During Oscar Week, one would expect exclusive scenes — not crime scenes. Yet that’s what the launch party for photog Patrick McMullen’s new book, Glamour Girls, nearly turned into when millions of dollars in diamonds went missing.
Guests like Dita Von Teese were offered luxury jewels by Leviev to don for the bash, as over 800 karats’ worth were delivered to the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood on Tuesday night.
Carted in a Brinks armored truck and accompanied by 20 armed guards, the baubles turned the hotel’s terrace into a Fortress of Bling. Some L.A. social types, however, had a different plan when they snuck through a side door and escaped to the hotel restaurant for a private dinner.
L.A. ladies like Brooke Davenport and Cornelia Guest sat down for supper in the hired jewels without alerting their security guards, sending panic through the event as organizers tried to locate the missing jewels. When the ladies turned up just one room away, they weren’t punished for eluding their keepers.
At midnight, however, the ladies “turned into pumpkins. After the last glass of champagne was drunk, the guards came back and took the jewelry. They literally stripped it off at the table.”
Dita didn’t mind, iced-out to the tune of roughly $20 million (above). The 35-year-old burlesque star compensated the next day by scooping up some Christian Louboutins in the shoemaker’s Beverly Hills boutique.
No word on how long the bombshell will be in town, but she may want to avoid the music scene. Ex-hubby Marilyn Manson is scheduled to perfrom in Los Angeles tomorrow night.
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