Besides the gargantuan ring, Burton couldn't help himself but to shower Taylor with more expensive jewelry, which has sold for even more now. The pearl, diamond and ruby necklace, known as "La Peregrina," (seen to left) was purchased at auction for $37,000 in 1969 by Burton for Taylor.
It was estimated to sell for $2 million to $3 million yesterday, but instead sold for $11,842,500 and breaking the world record of purchasing a pearl, surpassing the 2007 record of $7,096,000.
A little history of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor:
- Burton and Taylor, playing Marc Antony and Cleopatra, fall in love for real on the Cleopatra set in 1961. Both are married to others, and their affair becomes a public scandal.
- Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz described their chemistry as,"being locked in a cage with two tigers."
- On March 6, 1964, Taylor's divorce from Eddie Fisher becomes final and she marries Burton nine days later.
- Later that year, they adopt Maria, a German girl.
- Taylor and Burton film over a dozen collaborations, including the groundbreaking drama 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.'
- The couple divorces in 1974, remarries in 1975, and divorces again in 1976.
[Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor swimming with Liza, Taylor's daughter.]
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