Friday 24 May 2013

"Cannes jewel thieves hit Sharon Stone party and steal £1.7m necklace in film festival's second heist"

From The Daily Mail:

A necklace worth at least 1.7 million pounds and due to be worn by Hollywood beauties like Cameron Diaz has been stolen at the Cannes Film Festival.

The mystery theft is the second to blight the glamorous French Riviera showbusiness spectacular inside a week. It happened at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, where the cheapest rooms cost more than 800 pounds a night.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of several of the guests, including Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peirce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Also wanted for questioning are George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts.


UPDATE: Lt. Vincent Hanna out of "Heat" was removed from the investigating team after it emerged that there was likely to be a personal conflict of interest. Not only was Tony Montana out of "Scarface" on the list of suspects but also that the jewellery belonged to Willy Bank out of "Ocean's Thirteen".

4 comments:

Macheath said...

Nice one!

Presumably detectives are working on the assumption that this is a copycat crime inspired by Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/

Anonymous said...

McH, exactly.

I was wondering whether to send in Al Pacino the detective from "Heat" to interrogate Al Pacino the suspect gangster, but that might have got a bit too confusing. Especially as he's blind.

Tim Almond said...

Al Pacino was also the victim of the crime. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496806/

Mark Wadsworth said...

TS, good point. I have updated accordingly.