Photos: PA/Christie's/Empics
Kim's $65,000 (or rather $64,900, as the auction website more accurately reveals) was a good $57,000 over the highest estimate price and contributed to the auction bringing in over $115 million in total.
Somehow our jewellery boxes look a tad unimpressive after that!
For more Elizabeth Taylor check out the beauty gallery below:
- 1949<p> A radiant Taylor presented an award at the 1949 Oscars.</p>
- 1956<p> The actress went under a beauty transformation in 1956. With a pixie crop and her statement red lips, she was already style icon in the making.</p>
- 1959<p> Taylor's violet eyes dazzled on her wedding day when she married Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas.</p>
- 1960<p> The 60s siren looked gorgeous en route to Paris in 1960; not a hair out of place and the perfect pink pout.</p>
- 1963<p> No one could pull off Queen Cleopatra quite like Liz. She rocked the black eye liner for one of her most famous roles in 1963's <em>Cleopatra</em>.</p>
- 1964<p> There are many wedding photos to choose from, but this has to be our favourite. The bride looked beautiful when she married Richard Burton with with flowers adorning her hair.</p>
- 1976<p> Taylor proved she was the queen of blue eyeshadow on an outing in Manhattan in 1976.</p>
- 1987<p> What a hairstyle! Taylor was a force to be reckoned with when she arrived at Cannes Film Festival in 1987.</p>
- 2002<p> Out of control eyeshadow teamed with coral lisptick. We won't have a bad word said against her.</p>
- 1947<p> A young Elizabeth Taylor looked fresh faced and beautiful in one of her earlier films, <em>Cynthia</em>.</p>
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