Thieves break into porn star Yuria Satomi’s home, steal millions of yen
As widely reported in the print and TV media this week, top Japanese porn star (or “sexy actress” as the mainstream media euphemism has it) Yuria Satomi was the victim of theft at her exclusive Nakameguro condo on the morning of October 26.
Two thieves posing as delivery men broke into her apartment after she answered the door. The AV actress was held down by one while the other ransacked her home in search of cash. They were apparently in phone contact with and receiving instructions from an accomplice outside, said Satomi, who feared for her life during the incident despite the men’s reassurances that they were only after her money.
The men eventually found ¥2.5 million in cash in a safe (which was left unlocked) and another ¥3.5 million just lying around in a closet.
She called the police after they had left. The cops quickly identified the thieves’ car from surveillance camera footage and could swiftly arrest three male teenagers aged between 17 and 19 that same afternoon. In their car, they had ¥4 million.
Satomi lives in a prominent high-rise luxury condo in the central Tokyo district of Nakameguro. The 45-story tower has a permanent concierge on the ground floor.
Satomi’s woes with the tax authorities a few years ago exposed how women in the porn and entertainment industry earn very lucrative side incomes through compensated dating. Now aged 35, she is a porn veteran, having made her debut as Aya Koizumi in 2003.
She had so much cash in her apartment apparently to pay for upcoming “beauty expenses” (which we may assume are plastic surgery operations). The intruders seemingly knew of Yuria’s tax trouble, as the figure they accused her of hiding in her home roughly matched the back taxes she famously had to pay.
