Kim Kardashian West flees France after being robbed at gunpoint in exclusive hotel as five men escape with jewellery worth millions.

US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has fled the French capital after being robbed at gunpoint in an exclusive hotel by a gang posing as police officers who stole up to ten million euros worth of jewellery.

Sources close to Kardashian West, who is married to the US rapper Kanye West, said she was left "badly shaken but physically unharmed."

A police source told AFP that Kardashian West left Paris on Monday morning after being questioned about the robbery.

Unconfirmed French media reports said the masked robbers, who were disguised as police officers, found Kardashian West in the bathroom when they struck. They are said to have tied her up before fleeing with an estimated 10 million euros (£8.6m) in valuables.

The gang had kidnapped and handcuffed a night guard who led them to Kardashian's room.

Kardashian was staying in the Hotel de Pourtalès, a 19th century neo-Renaissance town mansion in Paris' cosseted 8th arrondissement.

The "hôtel partiulier" at 7, rue Tronchet has no internet site and is reportedly a kind of uber-select Airbnb for the superrich rather than a traditional hotel.

According to The Fab Day blog, other regulars to its set of nine apartments whose interiors were recently redesigned by Philippe Starck, are Brad Pitt and Mick Jagger.