The dazzling diamond Lady Gaga wore to the Oscars was last seen on Audrey Hepburn
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Lady Gaga made a statement on the red carpet Sunday night, and this time, it wasn't for wearing meat as a dress.
The Best Actress nominee shined in an Alexander McQueen dress and the most dazzling of jewels: the 128.54-carat Tiffany & Co. yellow diamond known as "The Tiffany Diamond." This is only the third time the diamond has ever been worn, and the first time on a red carpet: Audrey Hepburn sported it in 1961 for Breakfast at Tiffany's promotional images, and before that, Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse wore it to the 1957 Tiffany Ball in Newport, Rhode Island, W Magazine reports.
Discovered in South Africa in 1877, Charles Lewis Tiffany bought the diamond for $18,000 in 1878; it was then made into a cushion-cut with 82 facets. The diamond, which has made appearances at museums and jewelry fairs, was actually up for sale in 1972, with Tiffany asking $5 million for it (that's $30 million today), but there were no takers.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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