Rachel Lee Robbery Ring Leader

Police say that Rachel Lee (19), above left, is considered to be the "master mind" of the robberies, or burglaries, of the celebrity homes of Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan, Hayden Panettiere, Rachel Bilson, and Audrina Patridge.
Lee was arrested on Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Law enforcement claim Lee is suspected of organizing a plan to steal cash, jewelry, clothing, luggage, purses, and other personal items. When Lee was busted, cops impounded a variety of items from her father’s Las Vegas home, including two laptops, photographs of a partially n*de woman (Paris Hilton), photographs of Lee’s friends, more than two hundred $100 bills, a Korean passport and a vial of marijuana.
Cops found a series of items that may have been taken from various celebrity homes. The items include a hat linked to Lindsay Lohan, jeans linked to Rachel Bilson, and partially n*de photographs linked to Paris Hilton.

Police also arrested Nicholas Prugo (above), who police suspect was just as involved as Lee. Prugo has a previous narcotics conviction, according to reports.

Burgulary suspect Alexis Neiers (above), aka Alexis Taylor, says Nick Prugo was definitely involved:
"I know for a fact Nick did all of these burglaries. He did every single burglary, he told me this after the police let him go. Nick is blaming people, trying to get the blame off himself."
Alexis then described the roles of the other four suspects:
"Rachel Lee was his [Prugo’s] main accomplice, and they brought Diana Tamayo into this. Diana, Nick and Rachel did the burglaries together. Roy Lopez was the one who sold the stuff they had taken, and he’s friends with Courtney Ames and that’s why she was arrested."
Alexis finished up by explaining how she got caught up in the investigation, saying:
"The only reason they came to my house was because they thought I was holding property for Nick, they even searched my house and found nothing. I’m innocent in all of this and feel terrible for all the people who got robbed."
Why would Prugo, and all those other criminals, feel they could trust Alexis with details about their crimes? If she knows too much, she could also be involved.
Cops say the search warrants were issued in Los Angeles, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park and Las Vegas, and during one of the searches, "three firearms and a large amount of narcotics" were found."
Cops also say property recovered during the searches "was among that stolen during a series of burglaries committed at the residences of well known celebrities."

Courtney Ames (above) was also arrested after police found a picture, on Prugo’s computer, of Ames holding a ton of money in her hands. Alexis says Ames only got arrested because she is friends with Roy Lopez. Really? We don’t buy the stories Alexis is telling, and we doubt police are either. If they can find the evidence Alexis will probably be headed to jail next.
Paris Hilton Got Her Head Cut Off on Supernatural

Paris Hilton did some acting in Supernatural on the CW, where she played a demon god, then got her head cut off in the end.
We love happy endings.
Nicholas Prugo Arrested for Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge Burglaries

So police arrested Nicholas Prugo for breaking into the homes of, and robbing, both Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge burglaries, and although he had help from a girl, police haven’t arrested her. People says:
The culprit caught on security videos in both Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge’s home burglaries has been arrested, Los Angeles police announced.
Nicholas Prugo, 18, was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the two break-ins. He was charged with felony burglary and is being held on $20,000 bail, police records show.
Lohan’s mother Dina tells PEOPLE, "Yes, we have found [him], God is good."
Lohan’s Hollywood Hills home was burglarized last month by a young man and woman in which a safe was ripped out of the wall, and bags, shoes and jewelry were stolen.
In February, the apparent same pair broke into Patridge’s Los Angeles home and was caught on tape making off with several bags of her possessions.
So far, police have only confirmed the arrest of Prugo. "As of now we just have this one person in custody, and the investigation is ongoing," says LAPD spokeswoman Karen Rayner.
The break-ins were among a rash of recent starlet burglaries in the past year, all within several miles of each other. Paris Hilton, Hayden Panettiere and Rachel Bilson have also been victimized, but Prugo was not arrested in those cases.
We’ve seen reports that said Lindsay knew the robber. Have police talked to her yet?
Paris Hilton Escapes Paying Damages Over Pledge This Lawsuit

Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom on Friday July 10, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand.
Once on the stand, though, Hilton was businesslike when it came to defending herself against an $8 million lawsuit’s claim that she didn’t do her part to promote the 2006 box-office bomb “Pledge This!” She acknowledged in court the movie didn’t turn out very well but insisted she plugged it for everything she was worth.
“If I have my name attached to something, I want it to be as big as it can be,” the 28-year-old heiress, model and actress testified. “It could have been a lot better if it was done more professionally. I wanted it to do as well as possible.”
Hilton is accused by an investor’s lawsuit of turning her back on the film, a box office bomb that made just $2.9 million, at a crucial time when it was being released on DVD and in foreign markets. The lawsuit seeking $8.3 million in damages claims she violated her contract by rejecting or ignoring requests by producers to appear on talk shows and do radio and magazine interviews for the film.
Hilton insisted she was never told her contract required appearances after the October 2006 premiere of “Pledge This!” and said she spent more than two years promoting it beforehand, including two high-profile trips to the Cannes Film Festival in France.
The trial is being heard by Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno, who reacted with surprise when Hilton gave him a little wave before testifying. “I’ve never had a witness wave at me before,” the judge cracked.
At one point, Hilton was testifying about how full her schedule was during rehearsals for her next film, 2008’s “The Hottie & The Nottie,” when Moreno interrupted.
“Was it better than this one?” the judge said, referring to “Pledge This!”
“It was really good,” Hilton answered with a giggle. Along with the heels, Hilton wore an all-black sleeveless dress tied at the back and sported diamond rings and a bracelet.
Testimony was expected to conclude July 10, but it was unclear when Moreno would issue a ruling. If he finds Hilton breached her contract, a separate proceeding could be held to determine any damages.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Michael Goldberg, a court-appointed receiver for a now-defunct entertainment company that was the major investor in “Pledge This!” The company, Worldwide Entertainment Group, was shut down as a $300 million Ponzi scheme by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Goldberg is attempting to recoup losses for some 3,300 investors.
Goldberg said Friday July 10 he put up the final $600,000 from his receivership account to complete the movie in hopes that Hilton’s promotion prowess would enable it to turn a profit. He said her unwillingness to do events after the premiere was the reason it lost money.
“I said, ’Just do one little thing and you’ll never hear from me again,”’ Goldberg told Moreno. “We had no support whatsoever.
Paris Hilton will not have to pay $8.3m in damages for failing to promote the 2006 turkey Pledge This! a court found yesterday, but she may yet have to return a proportion of her $1m acting fee, US district judge Federico Moreno said in Miami.
Paris Hilton will not have to pay $8.3m in damages for failing to promote the 2006 turkey Pledge This! a court found yesterday. But she may yet have to return a proportion of her $1m acting fee, US district judge Federico Moreno said in Miami.
In his ruling, Moreno also said he was finding against the Pledge This! producers because the film was "hardly destined for critical acclaim". The film currently sits at No 27 on the Internet Movie Database’s user-voted list of the worst movies of all time, thanks in large part to the terrible acting performed by Paris Hilton.
The first mistake Pledge This! producers made was hiring Paris. The second was paying her a top acting fee of $1 million, which even Paris knew was a fool’s ransome for someone of her poor quality acting skills.
Paris Hilton Release Sample Music
Paris Hilton is looking for a label, any label, to distribute her new music CD. In an effort to achieve her goal Paris released this sampler with such Paris classics as Platinum Blonde, Girl Tax, Crave, and Jailhouse Baby.
As far as we know Paris has not had any takers. Let’s hope record labels are smart, and keep Paris’ music in her head where it belongs.
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