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Sharing her side of the story. After former Bling Ring member Alexis Haines‘ (née Neiers) sister Gabrielle Neiers revealed that she was involved in a robbery at Rachel Bilson’s house while the group was operational over a decade ago, Tess Taylor is speaking out.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The story of Alexis Haines’ entanglement with a circle of Los Angeles-area home invaders has been told multiple times over: In the reporting of Nancy Jo Sales, who profiled her for Vanity Fair in 2010; on her own reality show, “Pretty Wild,” which aired on E! in 2010; and in Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film “The Bling Ring,” based on Sales’ work. Now, Haines (formerly Alexis Neiers), along with former associate Nick Norgo (formerly Nick Prugo), attempts to set the record straight in the Netflix documentary series “The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.” The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s. It’s not that Haines’ and Norgo’s stories, told with both respective parties’ permission in this doc, don’t have inherent interest: Both of them became entranced by the concept of celebrity and, as part of the “bling ring” cabal, stole cash and belongings from the homes of famous people, including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Orlando Bloom. (One of their victims, “The Hills” personality Audrina Patridge, speaks to the camera for “The Real Bling Ring.”)

Audrina Patridge became one of several high-profile celebrities whose homes were robbed by a group of high school teens, the former star is speaking out about the burglaries in the Netflix docuseries . “It was like they went shopping in my closet,” Patridge says. “After my house was broken into, I was the most terrified I’ve ever been in my entire life.”And she’s not the only one to speak out, as Alexis Haines nee Neiers and Nick Norgo nee Prugo, two of the central figures in what became known as the “Bling Ring” at the time, open up about the truth behind the robberies for the first time on camera. After both served jail time and saw their story retold onscreen by director Sofia Coppola, the two are speaking out -- and recounting their own version of events, detailing how the robberies started with unlocked cars outside of house parties before escalating to celebrity home break-ins that involved stealing jewelry, clothes and other items worth thousands of dollars. “I’ve always been the kind of person to do whatever I had to get what I wanted. But I never thought in my wildest dreams that it would reach the level of criminality that it did,” Norgo says, while Haines adds, “I didn’t come here to save face.

A new documentary series from Netflix is telling the story of the infamous thieves known as the Bling Ring.