£50 million quids worth of jewels nicked from Tamara Ecclestone

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My first and only thought is "I hope the security staff patrolling her compound are fine"

*conscience!

It’s not like they’re going to be family heirlooms. They must be insured and so easily replaced. In their shoes is he grateful that the burglary was successful because it meant that no one was hurt.

Will the insurance pay out given she posted on Instagram that she was on holiday?

Immediately upon reading it I thought 'inside job.'

There's no way outsider burglars are going to get around a 57 room mansion, avoiding security and finding a hidden safe.

She goes on holiday at least once a month or so it seems from her instagram and always tells people they are away. Definitely and inside job but the poor security men from that street are in big trouble even if they had nothing to do with it.

I've just unfollowed 2 family members who have decided that as she's rich she doesn't deserve any sympathy as a victim of crime.
That's a slippery slope and I think it's a
Bloody horrible thing to say.

I read it in the EveningStandard on the way home.. the next page was the article about the 'homeless Christmas appeal' ...
no one got hurt , I really can't get too misty eyed about someone spending that amount of money on jewellery. Unearned wealth makes it all the more distasteful.

I’m not sure how in good conscious you could own jewellery worth that much.

Indeed. On a moral level I'm not sure whether owning £50 million in jewels is better than nicking £50 million in jewels. Both seem like pretty terrible life choices to me.

I'm with those who think spending that amount of jewellery is obscene, on a par with transfer fees of top footballers, and other equally obscene amounts of money.
If I had my house broken into and my jewellery stolen I'd expect the same service from th EP olive as she got, but I doubt I'd get it. And before you ask, I've got 1 plain wedding ring, a diamond eternity ring worth about £500, 3 silver bracelets, and a silver necklace.

Wonder if the insurance will pay out... She broadcast on sm that she was on holiday!

How much jewellery can someone own before it becomes obscene?
Jewels worth £1million? £100,000?
As a pp said, the proceeds of a few thousand pounds worth of jewellery could do good.

I'm of the opinion that people can spend their money on what they want (legal obv)

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TBH all of you saying how much good it could do have no idea what she does for charity in private. Her money, her choice what she spends it on.
It’s not nice for anyone’s home to be burgled, it’s a horrible invasion of privacy.

And like a PP said, I’d also like to know (just coz I’m nosy and I like sparkly things) what kind of stuff they keep in the banks if this is what is kept at home.

I'm of the opinion that people can spend their money on what they want

Of course they can. Others are equally free to judge the fuck out of them for being selfish and shallow.

Do you not buy anything nice then?

TBH all of you saying how much good it could do have no idea what she does for charity in private.

He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, 'Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.

I'm a jeweller. I'm not loaded like them but if you're talking percentages, then I probably have a jewellery collection equalling a similarly.percentage of the money in my back as her.
I love jewellery. I love everything about it. And I love that when I'm gone, it will still be here and be worn by m descendants (I hope). If I had her wealth, I'd spend 50 million or more on jewellery too.

Do you not buy anything nice then?

Not really, no; but that's not the point. People can, of course, buy nice things but that level of unearned excess is something different.

Unearned excess. Lol. Her dad has given it to her and he has every right to!!

The virtue signalling on this thread is unreal.

I had a serious case of deja vu when I heard this today. Has a similar jewel theft happened before to her or her Sister?

Like the Kim Kardashian theft I think the ultra rich need to take a step away from Social Media and consider how much information they are putting out there.

I also thought how obscene to have jewellery worth that much. Yes it’s her money, but there comes a point when you’re just buying for the sake of it

Theoretically people can spend what they like on whatever they like, if they can afford it.

In reality, I don't spend anything like what I could spend on unnecessary stuff. Because it feels wrong. I don't need to spend that much on the thing that's not vital to my life. And the various projects I'm involved with here and abroad have brought home to me how many people are in need and how a small amount of money used wisely can transform people's lives.

Anyway, this isn't intended to be a pious post. But I do genuinely think that, while logically, someone's money is theirs to do with as they like, owning £50m worth of jewellery is immoral in some sense.

I have sympathy that they were broken into but I do think the amount they flaunt their wealth is obscene.

Bernie has spent most of his life trying to avoid paying tax in the UK and when he sold F1 immediately transferred the billions off shore. Think of that next time you see tax automatically deducted from your pay check.

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/10791537/Bernie-Ecclestone-accused-of-biggest-ever-personal-tax-dodge.html

I think if she has £50 million in jewellery lying around then advertising that she’s on holiday on social media is unlikely to mean that her house is empty and unprotected in the same way it might if we were on holiday?