Sharon Stone Named Suspect in Cannes Jewel Heist By Hollywood | Variety – 3 hours ago
French
police have named actress Sharon Stone as their prime suspect in the
daring heist, in which more than $1.4 million in jewels were stolen from
a hotel room during the Cannes Film Festival. According to authorities,
they zeroed in on the “Basic Instinct” star as their prime suspect
after an IMDb search helped them realize the actress hasn’t been a movie
star in almost a decade, which made her attendance at the Cannes Film
Festival extremely suspicious, they noted.
“Sharon Stone’s last starring role
in a major theatrical release was in 2006’s ‘Basic Instinct 2,’ which
should have gone to straight-to-DVD anyway,” a spokesperson for the Nice
police told Hollywood & Swine.
“So what possible business does Sharon Stone have attending the 2013
Cannes Film Festival other than to steal expensive jewels? No one
including Ms. Stone has been able to give us a good answer.”
When French detectives brought
Stone in for questioning earlier today for her alleged involvement in
the jewelry theft, she immediately began reciting popular lines from her
infamous interrogation scene in 1992’s “Basic Instinct.” She then tried
to intimidate detectives by uncrossing her legs, but officers explained
to the Oscar-nommed actress that no one has wanted to see that since
the ’90s.
Stone reportedly told detectives
she was at the festival to see her former co-star Michael Douglas’ new
Liberace biopic, “Behind the Candelabra.” Detectives quickly dismissed
this as an unlikely motive for traveling across the globe to France,
when like most of America, Stone could have waited until the film
premiered on HBO. Detectives believe what may help them prove Stone is
responsible for the jewel heist is the actress’s long and notorious
history of theft. Detectives have numerous sworn affidavits by co-stars
from her brief guest-starring stint on “Law & Order: SVU,” where
Stone is accused of trying to steal every scene she was in by
overacting.