Bollywood beauty and international model Mallika Shera wat has been tear gassed and beaten up by three masked intruders in her own Paris apartment block, police revealed today.

The horrific attack on the 40-year-old Indian sex symbol comes just a month after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in a neighbouring flat.It was last Friday night when Ms Sherawat and French businessman lover Cyrille Auxenfans, 45, arrived at her residential building in the upmarket 16th arrondissement of Paris at around 9.30pm.

Actress Mallika Sherawat (left) was attacked outside her apartment in Paris, at an apartment neighbouring the scene where Kim Kardashian (right) was robbed at gunpoint.

The actress, pictured here with US President Barack Obama in Los Angeles in 2011, was attacked in her own Paris apartment block.