In 1978, after 13 years of employment, Yunice opened a car accessory workshop next to ...

Eight people have been found guilty of a violent robbery of Kim Kardashian in a Paris hotel in a $10m jewellery heist that left the celebrity traumatised.

In an interview with ABC News, Yunice Abbas, one of the convicted robbers, said he didn't even know who Kardashian was at the time. "I was always told 'wife of an American rapper,'" Abbas said.

Nine men and one woman were accused of planning and carrying out the armed robbery during Paris Fashion Week. Years of French bureaucracy delayed the trial by almost a decade.

A court in the French capital decided the verdict in the trial of the 'grandpa robbers' accused of stealing millions of dollars of Kardashian's jewerly.

The robbers have been given jail time for stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery belonging to the US celebrity.

In an interview with ABC News, Yunice Abbas, one of the convicted robbers, said he didn't even know who Kardashian was at the time. "I was always told 'wife of an American rapper,'" Abbas said. The ...

71-year-old Yunice Abbas, has already written a book about the heist. He had previously served 20 years for burglary. On Friday Abbas was sentenced to 7 years in prison, with most of that suspended.

Yunice Abbas (left) and his lawyer, Gabriel Dumenil, leaving his robbery trial at the Paris courthouse on May 23, 2025. TERESA SUAREZ / EPA The defendants in the Kim Kardashian robbery trial owe a ...