Kim Kardashian's Paris bodyguard sued for $6.1m

Cape Town - Kim Kardashian's insurance company has filed a lawsuit against her former bodyguard and his employer.

Pascal Duvier - who was out with Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian the night Kim was held at gunpoint and robbed in Paris - and his company Protect Security are being sued for "negligently" protecting the reality TV star's private apartment, BBC reports.

Kim escaped unharmed after being robbed at gunpoint of more than $10m worth of jewellery inside a private Paris residence in in October 2016.

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AIG - the finance and insurance company which covered the cost of Kim's stolen jewellery - claims in the lawsuit that the bodyguard and his firm left Kim alone in her room.

According to TMZ, the lawsuit also claims that there were a number of security breaches that Pascal ignored before leaving, including checking the front door intercom, which was not working at the time, and checking the front gate to the courtyard, which was missing a lock at the time.

Kim is not personally involved in the lawsuit.