This weekend I attended a charity event for a local AIDS organization. I won this framed picture of Elizabeth Taylor in a raffle. I'm so excited!You may notice the large diamond on her left hand. Liz has some infamous jewels. This particular ring is the famous "Krupp Diamond." The stone weighs 33.19 carats! However, this is not the largest diamond Liz has owned, if you can believe it. There was also the 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton diamond. She no longer owns this stone, having sold it to help pay for her sixth husband's (but seventh marriage--it's kind of (but not exactly) like counting presidencies and how Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms), Sen. John Warner (R-VA), political campaign in the 1970's.
Some sources mistakenly report that she sold the Taylor-Burton diamond to build a hospital in Africa. That is false. She sold a rare perfect pink diamond (I think it was around 10 carats) to build a hospital in Africa just after she married Richard Burton for the second time. The hospital ended up being eaten by the jungle, and Liz to this day regrets selling the pink diamond. She also regrets selling the Taylor-Burton diamond, but she doesn't elaborate on her reasons why. Probably the whole failed marriage to Warner thing, but I'm just spit-balling.
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