YouTuber Jeffree Star victim of \u201chorrific\u201d $2.5 million makeup theft Popular YouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star announced the launch of his \u2018Blue Blood\u2019 product line on March 15 \u2013 and suffered a devastating loss that very evening. According to Star, a group of thieves had infiltrated one of his climate controlled warehouses the night of March 15, stealing an estimated $2.5 million in product \u2013 including an unreleased concealer line. Alongside a shipment of Star\u2019s new \u2018Platinum Ice\u2019 highlighter palette (5,000 units in total) and \u201cthousands\u201d of his \u2018Northern Lights\u2019 highlighters, the burglars also pilfered an entire shade of his upcoming \u2018Magic Star\u2019 concealers. Star\u2019s \u2018Magic Star\u2019 concealer has been over one year in the making, and contains a reported thirty plus shades, with the shade \u20185C\u2019 being completely depleted by the criminals in question. Read More: YouTuber Logan Paul explains \u2018inspirational\u2019 change of direction for his popular Maverick brand – \u201cThis is the biggest theft I have ever experienced in my entire career,\u201d Star admitted in an emotional video on the topic, uploaded on April 2. \u201c\u2026I am still shocked about the entire thing.\u201d Star himself believes the burglary was an \u201cinside job,\u201d calling the theft \u201cvery professional\u201d and speculating that a temporary worker may have tipped the thieves off. \u201cIt is so gut-wrenching to watch people just take your shit and put it in a truck, and steal something that I have been working on for so long,\u201d he said of the video recording of the theft. That\u2019s not all; pictures of Star\u2019s product soon began leaking online through \u2018social marketplace\u2019 sites like \u2018Poshmark\u2019 and the Facebook marketplace, as discovered by a team of investigators hired by Star, alongside law enforcement officials \u2013 and even the FBI. Star claimed that the thieves were likely \u201cblack-market makeup dealers,\u201d selling his products to counterfeit makeup outlets or \u201cunder the table\u201d markets, and claimed that the same thieves had stolen over $4.5 million in Anastasia Beverly Hills eyeshadow palettes in 2017. I don\u2019t even know where to begin right now.. The last few weeks have been so mentally exhausting but I\u2019m so grateful for all the law enforcement & FBI agents who have been working on my #Concealer heist :pray::skin-tone-2: A major player who has been selling my stolen product has been arrested. \u2014 Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) April 3, 2019 Alongside the theft, Star is also dealing with the declining health of his birth mother, who he claimed to have recently reconciled with during his video discussing the matter. Star is one of YouTube\u2019s most popular makeup artists to date, boasting over 14 million subscribers and over 4 million followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Jeffree Star victim of \u201chorrific\u201d $2.5 million makeup theft Popular YouTuber and makeup mogul Jeffree Star announced the launch of his \u2018Blue Blood\u2019 product line on March 15 \u2013 and suffered a devastating loss that very evening. According to Star, a group of thieves had infiltrated one of his climate controlled warehouses the night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}