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For the launch of Andrea Lieberman’s fashion line, ALC, at Barneys, Jennifer Lopez borrowed $50,000 in diamonds from Swiss billionaire Robert Mouawad to glam up her outfit. Several other stars, including Gwen Stephani and Ellen Pompeo, also borrowed jewelry for the event, but J-Lo was the only one who didn’t return her jewels. Mouawad got a call from her manager saying that she wanted to keep the diamonds, to which Mouawad’s people responded, “eh, what’s $50,000?”
“We received a call from [her manager] Benny Medina, informing us that Jennifer was going to keep the jewelry,” an insider said. “As far as Mr. Mouawad is concerned, Jennifer can have whatever she wants, but a premature demand seemed presumptuous.”
There’s no ill will, however. “Mr. Mouawad is the Swiss billionaire who purchased the 60-carat flawless Mondera Diamond for $50 million,” said our source. “He will lose no sleep over $50,000, and frankly, Jennifer’s endorsement is priceless.”
Medina, reached in Santiago, Chile - where J.Lo’s hubby, Marc Anthony, was being honored and performing sold-out shows - told Page Six: “There was no demand whatsoever. There was an offer. It was very clear.” In return for hosting the show for her friend, Lopez would be given the entire collection of jewelry and clothes, he said.
“She was the only celebrity whose name was on the invite. She would have done it for nothing,” Medina explained. “But this was how it was presented. It was quite a generous offer.”
[From NY Post]
The article is unclear on the timing, but it it seems as if the arrangement was made beforehand, not the next day. Which would mean that J-Lo received the diamonds, as well as the entire ALC clothing line, for one night of hosting. Talk about a free ride.
Somehow I doubt that there was “no ill-will.” Lopez is known for being a diva, expecting what she wants when she wants it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she decided she wanted the diamonds, and that was that - leaving her people to take care of the cleanup. I wonder if Mouawad even knows who J-Lo is. His spokesperson said that her endorsement is “priceless,” but she’s barely on the radar anymore. Her movies are terrible, she hasn’t released a good album in years, and there are constant rumors about her and Marc Anthony breaking up. But I guess when you’re a Swiss billionaire who owns a $50 million diamond, $50,000 here and there really isn’t even a blip on your radar.
Here’s Jennifer “showing off her glamorous locks” according to Pacific Coast News (they’re being a little generous in their description) as she leaves the Byron & Tracey hair salon in Beverly Hills on Saturday. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.
Written by SamHill
Posted in Jennifer Lopez, Jewelry
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26 Responses to “Jennifer Lopez decides not to retun $50,000 of diamonds”
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She’s a stuck-up bitch with those 2 ugly babies of hers…BRING ON THE COMMENTS HATERS!
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White jeans and…a mullet?? Were these photos taken in 1987?
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Her hair color never looks right to me, for some reason. It looks orange against her skin.
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I don’t know what order these events happened it but it kinda reminds me of that old movie where the mom sends the kid to the store to buy cigarettes with $1 and the kid says it isn’t enough.
Mom’s response? “Make it enough.”
Klassy, with a capital K.
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The hair is awwwwwwful. The colour is bad and the faux sideburns could only be pulled off be someone young and counter-culture.
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She’s full of malicious greed, i.e. doesn’t care who she sh*ts on in order to get what she wants. She’s useless and irrelevant.
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Roni - I’m going to have to agree with you on the kids part, they would be pretty hard to love, haha. They are allll daddy :s
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look at the size of her purse!!! good God, i’d throw out my back…
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The thousands she pays on her hair and the diamonds she steals don’t help take the ugly away
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I’m hoping the cut and color were free, too. It looks like crap.
She must miss the days when she could actually afford to pay for things.
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I thought she was on her way to being irrelevant. Can’t we keep it that way?
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She’s a jerk
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What is there to like about this woman? I just don’t see any redeeming qualities…
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Disgusting.
Can’t stand her or her skeletor/vampire husband, I wish they would go away for good!
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Am I paranoid or does it seem like a coincidence that she’s suing a company for millions of dollars because they used photos of her and Marc’s to endorse their products and then this guy comes out and makes the statement that her “endorsement is priceless”? Sounds fishy to me.
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That’s just the way Jenny from the c*ck rolls.
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That huge sack of an ugly purse actually makes her big ass look kinda normal.
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she is a C U Next Thursday
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So much money for such a cheap look !
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It always kind of annoys me that the people who need it least in life get these kind of ridiculous gifts and freebies…
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Nony: I totally agree. Especially a person as utterly graceless as JLo.
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Too bad those poor kids look like the broom stick she married to make Ben jealous lol The only reason she had those kids is because Ben had kids.
I saw her in a concert once and never again all you see is her huge butt sticking out. -
God, what funny and great comments. This is why I read Celebitchy. Thanks one and all.
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If I were J-Lo,I will return that jewelry. Who told you that Mouawad wont lose a sleep with that unreturned $50k jewel? Don’t you know that his staff in Saudi Arabia are the one suffering? They are supposed to have their salaries March 31, Tuesday. But look until now they are not receiving their salaries yet.Have pity to those contract workers who made that jewelry. Or if you will reason out it might not be the reason of their delayed salaries, you can still make a good gesture to those workers if you really decide not to return it and Mouawad agreed that you keep it. Sell that jewelry and give the money back to Mouawad’s underpaid contract workers. Good deed isn’t it!
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Who told you that the Mouawads wont lose a sleep with that $50k jewelry, huh? That’s what you thought!
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i love that she “decided” to keep the jewelry. if anyone non-famous had done that it would be called “stealing.” ah, the hard, hard life of the famous!
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