The Bling Ring: Where Are Alexis Neiers, Rachel Lee and the Rest of the Group Now?

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The Bling Ring: Where Are Alexis Neiers, Rachel Lee and the Rest of the Group Now?

The Bling Ring — consisting of Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Alexis Neiers, Courtney Ames and Diana Tamayo — became infamous for stealing roughly $3 million in cash and belongings from Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Audrina Patridge and many more from 2008 to 2009. The teens and 20-somethings became household names themselves following their 2010 arrests, with their infamous antics becoming the focus of two movies (one directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson) and a book by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales. Even though Neiers and Prugo were willing to tell their side of the story for Netflix's The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, the Pretty Wild alum revealed she never saw the movie based on her infamous past. "I'm a busy mom of two kids," she told Entertainment Weekly in September 2022. "If I'm gonna sit down for two hours, it's not gonna be to watch The Bling Ring. When I was filming this documentary, they had me watch bits and pieces of the movie and asked me my opinion on it. It's just too easy." According to Neiers, the hit film didn't properly depict her perspective. "That's the thing that's so frustrating when you have someone that's as brilliant as Sofia Coppola and as wonderful an actor as Emma Watson working on a movie together," she continued. "You have this opportunity to do something really great and to dig deeper and to look at the complexities, but it's just lazy." The former reality star praised the way The Real Bling Ring factored in her version of events. "I think the docuseries is so great because in the media reporting up until very recently there wasn't really a space for the nuance and the complexity of what happened in the crime," she explained at the time. "The story became sensationalized and there wasn't space to talk about addiction and mental health. We still have a long way to go, but we're so much farther than we were in 2010." Prugo, for his part, also weighed in on his involvement in the burglaries more than one decade later. “I’ve always been the type of person to do whatever I had to do to get what I wanted. But I never thought in my wildest dreams that it would reach the level of criminality that it did," he shared in The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist that same month. Scroll through to find out what they are up to now: [podcast_block]

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Rachel Lee

Lee, the mastermind behind the robberies, served 16 months in prison for her role in the Hollywood heists. Despite nearly a decade passing since the robberies, she’s acknowledged her role in invading the homes of celebrities she once admired.

“As a teen, I was chasing love in all the wrong places and by the time I realized it was too late and I was in prison. I truly feel prison was a blessing in disguise — the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me realize you can only trust yourself at the end of the day,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in 2018. “If I could do it all over again I would’ve made the right choices instead of the wrong ones. I would’ve changed a lot.” 

Despite turning down the opportunity to consult on Coppola’s movie adaption, she couldn’t help but introduce herself when she ran into Watson at a bar during the Super Bowl in 2017. “I walked up to her and I said, ‘Hi, my name is Rachel. I just wanted to introduce myself because you were in a movie based upon my life. I actually had the chance to work on the movie but I didn’t feel comfortable at the time,’" she recalled at the time. "And she put out her hand and said, ‘It’s nice to meet you.’”

In October 2018, Lee graduated from cosmetology school for hairstyling. She is also currently working on a screenplay for a TV drama.

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Alexis Neiers

Neiers’ arrest for her role in the invasions was captured by cameras in 2010 while she was filming her ill-fated E! reality show, Pretty Wild. She was in prison for more than a month at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California — while Lohan was serving her own time. 

The former model — who celebrated more than a decade of sobriety in 2022 — currently works at Alo Recovery Center in Malibu, where she helps recovering addicts who are struggling. She also hosts a podcast called "Recovering from Reality."

Neiers married Evan Haines in 2012, with whom she shares daughters Harper and Dakota. The TV personality revealed in September 2021 that although she and Haines were “very happily married," she was in an open relationship. The California native filed for divorce in August 2022.

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Nicholas Prugo

While most of the Bling Ring members chose to retreat from the spotlight, Prugo — who served a year in prison — did the opposite by sharing his side of the story to Good Morning America in February 2010.

The Hollywood burglaries weren’t Prugo’s only brush with the law. In 2015, he was charged with stalking and solicitation to commit sexual assault. Prugo, who previously worked in the skincare industry, has kept to himself since his brushes with the law. In September 2022, he participated in Netflix's The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.

Prugo currently lives in Los Angeles with his husband.

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Courtney Ames

After being sentenced to probation and community service, Ames reportedly studied psychology, speech and child development at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. She tried to legally change her last name in 2016, but it isn't clear whether she was successful.

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Diana Tamayo

Tamayo, who was sentenced to probation and community service after she pleaded no-contest, feared potentially being deported for her crime, according to The Los Angeles Times. While Tamayo intends to remains out of the spotlight, a source told Us in 2018, “Diana is a superpositive person who has a lot of faith. She’s now a personal trainer and happily married.”