A 27-year-old man was arrested Sunday afternoon on suspicion of burglarizing a Hidden Hills property owned by Kim Kardashian and stealing a vehicle for a brief neighborhood drive before deputies took him into custody.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies from the Lost Hills Station responded to the 24800 block of Long Valley Road just before 4 p.m. after security personnel reported seeing a man loading items into a vehicle at the estate. Officials said the suspect was located at the residence and taken into custody without incident. He was booked into Los Angeles County Jail on suspicion of burglary. Investigators have not released his name and said the probe remains ongoing.
Accounts differ on the precise details of entry and the vehicle involved. Law enforcement sources told multiple outlets that a security guard observed the man removing items and that he then drove a car around the gated community before being stopped. One report from a source close to Kardashian identified the vehicle as belonging to a staff member. Other accounts described it as one of the cars kept at the property. No weapons were found and no one was injured.
Kardashian, 45, and her four children have been staying in a nearby rental while the roughly $60 million estate undergoes renovations. The property was purchased in 2014 with her then-husband Kanye West for about $20 million and has been expanded over the years. After their divorce, Kardashian bought out his interest for a reported $23 million and has continued work on the compound. Sources close to her said she and the children were not living at the address at the time and disputed whether the suspect ever entered the main residence or took personal belongings, noting that little of her property remains there during construction.
Hidden Hills is a small, affluent, gated city on the western edge of the San Fernando Valley, adjacent to Calabasas. The estate sits on several acres and has been the subject of prior public attention for its size and design. Sheriff’s officials confirmed no one was home during the reported incident. LASD Sgt. Chris Sonderlund told reporters the matter is still in the preliminary stages of investigation. The arrest follows the pattern of a similar celebrity-home burglary in South Florida, where three suspects were taken into custody at another reality-TV personality’s residence.
This is not the first time Kardashian’s properties or vehicles have drawn criminal attention. HypeFresh has tracked the long-running fallout from her 2016 Paris heist, and in 2017, cars at a Bel Air residence she shared with West were vandalized. Years earlier, she was the victim of a high-profile armed robbery in Paris. A French court later convicted eight of the “grandpa robbers” responsible for the 2016 heist. Authorities have released no further details on the current suspect’s background or possible motive. The case remains under active investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
