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Most famous robberies in the world: There are many ways of getting enough money to live on – working hard all your life, gambling or being born into royalty are all possibilities…or you could just steal it. That’s the route taken by the people on this list, who have managed to pull off the most audacious and impressive heists in the history of heist-ing. Some of them got caught, some didn’t but they were all, for a time, insanely rich. Find out more in our Top 10 Most Famous Heists. More.. Davido vs Wizkid – 9 solid reasons why Davido is better than Wizkid (With Photos) The 6 physical features that men can’t resist in ladies – #4 and #5 will make even a billionaire lose control 10 celebs who looked better before they became rich and famous – Nicki Minaj was way prettier (With Pics) 6 places girls want you to touch in her body that will blow her mind – #3 is a deal breaker 10. The Isabella Gardner Museum Heist <img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-21432" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner-600x445.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner-600x445.jpg 600w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner-300x222.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner-290x215.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner-150x111.jpg 150w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gardner.jpg 624w" alt="" width="600" height="445" /> One of the biggest art thefts ever and one of the most famous unsolved crimes. The scene was the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, and the date was March 18 1990. Two apparent policeman walked in during the night, while St Patrick’s Day celebrations were in full swing outside, and tricked the security guards into leaving their posts. The thieves then tied the guards up and made off with several major pieces of art, including Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” and his self portrait. The works have never been recovered and the museum is still offering a reward of $5 million for information that would lead to their return. It is estimated that they are worth around $500 million but, of course, you can’t really put a price on art. There are a few puzzling things about the case, such as why the thieves passed by valuable Botticellis and didn’t take them, but maybe it will all be solved one day. 9. The Graff Diamonds Robbery <img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-21433" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720-600x399.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720-600x399.jpg 600w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720-300x199.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720-290x192.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720-150x99.jpg 150w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/graff-diamond-robbers-246586059-216720.jpg 615w" alt="" width="600" height="399" /> Now this is an example of how the most elaborate plans can go wrong. The men who robbed the Graff Diamonds jewelry store in August 2009 had taken a lot of care to escape detection – they engaged the services of a professional make-up studio and had prosthetic faces attached, telling the make-up artist that it was for a music video. Then they simply walked into the store, brandished their guns and escaped with 43 pieces of jewelry, worth an estimated £40 million ($65 million). They even took care to keep changing getaway vehicles, to shake the police off their trail. But one of them left his mobile phone in the car, which allowed the police to track,arrest and jail them. The gang leader – Aman Kassaye – is currently serving 23 years, with the other three robbers serving 16 years each. None of the jewelry has so far been recovered. 8. The Stardust Casino Heist <img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-21435" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i-600x387.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i-600x387.jpg 600w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i-300x193.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i-290x187.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i-150x96.jpg 150w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stardust_1466939i.jpg 620w" alt="" width="600" height="387" /> It’s widely acknowledged that robbing a Vegas casino is among the toughest of heists to pull off. But several people have tried, and some have succeeded. The most successful was Bill Brennan, a man no-one knows anything about outside his impressive feat. He worked in the Stardust casino and midway through a shift in September 1992, he went to lunch. That’s not remarkable. What is remarkable is that he never came back. And has never been seen since. Oh, and there’s also the small matter of the $500,000 in chips and cash that he had stashed in his rucksack. It’s the biggest casino theft ever, and almost glorious in its simplicity. Some say he was in cahoots with a security guard, who later killed him, explaining both his disappearance and the ease with which he walked out with the money. Again, it may never be explained. 7. The Banco Central Burglary <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21436" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bancocentral1258193704.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bancocentral1258193704.jpg 553w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bancocentral1258193704-300x199.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bancocentral1258193704-290x192.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bancocentral1258193704-150x99.jpg 150w" alt="" width="553" height="368" /> The holder of the Guinness World Record for the biggest bank heist is this 2005 Brazilian theft. The haul was R$ 164,755,150 (about $71.6 million), carried off in 50-Real notes, which weighed about 3.5 tons altogether. The method was a classic bank-robbing one – the robbers tunneled under the bank from a building 78 meters away and somehow got through a meter of re-enforced concrete to get into the vault and get away with the money. After that, it all got a bit nasty, with the body of suspect Luis Fernando Ribeiro turning up two months after the robbery, in an apparently related murder. Several other suspects were kidnapped, some by police officers (Brazil is not above a bit of immoral policing). Only around R$9 million of the money has ever been recovered, prompting rumors of a police cover-up. Another one that will run and run. 6. The Damiani Showroom Robbery <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21438" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Damiani.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Damiani.jpg 296w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Damiani-290x213.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Damiani-150x110.jpg 150w" alt="" width="296" height="218" /> This 2008 robbery has many things in common with the other thefts on the list – the use of a tunnel to break in (in this case to a Milan jewelry showroom), the robbers wearing fake police uniforms..and a fatal flaw. The fatal flaw in this case was that some of the most valuable pieces weren’t in the Damiani showroom at the time – they were adorning A-listers in Hollywood. The thieves had picked Oscar night to strike, knowing that the showroom owner would attending the ceremony in L.A. but seemingly not realizing that the most expensive pieces would be going as well – like the 1865-diamond bracelet that Tilda Swinton was wearing (above). Still, the thieves got away with up to $30 million worth of jewelry, so they probably weren’t too upset….at least, not until they were arrested the following December. 5. The Securitas Depot Robbery <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21440" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Securitas-robber-pleads-g-001.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Securitas-robber-pleads-g-001.jpg 460w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Securitas-robber-pleads-g-001-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Securitas-robber-pleads-g-001-290x174.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Securitas-robber-pleads-g-001-150x90.jpg 150w" alt="" width="460" height="276" /> The biggest cash robbery in British history now, and it’s the £53,116,76 (approx $87 million) that was stolen from a Securitas depot in February 2006. The manager of the depot was pulled over by what he thought was a police car (robbers seem to use that trick a lot) and kidnapped before being taken to join his already-kidnapped family. They were then taken to the depot, where the robbers took the cash and left them and 14 members of staff tied up. Eventually five men – Stuart Royle, Jetmir Bucpapa, Roger Coutts, Lea Rusha and Emir Hysenaj – were found guilty of the robbery and given life sentences but at least one suspect – Kayenide ‘Kane’ Patterson – remains at large, presumably with the money. 4. The Great Brink’s Robbery <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21442" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/brinks.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/brinks.jpg 539w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/brinks-300x174.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/brinks-290x168.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/brinks-150x87.jpg 150w" alt="" width="539" height="314" /> It’s another Boston-based crime and one that was described as “the crime of the century”, although the criminal masterminds involved all eventually got themselves arrested by the FBI. The robbery took place on January 17 1950, at the Brink’s building. The robbers had practiced the heist for around two years and spent a long time choosing the optimum time of date to commit it. Eventually, it was 6:55PM when the robbers walked in with their copied keys, tied the staff up and left with $1,218,211.29 in cash, and $1,557,183.83 in checks. It took six years for the FBI to pin them down, but all were tried, except for the ones who had died in the interim, and eight of them received life sentences. The crime of the century fell flat at the end it seems… 3. The Antwerp Diamond Heist <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21444" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/antwerp.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/antwerp.jpg 568w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/antwerp-300x180.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/antwerp-290x174.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/antwerp-150x90.jpg 150w" alt="" width="568" height="341" /> Another crime to claim the title “Heist of the Century”, although it’s a different century to the last one. The robbery took place in Antwerp in February 2003 and the robbers, led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, stole $100 million worth of diamonds, making it, at the time, the world’s biggest diamond heist. Notarbartolo had meticulously planned the crime, hiring an office in the diamond center for two and a half years before the robbery, in order to gain both credibility and a 24-hour resident’s access card. Unfortunately, he made a mistake – he left a half-eaten sandwich at the crime scene, and the police were able to trace him using DNA testing. He was jailed for 10 years, but released on parole and has since claimed that someone else paid him to do the robbery. 2. The Lufthansa Raid <img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-21445" src="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lufthansa-Raid-600x375.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" srcset="https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lufthansa-Raid-600x375.jpg 600w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lufthansa-Raid-300x187.jpg 300w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lufthansa-Raid-290x181.jpg 290w, https://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Lufthansa-Raid-150x93.jpg 150w" alt="" width="600" height="375" /> Many of our heists have inspired movies, but the biggest movie of all of them has to be Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”, which took part of its inspiration from the 1978 Lufthansa Raid. The target was a vault at JFK airport, which stored American currency flown back from servicemen in West Germany. The heist was planned by Jimmy Burke, who was associated with the Lucchese crime family, and carried out almost flawlessly by his associates, who walked away with $6 million, three times what Burke was expecting. Then it all went wrong. Parnell “Stacks” Edwards was supposed to dispose of the van used in the robbery but instead left it in a no parking zone, covered with his fingerprints. The FBI knew that Edwards was connected to Burke and started closing in, but Edwards was murdered before he could talk. This set off a spate of murders that saw most of the heist participants killed, along with anyone who could potentially talk to the FBI about it. But justice caught up with Burke eventually and he was convicted of the murder of Richard Eaton in 1985 and died of lung cancer in 1996. The $6 million was never recovered. 1. The Great Train Robbery When it comes to famous heists, however, there’s only one that everyone knows and that’s the 1963 Great Train Robbery, that took place in Buckinghamshire, England. The 15 robbers, including the famous Ronnie Biggs, got away with £2.6 million, which is around £46 million in modern money and the method they used was almost unbelievably simple. They tampered with the signals, waited for the train to stop and then boarded it and demanded the money from the guards. Of course, they were caught and several of the men received 30 year sentences, with one dying in prison. But they are assured of their place in the history books as the most famous robbers ever. CLICK HERE to follow our Channel for juicy updates & free giveaways. 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