
Doris Payne is shown during her incarceration in the Denver Women's Correctional Facility. She is now being held at the Orange County Jail. (Nathan W. Armes / For The Times)
From the Los Angeles Times
In the decades she spent honing her craft, Doris Payne employed classic elegance, refined taste, Southern charm and a sleight of hand that could earn the envy of a talented magician.
Like the best illusionists, she had a knack for making things disappear.
Payne’s life as an international jewel thief is the subject of an upcoming movie, “Who Is Doris Payne?” starring Halle Berry. But given the latest events in Orange County, the filmmakers may want to consider a new ending.
The 79-year-old was arrested on a rainy Friday afternoon on suspicion of grand theft after security guards at the Saks Fifth Avenue store at South Coast Plaza accused her of taking the tags off a Burberry trench coat valued at $1,300 and walking out without paying, said Costa Mesa Police Lt. Mark Manley.
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