According to the auction house, Sotheby’s, American reality television star and social media titan Kim Kardashian has acquired the Attallah Cross, the famous amethyst and diamond pendant Princess Diana wore on several occasions.
During the auction house’s “Royal and Noble” sale in London on Wednesday, the item, created in the 1920s by the British jeweler Garrard, fetched 163,800 pounds ($202,300).
The pendant, which Diana famously wore to a charity gala in 1987, sold for more than twice the pre-auction low estimate, and Sotheby’s confirmed that a representative of Kardashian purchased it.
“Jewellery owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very rarely comes on to the market, especially a piece such as the Attallah Cross, which is so colorful, bold, and distinctive,” Sotheby’s Kristian Spofforth said before the sale.
“To some extent, this unusual pendant is symbolic of the princess’s growing self-assurance in her sartorial and jewelry choices, at that particular moment in her life.”
The pendant will not be the first piece of fashion history to cross paths with Kardashian.
Last year, the 42-year-old made headlines for attending the Met Gala in the very dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she serenaded then-president John F Kennedy on his birthday in 1962.
Kardashian was initially accused of having damaged the screen legend’s gown, but Los Angeles-based museum Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, which owns the piece, denied the allegations.
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