Kim Kardashian during the Vanity Fair Oscars evening in Beverly Hills, the United States, March 2, 2025 (AFP / Michael Tran)
Their job, they say, is to be discreet, available, whatever the desires of their luxury customers. Even more when her name is Kim Kardashian. At the Parisian robbery trial of the American star, drivers and bodyguard told this “famous” evening of October 2, 2016.
Michaël Madar is 48 years old, shaved skull and small glasses. He has fled Dubai since this case, a “legal reality TV” which earned him a brief police custody. His little brother is on the accused’s bench, suspected of having transmitted information to the thugs that allowed the robbery of 9 million euros in jewelry.
At the time of the facts, Michaël Madar directed “the best company” of concierge and transport in Paris – “besides all the competitors were reveling from our fall”, crinks the bitter witness. The Kanye West and Kim Kardashian couple is a big customer, who earns them 300-400,000 euros per year.
During this Fashion Week 2016, it is he who drives Kim Kardashian, of parades “where they are waiting for her to start the show” in appointments, evenings or dinners. The pace is intense, but the star is “hyper cordial”, always a “good night or thank you” underlines Michaël Madar.
Sometimes when he brings her back to the hotel, he smiles in front of the Paris Assize Court, she asks him to stop the car “in the middle of the street” to do the last meters under the paparazzi flashes that follow it “everywhere, all the time”.
The Parisian life of the Kardashian interests his little brother Gary Madar a lot, who works regularly for him, to believe the many messages he sends.
“Lol yesterday’s outfit”. “And tonight, they will still take out the oys?” He asked the morning of the robbery.
“A discussion of brothers, there is nothing strange,” says Michaël Madar.
On the evening of the facts, on October 2, Kim Kardashian and his sisters hesitate to come out. “It is played in 10 minutes”, “these people are unpredictable”. Kim finally decides to stay, but not her sister Kourtney and her friends who want to go to a nightclub.
Michaël Madar, “washed”, who has been working since “9 pm” consecutive and must be at 7:30 am at the hotel to take Kim Kardashian to the airport the next day, calls a driver to replace him.
– “They left” –
It will be Mohamed Q., black Jean and Sweat, 35 years old, not delighted to be at the helm. “I don’t even know why I’m here.”
However, it was he who came back on the side of the hotel around 3:00 am, with the bodyguard that followed the other sister Kardashian in a nightclub.
“I realize that Kim tried to call me, I remind her, she does not answer. And I receive a message from her stylist who tells me that she hears noise and steps,” describes the bodyguard Pascal D., 52, heard in videoconferencing from the United States.
He jumps into the driver’s car. “Roll quickly, calls the police,” he said to Mohamed Q. who runs.
The two men rush into the hotel. Finally, Mohamed Q., who is visibly suffering from “total amnesia” as ironized by lawyer general, is convinced that he remained on the sidewalk. Before the president of the court reminded him that it was he who discovered the “feet and wrists” receptionist linked on the service staircase.
Audience sketch of April 28, 2025 at the opening of the trial for theft and sequestration in 2016 of the American influencer Kim Kardashian at the Paris Assize Court (AFP / Benoit Peyrucq)
“I don’t remember”.
“Do you not remember having seen a tied man?” Answin out President David de Pas. “Have you not been marked by this story at all?”.
“Ah no frankly not at all”.
But “the whole world is aware”, strangles the magistrate.
Fortunately for the Court, Pascal D. has better memory. “When I arrive at the hotel, the receptionist is not there. I see that the elevator is at level 1, the floor where Kim lived”.
“They left,” said the receptionist tied up on the stairs. Pascal D. rushes, finds Kim Kardashian “in all her states, she cries hysterically”.
“I ask what happened, she tells me that she has just been robbed.”
The hearing resumes on Monday, Kim Kardashian will testify on Tuesday.
