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...self-possessed and cool. She dresses according to the Joan Collins Dynasty handbook, complete with diamonds and decolletage. With her, as with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower half of her ring finger. She asserts that size does not matter. "It's the sentiment that counts," she says in her accented English...
After months of appraisal, Whetstine last week went public with his treasure: a 1,905-carat star sapphire with an estimated uncut value of $2.28 million. Said he: "I'm astounded that this one pebble out of God's universe will take care of my children's lives. That makes me feel very good." But somewhere a rock hound is crying...
...balance sheet alone lists a total of $88.7 million in five banks in the U.S., Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Imelda Marcos' taste for opulent adornment was also in evidence. A document dated November 1984 shows $411,746 in purchases of jewelry, including emeralds, rubies and one 519-carat sapphire. There were indications that the Marcoses may have sensed their impending ouster. Among the papers were $4 million in certificates and bearer bonds, most of which were issued in the month before the couple departed Manila...
...assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s...
...cars and girls--into a world of faster cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider--he has as many wants as a child on Santa's knee. He is overjoyed when Dorothy's talents land them in the Los Angeles fast lane...