“I think I, honestly, was a sociopath,” says the alleged mastermind behind the string of infamous celebrity robberies.
” robberies of the mid-to-late 2000s, is breaking her silence after over a decade of reticence. Who is the pretty young woman who made burglingThe only problem is, after watching Lee tell her story, you can’t help but wonder if she’s still pulling some kind of swindling act.
Introducing herself in director Erin Lee Carr’s documentary, Lee, now 33, talks animatedly about how thrilling it was to steal money from her mom’s purse as a latchkey kid. She admits she always had an inclination toward subterfuge, paired with resentment over her outsider status as an Asian kid in a largely white California community.
Lee says the slew of celebrity heists she and her friends managed to pull off—the ones that inspired the “Bling Ring” epithet as well as the 2013 Sofia Coppola film—were both the product of her toxic relationship with co-conspirator Nick Prugo and her impulse to emulate Hollywood badassery. “For me it was like, honestly, when I started watching thosemovies,” Lee said. “I was like, ‘Icon. I want to be that.’ I don’t know why I thought like that, but I did.
In all three of these projects, the authorial instinct to report on one’s subjects empathetically ends up overtaking the mission of the projects themselves., Carr produced something more like a feature-length fan-cam than a balanced story. She gives her subject way too much leeway to explain away her chronic thefts as a byproduct of her drug addiction.
“It’s really stressful thinking about the past. It’s quite disturbing, actually,” Lee says at one point in the doc. “I think I, honestly, was a sociopath. I think I honestly didn’t care about anybody or anything.” It’s probably her most sincere moment, and Lee deserves some element of sympathy for her struggles.
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