this is "nightline." >> tonight, 17 people arrested in connection with the $10 million kim kardashian jewelry heist in paris. including the $4 million ring she showed off on instagram just days before the robbery. how police tracked down the suspects. kim speaking out for the first time about that traumatic ordeal. >> they're going to shoot me in the back. >> what she's saying about the night she was allegedly tied and up threatened at gunpoint. plus bright lights. >> mommy, mommy, i'm home! >> the new documentary chroni e chronicling the mother/daughter love story of debbie reynolds and carrie fisher. inside the ups and downs of their complicated relationship. >> you don't get a chance to have a life like this often. >> and carrie warning the world about her mother. first the "nightline" 5.

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good evening. thank you for joining us. 17 people arrested in france today in connection with the armed robbery of kim kardashian no october. kim has been uncharacteristically silent about the traumatic evening in

paris but tonight we hear what she was thinking during the ordeal as we learn new and surprising details about the suspects in custody. here's abc's linzie janis. >> reporter: it's been three months since the armed robbery of kim kardashian that made headlines around the world. >> kim kardashian found. >> gagged. >> held at gunpoint and begging for her life. >> reporter: and today a major break. predawn raids in france at the property seen here. leading to the arrest of 17 people who allegedly got away with more than $10 million in jewelry. during the robbery police say kardashian was held at gunpoint, tied up and gagged in this luxurious french apartment. kim kardashian herself breaking the silence she's maintained since the over ordeal. reliving the trauma in this clip from "keeping up with the kardashians." >> there's they're going to shoot me in the back. there's no way out. >> reporter: quite the cast of characters allegedly involved. three women and 14 men spanning

in age from 22 to 72. police believe that the 72-year-old might be the mastermind. the paris prosecutor's office tells abc news the majority of those suspects were already known to french police for other crimes. sources tell abc news that two traces of dna left at the crime scene helped lead investigators to these suspects. >> my guess is they must have taken their gloves off or didn't have any to begin with. >> reporter: kardashian's lawyer welcomed the arrests telling abc news, kim kardashian is amazed by french police professionalism. it all happened in october while kardashian was in paris celebrating fashion week. kardashian even posting on snapchat from the french apartment where she was staying. a week of glamor ending in terror. it was 2:30 a.m. when the men reportedly posing as police officers are said to have entered kardashian's room in this private luxury rental and tied her up, gagged her, and locked her in the bathroom. the alleged robbers fled with

her precious jewels, including this ring she posted about on instagram days earlier which alone carries a price tag of $4 million. kardashian's agony unfolding as her husband kanye west performed an ocean away. she manages to escape. allegedly making a phone call to west. >> i'm sorry, family emergency, i have to stop the show. >> there are a lot of questions about whether she was understaffed when it came to security. >> reporter: my colleague alex marquardt spoke with eve abivol, who works in the exclusive hotel industry in paris. he says here the rich and famous can enjoy their privacy, but believes it was kardashian's social media presence that might have made her a target. >> yesterday, made so many tweets. >> people knew where she was. >> yeah, everything she was wearing, everything. >> everywhere she's going. >> so you know where she was and the kind of jewels she got.

at the end of the day, she created the situation too. >> reporter: in the hours leading up to the robbery, the social media mogul was sharing her entire fashion week experience. >> show is about to start. >> reporter: kardashian posting that snapchat from the apartment just hours before the heist. the exclusive space featured in this 2014 episode of "keeping up with the kardashians" turned into a crime scene. >> it's certainly not a prudent thing to do to advertise that you have expensive items on you. and they already knew her location. figuring out where she was staying and why she was in paris would have taken nothing other than going on twitter. >> reporter: immediately following the robbery, kardashian rushed home and went dark on social media. her representative told abc news that kim was badly shaken but physically unharmed. >> there's no question that she was completely shaken by this

incident. >> reporter: her family rallied by her side. her sister khloe appearing on "ellen" showing her support. >> tell me how kim is doing. i'm sure everybody here is wondering. >> i mean, she's not doing that well. i mean, it's -- incredibly traumatic, what happened to her. >> she's been very careful and only recently has returned to social media in any kind of way. and in sort of a much more low-key way. >> the kim kardashian we saw is not the kim kardashian we're used to seeing. we saw a very stripped-down, played-down kim kardashian. >> reporter: soon after that, kanye was facing his own struggles. he was taken to the hospital in the middle of his concert after reportedly suffering from exhaustion and sleep deprivation. he canceled the remainder of his tour. >> don't scare me, please, what's going on? >> i have to get home. >> reporter: it wasn't until just last week the mother of two finally returned to social media, posting pictures and home movies of her family. now the kardashian sisters are

very focused on beefing up their security. >> self-defense, here we come. >> reporter: a recurring theme on their show. in one episode the sisters taking matters into their own hands with a self-defense class. but over the years as they became even more popular, traveling without security became all too risky. >> held up at gunpoint? us, not a real person. >> reporter: at one point sisters khloe and kourtney pranking 18-year-old kylie, who had a previous encounter with a stalker. >> what's on my car? >> what is on your car? >> reporter: the older sisters worried kylie wasn't taking proper security measures. >> it is important to like take it seriously with a stalker. my new thing is if i'm out in public with the snapping, i'll turn to airplane mode, then post them later. >> i always do that. >> reporter: kim's now former bodyguard, pass ankle, a constant presence by her side,

was with her sisters at the time of the robbery. >> if you're suddenly recognized as kim kardashian's bodyguard everywhere you go, you're targeting yourself. >> reporter: matt was michael jackson's body guard for over 10 years. >> we would travel, at least six or seven bodyguards with him, as well as myself and other personnel. and it would be a 24-hour operation. >> reporter: he says he knows the extra precautions bodyguards have to take with celebrities that draw that much attention. >> i stopped working for michael once my profile got so raised by being by his side, you can no longer be a bodyguard because you feed to be the person who's not recognized. >> reporter: back in paris, police are questioning the suspects and hoping to recover the stolen julie. many speculate the jewels may have been sold in amsterdam. >> where's the jewelry? has it been sold? is it out of the country? has it been broken up into various other pieces of jewelry?

>> reporter: kardashian's good friend jonathan chevin -- >> you're so blond, every time i come back you're blonding. >> reporter: tweeted today, to see my best friend have nightmares, panic attacks and people doubt her. thank god they found these criminal low lives. for "nightline," i'm linzie janis in new york. next, behind the bright lights, the private lives of carrie fisher and debbie reynolds, their happiest and hardest times together. later, donald trump brings his son-in-law into the white house. the legal and ethical ramifications. le you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques.

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"star wars" actress carrie fisher was known for revealing the most personal aspects of her life. her mother debbie reynolds was much more private which is what makes witnessing the mother/daughter duo's loving relationship behind the scenes such a treat. here's my "nightline" coanchor juju chang. >> reporter: it was the ultimate mother/daughter hollywood moment. >> i am proud to present the screen actors guild life achievement award to my mother! >> reporter: carrie fisher presenting her mother, debbie reynolds, with one of their industry's highest honors. >> i want to thank the screen actors guild for awarding me with this tonight. it's very unexpected. >> reporter: on stage she was still a pro, a true hollywood icon. >> thank you all very much for this wonderful award. >> here, mom. >> reporter: behind the scenes, age was catching up to the legendary reynolds. >> don't look like you're

holding me up, it's okay. >> i'm really not. >> we should look like we're walking and talking happily. >> reporter: private moments captured in the hbo documentary "bright lights" chronicling the complicated relationship between the famous mother and daughter who grew inseparable right up until their back-to-back deaths in december. >> you don't get a chance to have a moment like this very often. not like any mom would. it's its own special moment. >> reporter: the documentary shot over two years by directors fisher-stevens and alexis bloom. >> why on earth would they want to open their lives up like this? >> they didn't. carrie did. >> what did she want out of this? >> i think she wanted the world to see her mom. and appreciate her mom. before she retired. >> reporter: the film criterion directlied debbie's physical decline as the 85-year-old began to falter. >> i fainted. >> reporter: even appearing on camera bruised after a fall at home.

>> the movie wasn't supposed to be about debbie getting more and more ill and carrie worrying about her. that was just an unexpected turn of events. when we started filming, debbie was fine. >> reporter: you also watch carrie begin to realize her larger than life mother is becoming quite frail in front of our eyes. the mother/daughter duo represented opposite ends of hollywood. debbie was old school, dancing her way to stardom at age 19 in "singing in the rain." she was the consummate mgm studio pro. nominated for an oscar in 1965 for "the unsinkable molly brown." >> i'm unsinkable! >> one of the things that really blew lexie and my mind was debbie's 80-year-old work ethic continued. i'm an actor basically first and foremost. and i was so inspired watching debbie ready to go on and continue and her performance. >> somebody had to save our skins. >> reporter: debbie's daughter

carrie was also just 19 when she helped turn a sci-fi princess from "star wars" into a cultural icon. >> help me, obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope. >> if you interviewed debbie, she's very proper. we see her, how's my hair? carrie during "star wars," she would just be like, okay, let's go. that was carrie. but -- i think that was what was so amazing about carrie. she was unfiltered. and almost -- i think incapable of kind of telling lies. which made her an incredible subject for a documentary. >> reporter: chain smoking and constantly sipping coca-cola, carrie complains bitterly about the diet and fitness regimen she's on. >> after your exercise class, what you need to do is smoke a cigarette. >> reporter: training for her triumphant return, from a princess to a general in "force awakens." cementing the adulation of yet another generation of "star wars" fans who love rooting for

a warrior princess turned rebel commander. >> you changed your hair. >> she loved people. she loved her fans. she knew that her fans were the reason that she could do what she wanted to do. she truly did. she would spend time with these people. >> beyond what she needed to? >> totally. >> reporter: rebellious by nature and famously outspoken, carrie shared her struggled with smug and alcohol abuse and polar disease in over hbo documentary "wishful drinking." >> i was invited to go to a medical hospital. [ laughter ] well, you don't want to be rude, right? so you go. >> reporter: their relationship was often deeply strained over the years. which is why their reconciliation and closeness meant so much to both of them. what makes their relationship so amazing? >> they had been through everything. they loved each other. they were each other's best friends. >> reporter: when carrie went

into cardiac arrest her half sisters, jolie and tricia lee fisher, watched debbie reynolds sit vigil at her daughter's bedside. >> i knew that if carrie wasn't going to survive this, that debbie would not. you knew it. >> you could feel it. >> you could feel it. she would not last without her on the planet. >> reporter: carrie's brother todd equally devoted to their mother's legacy was there for her final moments. >> she didn't die from a broken heart, she just left to be with carrie. she expressed how much she loved my sister. she then said that she really wanted to be with carrie. and within 15 minutes from that conversation, she faded out. and within 30 minutes, she technically was gone. and i watched her leave and go to carrie. >> reporter: todd quoted his mother as saying the last thing she said was, i want to be with carrie. did that make sense to you? >> look when she chose to go. debbie was strong.

and she just said, okay. i'm ready. you know? carrie's not here. >> what does it say about debbie reynolds that she had these two children so devoted to her? >> debbie reynolds was amazing. >> "bright lights" gained critical acclaim at film festivals, cannes, telluride, new york. >> she really loved the film. she thanked us many times. at the end the new york film festiv festival. "thank you, so glad we made this, so glad we did this." >> reporter: it was slated to premiere on hbo in march but that all changed last month. >> all i know is debbie had been really ill. she kept bouncing back. and this was probably the last. okay, i'm ready. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm juju chang in new york. next, donald trump announcing his son-in-law will hold a key position in his

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finally tonight, president-elect trump living true to the old maxim, keep your friends close and your in-laws closer. finally ending months of speculation, donald trump made it official today. his son-in-law, jared kushner, married to daughter ivanka trump, will serve as senior adviser to the president. as one of trump's closest campaign advisers the 35-year-old businessman helped steer trump to vehicle tee. a sign of things to come, kushner joined his father-in-law on his first visit to the white house as president-elect, strolling in the rose garden with obama's chief of staff. the appointment has been controversial, raising ethical and legal questions. >> he's a son-in-law. there are nepotism laws that are pretty strict about what you can do. but when it comes to white house staff, the president can basically surround himself with the people he wants to. >> reporter: kushner's attorneys saying the real estate developer is preparing to resign from his

positions at kushner companies and divest substantial assets. but it seems kushner is already getting started, spotted on capitol hill today. he and wife ivanka will move with their children to d.c. soon and you'll never guess who could be one of his neighbors. the "washingtonian" reporting the family will move into this $5.5 million home in washington two blocks from the obamas' new residence. can you imagine? who will ask to borrow sugar first? speaking of neighbors in our own neighborhood, it was benjamin franklin who said, at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. thank you for watching abc news. as always we're online at abcnews.com and our "nightline" facebook page. thanks for the company, america, good night.