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No longer for sale: The piece of jewelery made by London jeweler Garrard around 1920
Photo: Sotheby's / dpa
Reality star Kim Kardashian has bid on a piece of jewelry once worn by Princess Diana at London auction house Sotheby's.
One bidder paid 163,000 pounds, around 186,000 euros, for the »Attallah Cross«.
A representative of the 42-year-old US celebrity hid behind the bidder, as the auction house confirmed, according to the British news agency PA.
According to the report, on Wednesday in the last minutes of the auction, he had fought a bidding war with three other potential buyers.
Diana had worn the pendant, set with amethysts and diamonds, in public on various occasions.
The jewel, made by the London jeweler Garrard around 1920, belonged to the entrepreneur Naim Attallah at the time.
Diana, who died in a car accident in 1997, had been friends with him.
Before the auction, the »Attallah Cross« was valued at between 80,000 and 120,000 pounds (about 91,000 to 137,000 euros).
Kim Kardashian has previously shown an interest in accessories worn by famous women: At a gala in New York in 2022, she showed up on the red carpet in a dress borrowed from US actress Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.
Monroe wore the Jean Louis dress in 1962 to sing a birthday song to then-US President John F. Kennedy.
After the gala last year, critics claimed that the dress was damaged during the performance.
The designer's former assistant, Bob Mackie, also called the rental a "big mistake."
So he had drawn the sketch for the dress, for Monroe, he said.
Marilyn was a goddess - 'A crazy goddess, but a goddess.
(...) It was made for her.
It was designed for you.
Nobody else should be seen in that dress,” Mackie had said.
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