New Details On Kim's Stolen Engagement Ring Emerge
Oct. 7 2016, Updated 2:01 p.m. ET
After arriving back in Los Angeles, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West beefed up on their security detail, with a fleet of SUVs following them at all times.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrive at Teterboro Airport with security in tow
Meanwhile, recently uncovered insurance claims have revealed new details of Kim's stolen jewels. The star's 20-karat Lorraine Schwartz emerald cut diamond engagement ring was valued at $4 million, according to one claim, making up the majority of the now estimated $5.6 million that was stolen (it was previously thought to be $10 million that had been taken).
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrive at Teterboro Airport with security in tow
"Kim's in shock and blaming herself. She's tearing herself up that she Snapchatted the ring so much and wore it all the time," a source told The New York Daily News. "This incident is making her question everything. How she dresses, what she does."
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrive at Teterboro Airport with security in tow
As RadarOnline.com readers know, Kardashian was held at gunpoint inside her room in Paris in the wee hours of Monday morning, local time, and robbed of millions of dollars worth of jewelry. Sources say five masked men dressed as police officers were on the scene. Two of the robbers entered Kim's room, tied up her hands and feet with tape and locked her in the bathroom before stealing a box containing jewelry items worth $6.7 million, as well as her $4.5 million engagement ring, police sources told La Parisien.
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From this point on, insiders say the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star plans to scale way back on her social media presence.
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Meanwhile, just days before the incident, Kardashian revealed the romantic story behind her now-stolen engagement ring.
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During The Girls' Lounge dinner at Advertising Week 2016 in NYC on September 27, Kim told host Andy Cohen that hubby Kanye pimped out the ring after he closed a huge Adidas deal.
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"So I was sleeping and he woke me up in the middle of the night and said, 'Babe, babe! I got you something from Adidas.' And I said, 'OK, I'll get the shoes in the morning, babe, I'm sleeping.' And then he put the Lorraine Schwartz box on my pillow. . .and I woke up! . . .He said, 'You know I just did that big Adidas deal, so I got you something from Adidas,'" she said of the $4.5 million 20-carat emerald cut diamond.
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Kardashian also revealed that the ring had the word "Adidas" engraved on the inside.
Kim Kardashian and family step out for the first time since she was robbed in Paris
But diamond experts told Us Weekly that Kim's chances of getting her bling back in one piece are "slim to none," thanks to a "sophisticated criminal enterprise, like the Pink Panthers, who will know how to remove the location numbers a.k.a. tracking from the diamond."