Friday Aug 24 4:35 PM
London, Aug 24 (ANI): Actress Kirsten Dunst became a victim of burglary after her SoHo hotel suite was robbed.
The 25-year-old lost a 13,000-dollar handbag, wallets, cash, cameras and an iPod to two burglars.
The thieves broke in just after Dunst along with actor Simon Pegg and assistant Liat Baruch left the hotel penthouse to shoot for her new film 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' on August 9.
Police arrested one suspect Jarrod Beinerman after the film shooting was over in Manhattan, on the basis of the hotel's surveillance video and is looking for his alleged accomplice.
Beinerman was seen taking a guest elevator to the floor below Dunst's suite and then taking a freight elevator up to the penthouse level.
He then allegedly walked through an open door into the penthouse and stole items belonging to Dunst and her companions, including 2,500 dollars, a Marc Jacobs purse, wallets containing IDs and credit cards, several bags including one by Balenciaga, two digital cameras, a cellphone and an iPod.
According to a criminal complaint, the videotape caught him exiting the hotel with the loot.
The theft was discovered about one and a half hours later.
The 33-year-old was caught as he left Brooklyn Supreme Court, where he was facing pending heroin-sale charges and was being held on 50,000 dollar bond after his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on burglary and grand-larceny charges.
Authorities have since recovered credit cards, ID cards and the cellphone.
Meanwhile during Beinerman's arraignment his lawyer, James Kirschner insisted that his client went to see the shooting of the film and had nothing in his hands while leaning the hotel premises.
"He tells me they were filming a movie that day [at the hotel]. That's why he was there. He went there to check out what was going on," the Mirror quoted Kirschner, as saying.
Beinerman's personal MySpace page showed he last logged onto the site the day before the theft and his 'mood' setting on the page indicated he was 'worried'.
The page also features the quote, 'Learn from your mistakes and grow from misfortune' along with photos of stacks of 20 dollar bills, and played the 50 Cent song 'I Get Money' for visitors.
Meanwhile, Dunst's spokesman has declined to comment on the reports. (ANI)