Dorit Kemsley is pushing back on any speculation that her estranged husband, Paul “PK” Kemsley, had something to do with the terrifying robbery ordeal she endured in 2021.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star said she was held at gunpoint by three men in October 2021, while PK was out of town on business. She was alone in the home with the couple’s two sleeping children, Jagger, 12, and daughter Phoenix, 10, at the time.
Around $1 million worth of valuables were stolen.
Kemsley revisits the robbery in her new memoir, “Unburdened,” recalling what happened the night in question before addressing those who had doubts about her account of events.
Dorit Recounts Horrific Robbery
In her new book, out today and excerpted by PEOPLE magazine, Kemsley recalls what happened the night of the burglary.
“One moment I was lifting my head from the pillow. The next I was being forced backward, pushed down hard onto my knees. My hands hit the carpet. A gun pressed against the side of my head,” she says in the memoir.
On RHOBH back in 2022, Kemsley said one of the robbers “grabbed me, put me down [and said], ‘Get down on the ground. I’m going to kill you.'” She also said she pleaded with the men to let her live, telling them, “Please, I’m a mother. Please, I beg of you. My kids need me.”
Though she said she thought she was going to die, the three intruders left her physically unharmed. They also left behind her cell phone, leaving it by the front gate so she could call for help.
“My children were safe. They had slept through it. They did not know the details,” Kemsley writes in the memoir. “Their mornings still looked the same. Their routines were intact.”
She adds that she kept filming the Bravo series to keep a sense of “normalcy” for the family.
Dorit Reacts to Skepticism and Speculation
After the robbery, some on social media and in her own inner circle thought her story didn’t quite add up. Co-star Garcelle Beauvais even questioned it on RHOBH, wondering why Dorit still had so much expensive jewelry after the incident and why the intruders left behind her cell phone.
“There were murmurs that it felt dramatic. That it didn’t quite add up. That perhaps it was being amplified,” she writes in the book. “Not loud accusations, but subtle skepticism — the kind that hands in the air and forces you to feel it without ever fully confronting it.”
Pushing back, she says, “There was security footage. There was a 911 call. There was an active investigation.” None of that, writes Dorit, “seemed to matter” to the skeptics.
“It is a strange experience to survive something terrifying and then find yourself subtly interrogated about it. To sense doubt where you expected compassion. And then the undertone darkened,” Kemsley says now.
As for rampant speculation that PK himself orchestrated the whole ordeal, Dorit writes, “There were suggestions — not always direct, but unmistakable — that PK had something to do with it. Even now, the accusation feels surreal. He did not.”
Dorit and PK are currently separated, after she filed for divorce in 2025. Her book, “Unburdened,” is out now.
