By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Spider-Man was nowhere in sight when Mary Jane’s SoHo Grand penthouse suite was looted in August 2007.
Actress Kirsten Dunst, who played the super hero's girlfriend in the movie trilogy, testified Thursday at Manhattan Criminal Court in the burglary trial of James Jimenez, who's accused of stealing her cash, handbags and even her lip balm.
Dunst was staying at the hotel during shooting for "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," and shared a suite with co-star Simon Pegg. She told the jury about returning to her room at 4 a.m. after filming to find things missing.
“We thought maybe the wardrobe person just put [our stuff] into the closet,” said Dunst, wearing a dark tunic and black pants. “Then Simon came back to the room and he also noticed his stuff wasn’t there, and we realized someone had taken it.”
Gone were their wallets, purses, credit cards, cameras and cell phones.
Dunst and Pegg, along with her assistant and his wife, had been in and out of the suite all evening for make-up touch-ups and to nosh on sushi from Nobu, but hadn't noticed anything amiss until they wrapped for the night.
Dunst said her purse contained sunglasses, a wallet with a California driver’s license and about $2,000 in cash—her per diem allowance for about one week for working on the film. Her Balenciaga handbag was valued at $13,000 and her Marc Jacobs handbag at $2,500, the Daily News reported.
“The last time I remember seeing it, it was in the bedroom, on the bed,” Dunst said.
She got got the bag back, but told the court her money and sunglasses were gone. "And a lip balm," she giggled.
Prosecutors said Jimenez, 35, and his alleged accomplice, Jarrod Beinerman, 34, were seen on security cameras leaving the suite holding two brown bags, believed to have contained the stolen goods.
Pegg, who also testified, said his Sony Cyber-shot camera with about 300 saved photos were taken.
“It dawned on us slowly because obviously you don’t want to think [a theft] had happened,” said Pegg, who added he immediately checked for his wedding ring once he realized a crime occurred. It was where he left it.
The actors left their rooms unlocked when they went to shoot in the lobby, because the entire penthouse was supposedly only accessible with a key card.
“We assumed it was safe,” Pegg said.
