FBI Raid Hotel Room in Connection with Kris Jenner Stalker and Hacker
Kris Jenner, matriarch of the Kardashian clan, was targeted by a bizarre stalking/hacking campaign which including a fake recording the television star using racist slurs.
On Friday, the FBI raided a room at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles, targeting electronic equipment owned by a woman named Christina Bankston who the agency said was stalking Kris Jenner. Via TMZ:
The woman — Christina Bankston — was at the Four Seasons hotel in Bev Hills Friday when FBI agents armed with a search warrant broke into her room and confiscated her computer, an iPad and other electronics.
Our sources say Bankston — who lives in the San Francisco area — is the woman who was calling Kris up to 300 times a day. She would also call the media, including TMZ, posing as Kris.
Jenner was reportedly the subject of an ongoing campaign of stalking, harassment and impersonation to the point where someone was going around trying to sell what they claimed to be a recording of her saying the n-word (nope, it’s not her on that recording, folks). A June incident when Jenner’s Instagram was hacked is reportedly one of numerous examples of the hacking and stalking. Gawker has a whole lot more to this story over at their site, too.
As far as we can tell, that’s where the recording came from: a talented Jenner mimic, working in concert with a hacker with access to Jenner’s iCloud account to wreak havoc on Kris Jenner’s life for months—making fake restaurant reservations, setting up meetings with Hollywood executives, stealing photographs, leaking gossip, and even sending iMessages from her account to her husband and daughter. We say “as far as we can tell” because the hacker has stayed hidden and the Kardashian camp won’t talk to us except to categorically deny Jenner’s involvement.
The exact connection between the previously reported hacking attacks and Bankston, who TMZ implies is mentally disturbed, is still unclear. TMZ and Radar have variously reported that Jenner’s Instagram account was hacked, that “pranksters” were making restaurant reservations under her name, and that she’d received threatening phone calls.
TMZ also has video of the Bankston riding a roller coaster and proclaiming her love for Kris Jenner. It’s hard to keep up with everything that’s developing with this story, so don’t feel bad if you’re sitting there staring at your computer screaming “WHAT THE FUCK?” There is going to be more that comes out about this story and we’ll be sure to follow up as more develops.
We can all stop making our weird unfounded guesses about why Charlie Hunnman dropped out of “Fifty Shades of Grey” (shitty script, didn’t like his cast/crew, realized he was about to star in movie that contained this, ILLUMINATI LIZARD PEOPLE CONSPIRACY, Benghazi, etc.)