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Banking heiress Kate Rothschild's home raided for £500k in jewels as her children slept upstairs
Evening Standard UK ^
| 26 April 2018
| Justin davenport
Posted on 04/27/2018 7:06:47 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
Raiders broke into the home of banking heiress Kate Rothschild escaping with up to £500,000 worth of jewels and valuables as her children slept upstairs.
The burglars scaled a rear wall to enter her bedroom at her new home in Barnes, fleeing with a large jewellery box containing all her valuables, including an antique diamond dragonfly brooch and wedding and engagement rings.
Ms Rothschild, 35, pictured, returned home with her boyfriend, entrepreneur Paul Forkan, after a night out and only realised something was wrong when she could not get into her bedroom. Mr Forkan climbed through an open bedroom window and found the room had been locked by the intruders from the inside. There was little sign of a break-in but a search revealed a pink jewellery box gone.
The Thomas Goode box is said by friends to have contained “everything precious” to Ms Rothschild, including wedding and engagement rings from her former marriage to financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith.
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Mr Goldsmith, 37 — younger brother of Tory MP Zac and son of billionaire Sir James — told the Standard: “They took every single thing of value Kate has, her wedding ring, engagement ring, everything I gave her during our marriage, special things from when she was a teenager, things from her father and her grandmother.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: billionaires; katerothschild; rothschild; rothschilds; theft
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To: WisconsinRep
She kept jewelry of that value at home, and not locked in a safe?
And they had no security alarm systems on the windows?
All that money, and no security guard?
Maybe they are that stupid. OTOH, maybe there is something wrong with this picture?
(Recall the plot of “Beau Geste”?)
To: WisconsinRep
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:09:46 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: WisconsinRep
Hmmmmmmmmmmm ...
... Rothschild
To: WisconsinRep
Sometimes the people steal back.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:12:49 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: WisconsinRep
No safe, no alarms, no cameras? I guess they couldn’t afford it.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:12:58 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Fresh Wind
“Insurance scam?”
The Rothschilds apparently have been short of money; they sold an immense piece of property in Austria lately (the size of Manhattan).
Not saying it was for the insurance, but... Colombo might
start to ask “one last question...” based on the apparent ease with which the robbery was made.
(MOO)
To: WisconsinRep
“Hot” burglaries like this are rather rare in the US. My, my, could it be because the perps run the risk of being fatally shot every time they try it? An how does Ms Rothchild feel about the 2d Amendment?
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:16:14 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: CondorFlight
Well at the very least I would think an alarm system would have been in place. I’ll bet she invests in one now.
To: Fresh Wind
Maybe - they just ‘happened’ to forget to activate the alarm system before a night out on the town.
Cameras broke again? Drats!
Fortunately they have Lloyds of London on speed dial...
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:16:41 AM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: CondorFlight
Agreed.
Almost $700k in jewelry...AT HOME...NOT in a safe???
She inherited almost $25 mill, when her dad passed.
Plus whatever she got when she was divorced her husband.
$2K for a 1000 pound safe would have been cheap insurance.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:17:37 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: CondorFlight
the only thing she seems not to have inherited is family values. What a skuzbucket.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:17:57 AM PDT
by
Segovia
To: CondorFlight
Agreed, it sounds absurd for somebody at that level of wealth not having a security system, or better yet a guard on duty, especially with her children in the house. The emergence of bitcoin creates the ability to pay kidnap ransom, with little risk to the kidnappers.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: wastoute
‘Don’t. This ain’t 4chan.’
+1
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:20:34 AM PDT
by
Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: WisconsinRep
She’s a Rothchild and can’t afford a vault in her house? Who leaves $500k laying around the bedroom?
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:20:43 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: CondorFlight
To: WisconsinRep
To: All
How does a security alarm work if people are in the house sleeping?
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:27:58 AM PDT
by
madison10
(Pray for President Trump.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Obviously people for whom $500,000 is a rounding error.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:28:29 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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