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  • The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World

  • By: Nancy Jo Sales
  • Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy
  • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World

By: Nancy Jo Sales
Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy
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Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, this is the explosive true story of the seven celebrity-obsessed teens who became the most audacious burglary gang in Hollywood history.

It’s 19 September 2010, and 21-year-old Rachel Lee has emerged from Los Angeles Superior Court, having just been sentenced to four years behind bars.

A few months earlier, she had been running the Bling Ring: a gang of rich, beautiful, wild-living Valley teens who idolised celebrity, designer labels and luxury brands. Who, in 2009, became the most audacious thieves in recent Hollywood history.

In a case that has shocked the nation, the seven schoolfriends stole millions of dollars’ worth of clothing, jewellery and possessions from the sprawling mansions of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom, among others – using gossip websites, Google Earth and Twitter to aid their crimes.

But what made these kids – all of whom already enjoyed designer clothes, money, cars and social status – gamble with their lives at such high stakes?

Journalist Nancy Jo Sales, the author of Vanity Fair’s acclaimed exposé of the Bling Ring, gained unprecedented access to the group to answer that question. In the process she uncovered a world of teenage greed, obsession, arrogance and delusion that surpassed her wildest expectations.

Now, for the first time, Sales tells their story in full. Publishing to tie into Sofia Coppola’s film of the same name, this is a fascinating look at the dark and seedy world of the real young Hollywood.

©2013 Nancy Jo Sales (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Very disappointing

The narration of this book was very disappointing. The narrator's punctuation was all over the place; she would pause and you would think you were starting another sentence and then she would continue with the line she had just paused from. Extremely disjointed and very difficult to listen to.

I cannot recommend this book at all.

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