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“Stolen: Heist of the Century” is based on “Flawless,” the book about the middle-of-the-night theft, and will debut on Netflix in August.
“Stolen: Heist of the Century,” a documentary on the Antwerp diamond heist, is set to premiere next month on Netflix. It is based on Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell’s book “Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History.” (Photo courtesy of Scott Selby)
Los Angeles—A show about the infamous 2003 Antwerp diamond heist is coming to a small screen near you, again.
“Stolen: Heist of the Century” is a documentary based on the book “Flawless” by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell. It is set to be released Aug. 8 on Netflix.
“Stolen” will detail how a gang of thieves skirted layers of sophisticated security systems to steal an estimated $100 million to $500 million in diamonds, jewelry, cash, and precious metals from an underground vault in Antwerp, Belgium.
According to a description of the documentary added recently to the Netflix press site, “Stolen” will feature the Antwerp detectives who cracked the case and the heist’s “alleged criminal mastermind.”
Leonardo Notarbartolo was the frontman of the gang of five Italian thieves who allegedly pulled off the theft.
In 2005, a court in Belgium sentenced him to 10 years in prison, while three of his four accomplices—Ferdinando Finotto, Elio D’Onorio, and Pietro Tavano—were sentenced to five years each.
The fifth suspect has never been arrested, and the majority of the stolen loot was never recovered.
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“Stolen: Heist of the Century” is a documentary based on the book “Flawless” by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell. It is set to be released Aug. 8 on Netflix.
“Stolen” will detail how a gang of thieves skirted layers of sophisticated security systems to steal an estimated $100 million to $500 million in diamonds, jewelry, cash, and precious metals from an underground vault in Antwerp, Belgium.
According to a description of the documentary added recently to the Netflix press site, “Stolen” will feature the Antwerp detectives who cracked the case and the heist’s “alleged criminal mastermind.”
Leonardo Notarbartolo was the frontman of the gang of five Italian thieves who allegedly pulled off the theft.
In 2005, a court in Belgium sentenced him to 10 years in prison, while three of his four accomplices—Ferdinando Finotto, Elio D’Onorio, and Pietro Tavano—were sentenced to five years each.
The fifth suspect has never been arrested, and the majority of the stolen loot was never recovered.
“Stolen” was written and directed by Mark Lewis of Raw, a British production company. Lewis also wrote and directed Netflix documentaries “Don’t F**k With Cats” and “Vatican Girl.”
Raw, which made another Netflix documentary with jewelry industry ties, “The Tinder Swindler,” produced the film in association with Amblin Documentaries, a division of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, and in collaboration with Wildside.
The documentary’s run time is 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood first reported the news of the forthcoming Antwerp heist documentary last week, and Selby, who served as an executive producer on the film, also has information on his website.
“Stolen” is the latest in a line of productions to tell the story of the infamous and intricate crime.
In addition to Selby and Campbell’s book, which was published in 2010, the massive theft has been featured on The History Channel’s “History’s Greatest Heists,” the Audible podcast “Heist with Michael Caine,” and was the subject of an Amazon Prime drama series, “Everybody Loves Diamonds,” that came out in 2023
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