In 2009, seven audacious teenagers broke into multiple A-lister celebrity homes in California, on multiple accounts. Stealing almost $3 million in merchandise, victims of the burglaries include Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge, and more. When word broke loose of these group of robbers known as the Bling Ring, everyone wanted to know how and why. Journalist Nancy Jo Sales took on the challenge to dig deep into the teenagers' juvenile, immature, crazy minds. She writes The Bling Ring to publish the motives and tell the story of the robbery case that left Hollywood scratching their heads.
Sales uses detailed imagery and anecdotes to reveal the real story, coming from the teenagers themselves through interviews. She also integrates psychological statistics to get behind the reasons of the crime. The teenagers lived in the affluent city of Calabasas, California outside of Los Angeles. What more would a teenager need growing up in a city like that? The answer: everything. Our society is so obsessed with getting closer and closer to owning everything they can, spending every cent if it makes them happier and presentable with more materials. For the Bling Ring, it was that, and more. Each stolen item brought them closer to living the Hollywood dream. It wasn't the money they wanted, it was the obsession with being famous. The purpose Sales portrays is to inform about the wild desire to be that much closer to being a Hollywood celebrity, and the consequences the teenagers' endured because of that. Sales achieved her purpose by explaining the story and digging deeper into the motives of the teenagers.
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