Influencer who loves to show off her freebies on social media learns VERY harsh lesson while vacationing in Paris

An influencer who loves to promote the designer items she gets for free on social media learned a hard lesson while vacationing in Paris.

Victoria Paris, 25 – her real name is Victoria Paris Finkel – posted photos on Instagram and videos on TikTok of her trip to the European city on May 5, when her home was targeted in a burglary.

An unknown person was caught on security footage breaking into her Silver Lake, Los Angeles, home and making off with designer bags and jewelry. reports the LA Times.

They are said to have stolen a Louis Vuitton sports bag, two Paco Rabanne bags, a Miu Miu bag, a laptop and all of Finkel’s jewelry.

Just a day later, the same person was spotted on her surveillance cameras, again searching her belongings.

It’s unclear exactly how her home was found, but Finkel regularly posts photos and videos of her backyard with a clear view of her neighborhood, her car in the driveway, and her designer items from her bedroom.

She even once sparked outrage when she deliberately destroyed a $5,000 Gucci bag by smashing it against the stairs outside to make it look worn.

Since the break-in, Finkel appears to be questioning her life choices.

“The reason I’m good at this job and why I love doing what I do is because I really enjoy sharing things with you,” she said. told her nearly two million TikTok followers on June 7th.

“I don’t know, it makes me feel less alone. And I feel alone a lot,” she admitted in the emotional video.

‘But it’s precisely these kinds of things that make me not want to share anymore.’

Finkel eventually decided she needed to move out of the Silver Lake home and keep her residence more private. The alleged burglar is still at large.

But on TikTok, she shows that she still shows off her luxury items.

She was able to recover one of the bags stolen earlier this month because the alleged robber apparently sold it to a store. said in a TikTok post on August 10.

And in a video posted just two days ago After recounting the robbery, Finkel appeared to be in a better mood as she showed off the massive amount of Paco Rabanne bags she had received as gifts.

“Rabanne actually said, ‘Checkmate, bitch,’ because they sent me everything that was stolen and then some,” she said as she tried on dresses and showed off her new shoes.

“Uh, I don’t know if I should say this, but I’m going to say it anyway: Getting robbed might have been the best thing that ever happened to me,” she said.

She also admitted to the LA Times that influencers “aren’t the biggest victims, but we put everything in our lives on the internet, which makes us an easy target.”

Just a month before Finkel was targeted, a group of would-be burglars also broke into the home of Joey Zauzig, an influencer and reality TV personality who starred in MTV’s Real Friends of WeHo.

He said he decided to return to his LA home early after a trip to Cabo San Lucas, despite openly announcing on social media that he would return a day later.

Zauzig even shared a video that made it appear as if he was still in Mexico on April 8.

In reality, he was asleep at home when he heard the burglars breaking in.

“I decided to check the cameras,” he told the LA Times. “I saw that there were three guys with what looked like guns in their hands, and I think my first reaction was to go up the stairs.

“I screamed, ‘Get out of here!’ before calling 911 and waking up his fiancée.

The two then sneaked out through a sliding door onto a balcony of their Hollywood Hills home, until the robbers left without taking anything.

Zauzig said the experience left him terrified.

“My content is very positive and uplifting,” he said. “You don’t think there are people out there trying to tear you down, but I think when you have thousands of people looking at your life and your content, there are people out there trying to target you. They’ve clearly targeted me.”

No arrests have yet been made in the Zauzig case either.

But in a TikTok video on June 13, Finkel seemed to suggest that the man who broke into her home had previously broken into the home of another influencer, Emily Oberg.

“Everybody he robbed has come together and now we have to put all our stories together to get the LAPD to catch this son of a bitch,” she said.

She claimed he robbed three other houses over the course of two weeks and wore the same outfit each time.

Oberg, an influencer who runs the clothing and beauty brand Sporty & Rich, was out of town on June 3, 2023, when a burglar broke into her Beverly Hills guest house and made off with designer coats and shoes, Chanel and Hermès bags, jewelry, furniture and more.

She claimed the value of the stolen goods was over $140,000 and that she was just glad she wasn’t home at the time.

“I wouldn’t feel sorry for the influencers, because we’re posting these things and documenting our every move,” Oberg admitted. “It’s just the world we live in.”

Fortunately, a suspect in that case was arrested and spent seven months in prison after a plea agreement was reached.

According to LAPD statistics, burglaries in the city of Los Angeles are now up 3.3 percent, with 305 more cases than the same period last year.

Kent Moyer, CEO of World Protection Group, which provides security to celebrities and the wealthy, also said his company has noticed an increase in burglaries, robberies and home invasions, especially by influencers.

“They are easy prey,” he explains, pointing out that influencers are among his toughest clients because they want to constantly post information about themselves.

“Whether it’s true or not, to criminals these people appear to have something worth stealing,” said Paul Vernon, a retired LAPD captain who once headed the statistics division.

‘People unknowingly share far too much information about themselves publicly, making it very easy for complete strangers to find them.’

But now the influencers say they will be more careful.

“Be safe,” Zauzig said of the rules he now follows. “Don’t show what you have. Don’t show certain parts of your home. Be smart about what you post.

“I would never do a house tour,” he added.

“I think I’m a little more conscious about posting now. I post later and I don’t post when I’m gone.”