The LA Times has to be one of the worst newspapers in the United States. The only thing the LA Times had going for it was its celebrity & entertainment industry coverage, and the LA Times has even managed to screw that up with bloggers getting bigger scoops than the city's only newspaper. But last night, as I was waiting in a hotel lobby for my dinner guests to arrive, I read what has to be the most fascinating LA Times story of 2009.
Over the course of late 2008 & continuing into 2009, there were over 10 celebrity homes broken into, usually younger stars - Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Rachel Bilson, Meghan Fox, Ashley Tisdale, Audrina Partridge, etc. No one knew what was going on, until yesterday's story broke with the arrests of several teenage girls and boys from Augora Hills Continuation High School. (A continuation high school is where older teenagers to to finish high school - such as, if a girl gets pregnant, did some jail time, so these were already problem kids).
According to the police reports, the teenagers would watch TMZ, read Perez Hilton.com, TMZ's website, and other celebrity blog sites, choose the hangbag, jewelry, shoes, watches, whatever that they saw the celebrities wear that they wanted and then using the same websites, track when the celebrities were out of LA (at an awards show, attending a premiere or travelling overseas), break into their homes and steal the same items they saw online! Insane! It's taking celebrity stalking to a whole new, and scary level. (And don't these celebrities have home security systems - they have cameras - see the photo above, but just locks on the doors?)
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