Marlene Dietrich’s iconic ruby and diamond bracelet going under hammer for up to $4.5m
Marlene Dietrich’s iconic Van Cleef and Arpels ruby and diamond bracelet is being auctioned at a starting price of up to $4.5million. Worn by the late actress – who was killed by kidney failure at her Paris apartment in 1992 aged 90 – to the Academy Awards in 1951 and in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Stage Fright’, which was released a year earlier, the “sculptural” piece is part of the upcoming Christie’s sale ‘The Magnificent Jewels of Anne Eisenhower’. Claibourne Poindexter from Christie’s said about it being a unique piece of “art”: “This bracelet is legendary in a lot of ways. “It was one of (Marle...