“The Taylor-Burton” – discovered in De Beers’ Premier mine in 1966. It weighed 240,80 carats but cut into a smaller 69,42 carat diamond and later auctioned for US$1 050 000 and renamed “Cartier”. It was bought by actor Richard Burton and given to his wife Elizabeth Taylor. In 1978, Taylor sold it to raise funds for a hospital in Botswana.
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