9. The lead detective on the bling ring case, Brett Goodkin, served as a technical advisor for the film, making $12,500. He even stepped in front of the camera and made a guest appearance as himself. As all the cases he was advising on hadn’t even been tried yet he might get fired now.
10. Brett Goodkin, called the bling ring members “rats.” “All of them are little rats.”
11. In her thank-yous for her the book The Bling Ring, Nancy Jo Sales thanks her friend for making her laugh by saying of the young people she was writing about, “This is upper-middle-class crack head behavior.”
12. On the subject of Brett Goodkin, bling ring member Johnny Ajar said, “I know intimately everything that happened. If your main source is court docs and snitch statements, you have to understand most of that is not very credible. Also Det. Goodkin [Brett Goodkin] is under investigation now for multiple offenses, in regards to this case. Hopefully he will loose [sic] his job. He is the one that Sofia Coppola chose to be her source, honestly I laugh a little inside every time I here [sic] that.”
