Michelle Obama Received $244000 in Foreign Gifts
U.S. News & World Report-Feb. 15, 2011
... President Obama received a $6,000 handcarved ebony wooden sculpture from the President of Tanzania, Michelle Obama received a $14,200 pearl necklace ...
Salvador Assael, 88, Dies; Coaxed Riches From Pearls
New York Times-Apr. 12, 2011
Salvador Assael, a titan of the cultured pearl business whose wares were prized ... jewelry business, at once larger than life and secretive to the point of opacity.
Jewelry Made From Cat Fur Now Exists. Thanks, Internet
Wired News (blog)-Jun. 28, 2011
... fur balls attached to a branchlike necklace that "would be appropriate at any gala event," and some more classic necklaces which look a little like chunky pearl ...
The Glittering Legacy of Elizabeth Taylor
New York Times-Sep. 12, 2011
(Burton outbid the Spanish court at an auction in 1969, buying the pearl for his wife's 37th birthday.) But the necklace that the pearl dangles from is equally ...