The film was based in part on The Suspects Wore Louboutins, an article about the case by Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales.

BBC: Sofia Coppola dismisses Bling Ring gang criticism

Once again, however, logic must defer, in this case, to the vanity and power-hunger of national politicians and, it must be said, to the enduring loyalties of Europeans to their nation-states, despite a striking increase in their affirmations of a local or tribal identity.

ECONOMIST: Beyond Berlin

Yet the very banality of his character his vanity, his garrulousness, his guilt makes him a rather heartening case.

NEWYORKER: The Oath