In December 2019, the home of F1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone was ransacked by criminals, and jewellery valued at around £26 million ($AUD54.24 million) was stolen.
The property was located on ‘Billionaires Row’ in London, the site of a January burglary in which £10.4 million ($AUD20.77 million) worth of jewellery was stolen.
In January 2020, two people were arrested at Heathrow Airport in possession of some of the jewellery stolen from the Ecclestone property. The pair were subsequently cleared of all charges. One year later, three Italian men were arrested and convicted of committing the robbery.
The Daily Mail has released a new podcast, Heists, Scams and Lies: The Hunt for Tamara Ecclestone's Diamonds, providing new details into the stunning theft. The series follows crime reporters George Odling and Andy Jehring as they investigate the robbery.
Another remarkable detail, revealed by Ecclestone’s husband, Jay Rutland, is that the couple was unable to make an insurance claim for any of the stolen jewellery.
“Our total insurance claim was for, I think, 40 grand or 45 grand, something like that, which was for the doors in the house because [the burglars] literally smashed down about 25 or 30 doors,” he told The Daily Mail.
“If you can imagine, every door to every room was locked. So that meant they had to crowbar each door open. So, I remember we claimed on the insurance for those doors to be replaced, but that was it. Nothing else was insured.”
Despite the conviction of three men for the crime, the whereabouts of the jewellery remains unknown, and the podcast details a mysterious fourth conspirator believed to have at least 19 different aliases.
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