£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"

@DarkDarkNight it was her sister's ex husband

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

Of course he has every legal right to. Why is describing that as 'unearned excess' so incorrect as to be amusing?

The virtue signalling on this thread is unreal.

Why is it virtue signaling to disagree? I'm not saying I've done anything morally superior, I'm just saying spending that much on jewellery is wrong.

Woman is burgled
'Well she shouldn't have had it anyway'
Good grief

Tamara does plenty for charity doesn't she??? Especially great ormond st. What do people expect her to do live like a pauper and distribute everything she has??
Wonder what exactly the people who proclaim it's disgusting give??

It seems illogical to have that kind of valuable jewellery lying around the house and not stored in a bank vault. Was the house safe broken into or was the jewellery just sorted in the bedroom?

I am very sorry for any upset she has suffered but it seems obscene to me.

Remember Hatton Garden? That was a safe vault. That got burgled.

There is access to her back garden via Vicarage Gate and the Church nearby. So I’ve seen reported. So what security was visible at the street side wasn’t around the back. However to spend 50 minutiae burgling two safes, )’(they have one each) is an amazing amount of time. Apparently it was three burglars and they escaped when “discovered”. This looks like someone had all the inside info.

If she gives her time and money to charity and has jewels, that’s ok by me.

The only way they can have been there 50 minutes is if the alarms were not on, there are a load of embassies in the street as well as some mega rich, the street has security guards so the alarms can’t have been going off.

It's hard to imagine the quantity of the jewellery!

This is getting a bit "she'srich do she deserves it". Not very nice really.

I don't wish anybody to be violated but it is hard to feel too sorry for her. I know victims of burglaries devastated by the loss by too little insurance. She won't suffer financially.

She may be rich but who can she ever really trust?

Yes. Lots of embassies. I think the alarms were disconnected too. Getting into two safes is also a big job - unless you knew the codes of course. This will be interesting!

Meh. £50m is money down the back of the sofa to an Ecclestone. Hardly worth getting excited about.

Wonder what exactly the people who proclaim it's disgusting give??

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Nowt. Because they have nowt.

Next question!

I feel sorry for her. Anyone being burgled isn’t nice. Whether it’s £50 or £50m. Some of the jewellery will be special to her. It’s just worth more than is special to us. I’ve got one or two decent pieces of jewellery. I would be very upset if I lost them in a burglary - so just checking the safe shortly!

It's not the money. Its the violation of your home. People on mumsnet go on about how unsafe women feel; just the constant low level "alert" feeling we all need to keep on. How would you then feel after your home was violated? Would you feel safe. Even with gates and security and alarms... they got in and stayed in for an hour with no notice. Do you think she will safe again? Not for a while.

I think she staged it, personally.

`Oh, I'm leaving at 7.25pm to go to Lapland for a mega holiday, the house will be empty, see you losers laterz!!!'

Come on.......

I can’t see the insurance company rushing to pay out 50 million quid! I’d guess each item would be insured individually, they will have clauses to say if it’s not stored securely it’s not covered.
As for quantity - possibly not as much stuff as we might imagine. You can buy things like watches for over £250k each, Every item would have been a fortune

I do actually feel sorry for her, did anyone see the programme she did a few years ago?
Despite the money she seemed strangely childish & really not very sure of herself.
She doesn’t know any life other than extreme wealth - that’s not her fault. It must be hard always wondering if people only like you for your money (not a problem I’ll ever have!)

Tamara hardly advertised going on holiday and left her 59 room mansion on one of the richest streets in London unattended with just light timers on! It's been well reported that there were security in the house at the time and also that both hers and her husband's safes were smashed open. There must have been some level of inside job going on, to know where the safes were and to bypass security one would think, but then I've never been round for a cup of tea and a nosey so who knows?
Also she could have stored it all in a deposit box, but the Hatton Garden robbery proves that isn't always the best way to go isn't it? In her shoes I'd probably prefer to have it at home with her level of security.

There’s an opportunity to give towards funding new jewellery for Tamara via crowdfunding - if anyone’s interested!

Wonder what exactly the people who proclaim it's disgusting give??

I've not said it's disgusting. But I have said I have a moral issue with it (in general - not specifically to her)
I'm not going to get into how much I give, but it's going to be a far higher proportion of my disposable income than hers, or any other billionaire's heiress. And I think it's weird of you to assume that anyone finding extreme sums spent on fripperies to be uncomfortable, doesn't do anything significant themselves.

I've not said it's disgusting.

No-one has. The PP you are replying to made it up. Like the nonsense about expecting her to 'live like a pauper' it's just silly hyperbole from a small number who feel that nobody should ever be criticised for materialism, no matter how excessive, but can't formulate an argument as to why.

Fifty million quid of jewellery. I’m trying to visualise it. Do you think she has it all piled up in a big heap and lies on it like Smaug?

I don't wish being burgled on anyone, whoever they are. It has happened to me and it took me a good while to feel safe in my own home again. Also, some of my stolen items were of great sentimental value so even though the insurance paid out without question I still felt the loss.
But, as has already been mentioned I do have to question the wisdom of having £50M worth of jewellery in your own home, even if it is in a safe. There is only so much you can wear at any one time, so surely it would make more sense to keep it in the bank and rotate it - keep say a mere million quid's worth in the house each week? I imagine a security firm would do the weekly exchange for an easily affordable fee.
I can't imagine what £50M worth of jewellery looks like and I certainly can't imagine being rich enough to own it. But if I was, I am sure I wouldn't keep it in my house. It could have been so much worse. Imagine if instead of being burgled whilst she was away a gang of armed robbers had broken in whilst she was asleep? All the money in the world isn't going to be much comfort if you are staring down the barrels of a sawn of shotgun. Even if the family can afford to replace the jewels they must surely be concerned about personal safety?