a 45-carat blue rock that ruins everyone who loves it, allegedly, forever, dramatically.
means a famously large, deep-blue diamond, mined in india, now sitting in the smithsonian, wrapped in centuries of curse rumors.
from cut from a larger stone smuggled out of india's kollur mine in the 1600s, it passed through french royalty and london bankers before jeweler harry winston donated it to the smithsonian in 1958, mailed via regular postal service in a plain brown box.
marie antoinette — rumored wearer before losing her head in 1793
evalyn walsh mclean — socialite owner whose family suffered repeated tragedies, 1911 onward
harry winston — jeweler who mailed it to the smithsonian in 1958
smithsonian natural history — its permanent home, viewed by over 6 million yearly