The diamond had multiple owners, and the Dutch financier Henry Philip Hope was given the opportunity to bear his second, more well-known name. The Hope family chose to sell the stone to Pierre Cartier because they were about to go bankrupt. Cartier was nearly out of desperation to find a buyer for such a costly embellishment when Evelyn Walsh Macklin, an American, appeared out of nowhere. The woman was agnostic, a fan of jazz music and culture, and she lived in opulence and champagne.
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