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Villa profited handsomely from the business. For himself, he collected cigarette speedboats and vintage autos and racing cars, from a 1957 Cadillac to a 1990 Ferrari. For his wife, he collected jewelry--a $22,000 Rolex watch, a three-carat $44,000 wedding ring and $9,000 diamond earrings...
...driven from office, Richard and Elizabeth traveled with retinues, like royalty. They made memorable scenes and drank each other into stupors and blackouts. They dined with Rothschilds or Windsors. If Richard belted Elizabeth and felt contrite the next morning, he might make up by buying her, say, the 33.19-carat Krupp diamond...
...driven from office, Richard and Elizabeth traveled with retinues, like royalty. They made memorable scenes and drank one another into stupors and blackouts. They dined with Rothschilds or Windsors. If Richard belted Elizabeth and felt contrite the next morning, he might make up by buying her, say, the 33.19-carat Krupp diamond...
RING Choose the cut and the carat; mail it to a "friend" at adiamondisforever.com...
...Ladies in her day had to be delicate about such matters, but with a voice full of foreboding she'd offer these words to the wise: "He's never going to buy the cow if he can get the milk for free." The cow, of course, was the one-carat rock, the white picket fence, the happily ever after...