Kim Kardashian begged for her life early Monday as gunmen posing as cops gagged her and tied her up — then left her in the bathtub of her Paris apartment before making off with millions of dollars worth of jewelry, according to a report.
“She begged for them to let her live and [said] she has babies at home. Then they wrapped her mouth in tape and put her in the bathtub,” a source told E! News. “She thought they were for sure going to kill her.”
Kardashian then “broke out of her bindings and got out,” the source told E! News.
The reality TV star spoke with investigators before speeding off in a police-escorted van that blew through red lights en route to the Paris-Le Bourget Airport, where she boarded a private jet.
Her flight landed at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, where a convoy of several SUVs took her and her entourage to Manhattan.
Kardashian was attending Paris Fashion Week when five attackers — wearing ski masks and clothes with police markings — struck about 3 a.m. local time Monday at the exclusive Hotel de Pourtalès. Her family owns the apartment in which she stayed, a source told Page Six.
Two of them threatened the night concierge and forced him to open the door to Kardashian’s apartment, the French foreign minister told CNN. They entered and put a gun to her temple, sources said.
The gunmen then tied her up with packing tape, iTELE TV reported. They made off with between $5.6 million and $6.7 million worth of jewels and a ring worth about $4.5 million, a source told Reuters.
The attackers then fled on bicycles and the concierge was found in a staircase, his hands and feet bound.
Kardashian was “badly shaken but physically unharmed,” her publicist Ina Treciokas said.
A source close to Kardashian said her two children, 3-year-old daughter North and 10-month-old son Saint, were not with her in the apartment, according to reports.
The frightening crime prompted her husband, Kanye West, to end his Citi Field concert in the middle of the song “Heartless” and rush off the stage.
“I’m sorry, I have a family emergency, I have to stop the show,” West told the audience in video tweeted by fans at the Meadows Festival in Queens.
Fan reaction to West’s sudden departure was mixed — with some saying they understood that emergencies happen while others complained they had shelled out $300 for tickets and didn’t get their money’s worth.
Kardashian spent Sunday at the Balenciaga fashion show before going with sister Kourtney Kardashian to a dinner hosted by designer Azzedine Alaïa, People magazine reported.
Afterward, she communicated online with her brother, Rob, and his fiancée, Blac Chyna, to congratulate them at their baby shower, according to Kardashian’s Snapchat. She complained in her posting that her message to Rob was spoiled by a lack of sound.
A few minutes later, the attackers entered her apartment, where she was not being protected by her main bodyguard, the Daily Mail reported.
Pascal Duvier was away protecting her sisters, who were at the Arc nightclub at the time, the paper reported.
The mayor of the city’s 8th arrondissement, or district, said she was “furious” about the brazen attack, calling it the work of organized criminals who impersonate police, Paris Match reported.
“The whole world is talking about this story … because it’s Kim Kardashian. The image of Paris will still take a hit,” she said. “We must stop these offenders as soon as possible!”
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo reacted on Twitter to the assault.
“I condemn the aggression suffered last night by @KimKardashian in Paris and I want to tell her that she will always be welcome in Paris,” she wrote.
The incident comes just days after another security scare for Kardashian, when celebrity prankster Vitalii Sediuk tried to plant a kiss on her famous derrière as she arrived at a restaurant in Paris. Duvier tackled the interloper.