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Designer Purses, Fake $100 Bills Litter Bel Air Street

A finance author, a photo shoot, and a Bel Air burglary: How $100 bills and designer bags ended up strewn along a Bel Air street.

LOS ANGELES, CA - Detectives in Los Angeles are working to determine how burglars broke into a Bel Air home and why their ill-gotten haul ended up blowing in the wind on Monday.

The victim, author and money influencer Amanda Frances aka 'Money Queen', thinks she knows what happened, however: Instant Karma.

The burglary was reported in the early morning hours Monday just after 1 a.m. in the 15400 block of Milldale Drive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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An armed guard called the police, reporting three men broke into the home and then fled in a black BMW. By the time police arrived, the burglars were gone, but high-end purses were thrown atop a parked car and hundreds of hundred-dollar bills appeared to litter the street.

The burglars may have discovered what Frances already knew. They were fakes — props used for the influencer's photo shoot.

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“The burglars ransacked my closet, damaging my home in the process, but they dropped nearly everything, prioritizing the prop money when confronted by a neighbor’s security guard,” Frances said in a statement released to the media.

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