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Attended by Cartier jewellers Liz Taylor tries on a beautiful diamond necklace with matching earrings she spotted while window-shopping in Monte Carlo with her third husband Mike Todd. At $500,000, the necklace was beyond Todd’s budget, but the earrings were her consolation prize. Monte Carlo 1958. Source: Magazine Images du Monde, the edition of 21/02/1958 - Photo by Edward Quinn

Attended by Cartier jewellers Liz Taylor tries on a beautiful diamond necklace with matching earrings she spotted while window-shopping in Monte Carlo with her third husband Mike Todd. At $500,000, the necklace was beyond Todd’s budget, but the earrings were her consolation prize. Monte Carlo 1958. Source: Magazine Images du Monde, the edition of 21/02/1958

This page from the magazine *Images du Monde* documents “L'AFFAIRE DU COLLIER” (The Necklace Affair) in Monte Carlo, 1958. Assisted by a Cartier representative, Elizabeth Taylor tries on a spectacular diamond bib necklace she had spotted while window-shopping with her husband, Mike Todd. The main photograph shows Taylor adorned in the piece. While the necklace’s $500,000 price was beyond Todd’s budget, the actress received the matching earrings as a consolation prize.

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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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