Crime & Safety
Boxer's Bag Stuffed With $150K Snatched At Jay-Z's Club: Report
Five women stole a bag filled with $150,000 of cash and jewelry from Jay-Z's Manhattan nightclub, the 40/40 Club.
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FLATIRON DISTRICT, NY — Five women stole $155,000 worth of cash and jewelry from a boxer while he partied at the 40/40 Club, the Flatiron nightclub co-owned by Jay-Z, according to police and media reports.
Police said a 27-year-old man was partying inside the club, located at 6 W. 25th St., Sunday at about 3 a.m. when he began arguing and then physically fighting with someone there. Police sources told the New York Daily News the man was professional boxer Jermall Charlo.
While Charlo was arguing with another person at the club, five women grabbed his unattended bag filled with cash and jewelry and left with it. The bag had about $40,000 in cash and another $115,000 worth of jewelry, according to the NYPD.
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Police are searching for the women, who haven't been identified or located since taking off with the bag. A friend of Charlo's is reportedly seen handing the bag to one of the women before the fight in surveillanec footage, according to the Daily News. The woman and four others left the club shortly after.
You can watch surveillance footage from the club here:
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Image credit: Courtesy of the NYPD
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