The famous pendant was a bit of a fake: Asprey & Garrad did create it specifically for the film and used a real sapphire, but it was not framed with diamonds, but with much cheaper cubic zirconia. So the pendant cost “only” $10,000. But later, when the film was released and viewers began storming movie theaters and buying up T-shirts with the faces of their favorite characters, jewelers created exactly the same piece of jewelry, but this time with real diamonds. The jewelry with a 170-carat sapphire and 65 diamonds was sold at a charity auction for $2.2 million.<\/p>\n
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“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
\nThe Legendary Necklace with the Yellow Diamond “Moon of Baroda”<\/p>\n
Marilyn Monroe didn’t just sing about diamonds being a girl’s best friend, she also openly demonstrated it. In a pink dress and the legendary Harry Winston necklace with a 24-carat yellow diamond, the Moon of Baroda – that’s how we will remember her forever. At the time of filming, this stone was already about 500 years old, and there were already enough legends and stories around it. We don’t know what wanderings it went on after filming, but after some time, the diamond appeared at auction without the necklace and was valued at a billion dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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