Entertainment

Real Lee pleads no contest

Some networks get all the luck.

Three days before the debut of a TV movie about LA’s notorious “Bling Ring” — four teens who broke into celebrity homes and carted off $3 million in jewelry and clothes — one of the ringleaders has made a deal with prosecutors.

Rachel Lee, 21, snuck into court in LA late Friday and pleaded no contest to a single burglary charge — breaking into “The Hills” star Audrina Patridge’s house.

In exchange for other charges being dropped, Lee is expected to get a four-year jail sentence.

Lee and four other well-to-do youngsters are the real-life stars of a Lifetime movie. “The Bling Ring,” set to debut tonight.

Ironically, the movie — which had been originally slated to run in early August — was postponed because the network said it wanted more time to promote it.

There does not appear to be a connection between the movie’s premiere and Lee’s decision to cut a deal with prosecutors.

None of the five youngsters is cooperating with the making of the movie, the network says. In fact, the names of the characters in the movie have been changed, though it is not hard to connect the real-life ring members with their movie counterparts.

But the other four — Nicholas Prugo, Diana Tamayo, Courtney Leigh Ames and Roy Lopez Jr. — are going to trial early next year on the charges.

Potential jurors are sure to be asked if they saw the movie.

The ring was big news when they were arrested in 2009 for a string of alleged burglaries at the homes of actor Orlando Bloom, Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Rachel Bilson, Brian Austin-Green and Megan Fox.

The gang used gossip sites like TMZ to pinpoint where the stars lived and when they were out of town, according to reports.

The story of a mostly-girl gang breaking into the homes of celebs — and then bragging about the break-ins to their friends on line — was irresistible.