♪ to mess around unless you want to mess around ♪ ♪ uh ♪ uh ♪ hey [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i want to thank neil patrick harris, clayton kershaw. i want to apologize to matt damon. we did run out of time. tomorrow night, larry david, naya rivera and music from backstreet boys. this is their self-titled album that comes out on september 3rd. playing us off the air with "no control." you can see the full performance at jimmykimmellive.com. and watch the full concert scream -- stream. scream. there's no screaming. it's a stream. go to myspace.com. once again, pepper. good night. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> hawaii, we love you. where are you? we're in l.a. tonight!

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♪ tonight on "nightline" -- ♪ uno, dos pitbull inc. he may be famous for his song "i know you want me." but how does a music star make you want a kodak camera or a dr pepper? >> that's right, baby. welcome to the crib. >> our correspondents spend a crazy 24 hours with the man whose life is one big party and global domination is just one thing on the to-do list. the heist. the scene, the carlton hotel in cannes, france. the crime, $136 million in jewels taken in an instant. how did they do it? who's behind it? tonight we'll examine the biggest robbery in french history. and it's not a catfight when it's with the law. how things get real for a real housewife.

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from new york city, this is "nightline" with bill weir. thank you for joining us tonight. well, if you are handicapping the artists that might go down as among the most influential in the early 21st century, do not discount a blue-eyed rapper who grew unquoting cuban revolutionaries in the streets of miami. yes, pitbull. hardly a critical darling. but corporate america obviously believes he holds serious sway over the selfie-taking, soda-drinking youth. and then there's his reputation for the nonstop party. and to get to know this man and his methods, abc's cecilia vega got a 24-hour pass to pitbull incorporated.

>> reporter: this is a glimpse into the life of a hip-hop superstar. ♪ it is the summer of pitbull. and for 24 crazy hours i'm invited along for the ride. >> how are you doing? good? >> are you ready for us? >> the question is are you ready for me? >> oh, god. that's what i hear. ♪ ♪ let it rain over me >> reporter: they call him mr. worldwide. ♪ let's go because in less than a decade the son of cuban immigrants transformed himself from a local rapper on the rough streets of miami to an international pop sensation. >> i never wonder how we got here. i always wonder where we're going. to me this is the beginning. ♪ >> reporter: he catapulted to fame by teaming up with some of the biggest names in the business. from j. lo -- ♪ live it up to christina aguilera. ♪ i just want to feel this

moment ♪ but chart-topping club anthems aside, this guy has become a product-endorsing powerhouse. whether you notice -- >> bud light together again with pitbull. >> reporter: or not. ♪ 40's the new 30 and baby you a rock star ♪ >> music to me is the gasoline to the fire. ♪ in l.a. it allows us to create a platform, a foundation to help any product, any company market. >> reporter: the man is cashing in at the height of his fame. >> i'm pitbull, and i'm one of a kind. >> reporter: and he's proud of it. >> i read one report that said you're worth $20 million. >> a good question. am i? >> you tell me. >> i don't know. >> you don't count? >> mm. i definitely don't count it. and even if you tried to count it, let me tell you, you couldn't. >> reporter: i wanted to get to know the man behind the budding empire. the real pitbull. armando perez.

our day starts backstage at a concert in tampa. >> you want something to drink or something? >> reporter: we are whisked into pitbull's dressing room. >> instead of a mojito it's a volito. >> reporter: where we find out those nonstop parties in all of his songs, it's not just an act. >> this is the best part of the interview. >> reporter: okay. now, i don't even know what to call this guy. >> just a little bit. just a little bit. >> reporter: pit. mr. bull. armando. but he makes it seem like we're instant friends. >> yeah, that's good. >> reporter: if not long lost latin cousins. and i can't help but wonder, am i being hustled by a self-described hustler? >> i walk too fast for you guys. >> reporter: and we can't keep up. >> definitely the quiet before the storm. >> do you get nervous at all anymore? >> you always get nervous. anybody that tells you they don't get nervous they're not human. >> what are you thinking about right before you get on stage? >> what am i thinking about? the only thing that counts in life. having fun. >> time to go.

♪ >> tampa! let's go! >> reporter: the concert is one long bumping sweaty party. >> this is where the cool kids hang out, backstage. ♪ in lebanon yeah the women the bomb ♪ ♪ and in greece you guessed it the women are sweet ♪ ♪ been all around the world but i ain't going to lie there's nothing like miami's heat ♪ ♪ you put it down like new york city ♪ >> god bless. good night. darling. >> reporter: next stop, his home town, miami. and yes, there is a chauffeured car waiting to take to us a private jet. he's still flying on a post-concert high. >> all right. whoo! >> whoo is right. >> man. >> you need this. you're not exhausted? >> no.

gosh, what a day. >> you don't get tired? >> no. i don't even like that word. i feel like people say it so many times a day, they don't even understand when they're saying it that it actually gets them tired. even when you're tired don't say you're tired. keep going. and that's it. kind of reboots and regenerates you. >> reporter: we hitch a ride on his fancy plane. but check your hip-hop video fantasies at the door. >> you can sit right here. >> reporter: a wild party this is not. >> 29% of your base is in latin america. >> brazil? turkey. germany. >> reporter: after all, what better place than 30,000 feet in the air to lay out those plans for world domination. and with a massive social media following, nearly 13 million on twitter, it seems he is already on his way. for pitbull music is a means to an empire. >> when you speak, 30 million people hear it. you are a media property. >> reporter: it's not enough to just record and tour. ♪ double down

so mr. worldwide has turned himself into a worldwide brand. ♪ and he has no qualms slipping ads into his music either. ♪ take a picture of me with a kodak ♪ >> are we watching your music video or a commercial for a pitbull endorsement? >> anything we do is sophisticated integration where we want people asking about it. we don't want them feeling like it's pushed on them. >> reporter: he brushes off critics who label him a sellout. >> it break down in two words. it's called the music business. that's exactly what we're here to do, is make music and do business. >> do you get the respect you deserve? >> hmm. do i care? that's the question. >> do you not? >> no. we have done things that not too many artists can do. which is create a global platform. >> do you think being latino helps or hurts you? ♪ >> being latino absolutely helps. with a culture you want to tap into. i think what makes our culture very special is the simple fact that we have buying power and

we're a loyal consumer. >> reporter: and the heart of his thriving latino fan base lives here, his beloved home town. >> and we're here. i have arrived in miami. >> that's right, baby. miami. the bottom. 305, dade county, magic city. welcome to the crib. whoo! >> reporter: there may be no one more miami than pitbull. and now smack in the neighborhood where he grew up -- >> all this right here is little havana. this is legendary to miami. >> reporter: this hip-hop star is wearing a hardhat and building what he hopes will become his legacy outside of music. >> slam, baby. >> reporter: slam. a state-of-the-art charter school. opening next month. >> and this is just the beginning. when you see the numbers come out on what they're doing on the fcat or what they're doing on the s.a.t.s or the graduation rate we're having, that's going to be when you look back on this and appreciate it. >> what neighborhoods we got here? >> hialeah. >> little havana, hialeah. >> reporter: look at you.

you're a hip-hop superstar talking to me about academic test scores. >> to me it's bigger than hip-hop. this right here is global. this shows you the power of music right here. >> reporter: pitbull uses his fame to peddle products. >> got him. >> reporter: and now his philanthropy. but is this just another performance? >> is there a difference between pitbull and armando? >> oh, absolutely. pitbull is everything that armando can't be in public. so he lets it all out on stage. through the records, through the music. that's my therapy. but armando is -- tries to be a more simple, normal, humble person that they raised me to be. >> reporter: he says to know him is to see where he comes from. >> they play dominos and speak about old school cuban stories. >> reporter: so we take a drive through little havana, passing the bars where at 5 years old his dad took him to recite cuban revolutionary poems. >> my mother gave me the brains. my father gave me la chipa. la chipa being the charisma. >> reporter: but it was also a rough childhood. he moved around a lot. >> right here is my apartment,

first floor, 527. >> reporter: and got himself into trouble when he started selling drugs. >> you look at it, it's the same thing i do now, just with a different product, and the product is music. i go city to city, country to country, all around the world, getting people hooked to my product. same hustle, different product. >> welcome to show business! >> reporter: and from the looks of this homecoming show in miami beach, pitbull's fans can't get enough. ♪ ♪ baby i'ma make you feel so good ♪ >> reporter: for mr. worldwide it seems there's only one place to go from here. >> it's just the beginning. you see it. everybody's trying to go to another planet now. maybe that's the first thing we take over next. ♪ reach for the stars >> make it planet pit. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm cecilia vega in miami. >> our thanks to cecilia for that. and coming up next, oh, let the so-called bling ring burgle celebrity houses. others are after museum-size halls. and the latest heist, one for the ages.

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it's impossible to know when the first man held the first diamond up to the sun and marveled at the shine, but knowing human nature, it was probably just five minutes later when another man tried to steal it. and in a long history of jewelry thieves, man, it looks like we are living in a golden age because an international group of thieves known as the pink panther gang has been making headlines lately.

men who can break into a jeweler or out of a prison with equal cinematic flair. so are they the ones behind a history-making heist this weekend? here's abc's lama hasan. >> reporter: the beautiful french riviera. its picture perfect mediterranean coastline the fabled playground of the ultra rich and famous. flashing their jewels and gems and on the red carpet of cannes. but tonight, cannes is infamous for another reason. three brazen jewel heists. the latest catch estimated at a whopping $136 million, making it the largest french jewelry heist in history. it happened at the glamorous 343-room intercontinental carlton hotel. it seems that life is imitating art. much like the alfred hitchcock 1955 romantic thriller "to catch a thief," starring cary grant as the dashing former cat burglar with the stunning grace kelly

taking place just a few floors above where the actual crime unfolded this weekend. the elegant carlton hotel. but this real-life robbery was much less cinematic. possibly one of these simpler schemes. a man in his mid 40s wearing a hat and scarf around his neck enters the prominent hotel. exact details still puzzle police. but he was somehow able to walk into the closed exhibit as the diamonds were about to be secured in their display cases. flashing a gun, he grabbed the bag of diamonds, then boldly escaped through a glass door, all in less than a minute. there's no doubt it was a shocking heist. but what's even more shocking is more than 24 hours later there is no police swarming the hotel, there's no extra security. it's as if nothing ever happened. the carlton heist follows a recent prison break by members of the notorious pink panther

jewel thief gang. someone should have called inspector clouseau of "pink panther" movie fame. just three days before the heist two pink panther gang members were sprung from a swiss prison when accomplices from the gang rammed the pickup van into a side gate while inmates were in the yard exercising. they set up ladders over a barbed wire fence and overpowered prison guards with gunfire from their ak-47s. the gang earned the nickname pink panther after borrowing a plot line from the movie. they once hid a diamond ring in a jar of face cream. >> retired jewel thief. >> reporter: they leave a trail of damage wherever they go. this isn't a stuntman driving two stolen audi a-8s through a mall in dubai. it's a mall in dubai where the panthers stole more than $10 million worth of diamonds in 2007. police won't publicly rule out whether the pink panthers are

prime suspects in the carlton heist, but it looks like almost anyone could have pulled off this heist. the only people on hand protecting the jewels at the carlton were the exhibition's manager, two employees, and three unarmed security guards. >> people are coming and going. you could sit in the lobby. you could watch. you can wait outside as if you're waiting for someone to come out of the hotel. so it's easy for you to really case that kind of a store. >> reporter: larry lawson was a professional thief who stole $50 million in jewels. he did 12 years in federal prison and is now an author. >> i think they have to really scrutinize every single person, from the owners of the diamonds right on down to the security detail and people at that hotel. there's just too many things that went too perfectly for it not to be a setup. >> reporter: cannes is no stranger to big-time robberies. this may chopard, jeweler for stars like julianne moore and jennifer lawrence, had $1 million worth of jewels snatched

from the novotel hotel as celebrities were walking down the red carpet for the premiere of sofia coppola's new controversial film called "the bling ring." irony that only hollywood could produce. it's based on the true story of seven l.a. teens who burglarized the homes of the rich and famous, stealing clothes, jewels, and watches. >> paris hilton hosting a party in vegas tonight. >> where does she live? let's go to paris'. >> reporter: but unlike the plot of this flick, where, plot spoiler alert, the wannabe celeb burglars are convicted and sentenced, these real-life jewel thieves are still on the loose. for "nightline" i'm lama hasan in cannes in france. >> thank you, lama. and coming up next, from melodrama to courtroom drama for a real housewife. get my kids ar,

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carries his own bags, but it's hard to top his surprising words on homosexuality. "if someone is gay and he searches for the lord and has goodwill, who am i to judge?" a federal judge will soon decide the fate of "real housewives of new jersey" star teresa giudice. a 39-count indictment listed tax evasion, hiding assets during a bankruptcy, and lying on loan applications as among the bad behavior. she is pleading not guilty and her attorney said their team will look forward to vindicating her. the real housewife herself put a finer point on it. "i'm committed to my family and intend to maintain our lives in the best way possible." which obviously includes gigantic closets full of stuff. >> i think i'm going to need three suitcases. and here's an embarrassing side effect of the whole fifty shades of grey phenomenon. so many people are dialing for emergency help after getting stuck in handcuffs, authoritie