Famed auction house Christie’s is planning to sell off 700 jewels worth an estimated $150million that all belonged to the widow of a Nazi Party member who made his fortune buying out Jewish businesses. But from then on, journalist Stephanie Stephan said, ‘Horten developed a routine for seizing Jewish businesses’ in a process called Aryanization in which Jews were forced to sell their businesses to Aryans at reduced rates. By 1937, Horten became a member of the Nazi Party. Helmut married Heidi in 1966 when she was 19 and he was around 50 years old. By the time he died in 1987, Helmut left Heidi with nearly a $1billion inheritance. But all of the jewelry was purchased using money her husband Helmut made off the backs of Jews in the Holocaust, when they were forced to sell their businesses – often at greatly reduced rates. But, De Jong says, ‘he did not have Nazi ideology. Anthea Peers, the president of Christie’s Europe, Middle East and Africa touted Heidi Horten’s collection as ‘one of the most beautifully curated’ to ‘ever come up in the jewelry world.’ It includes a sapphire and diamond necklace worth $1.5million and a jadeite and diamond necklace valued at $16.5million. The owner felt pressured to flee Germany as the Nazis came to power and sold his business at a fair price. Helmut, who was once a member of the Nazi Party, used those businesses to build his eponymously named department store franchise. They were coerced by authorities or by Horten himself,’ he continued. The collection includes a sapphire and diamond necklace worth $1.5million and a jadeite and diamond necklace valued at $16.5million. And following the purchases, De Jong said, Horten would take out advertisements in local newspapers proclaiming the businesses were now under Aryan ownership. He was interested in expanding his business empire.

Helmut married Heidi in 1966 when she was 19 and he was around 50 years old.

As part of his efforts to expand his empire, Stephan said, Horten sought Jewish-occupied businesses in German-occupied territories. By the time he died in 1987, Helmut left Heidi with nearly a $1billion inheritance. We are aware there is a painful history,’ Peers told the New York Times. This man immediately fired my father because he opposed Aryanization and advised the owner not to sell,’ she said. Hauser’s family then sued Christie’s London last June in Paris civil court, and in February a judge sided with them. In his report, Hoeres acknowledges Horten had exploited Jewish business owners, he had initially paid ‘quite normal market prices’ for their business. She said her father, Reinhold, had been working for Gerzon, the largest department store in Amsterdam when Horten ‘used his influence with the German occupiers in the Netherlands to appoint a German administrator’ who would steer the businesses to him. Before she died last year, Heidi commissioned historian Peter Hoeres to research and write about her late husband’s past. But, he also said his report surfaced information that Horten used forced labor at a Berlin company he purchased in 1943 that repaired airplanes. But when Christie’s sold the painting in 2005 for $115,185 its sale did not include a provenance history that mentioned Hauser’s previous ownership. He had planned to escape to America, but was soon captured by the Nazis. Helmut married Heidi in 1966 when she was 19 and he was around 50 years old. My father led a lawsuit against Horten, consulted lawyers and spent a lot of money in the process,’ Stephan recounted. Christie’s must now pay the family a $545 daily fine for any delays identifying the painting’s current owner and location, as well as $10,900 in procedural fees. The French government later included photographs of the stolen artwork in its official catalog of items looted by Nazis in the country. He also cited several instances where Horten kept Jews on as wither employees or suppliers, and noted that although he was a member of the Nazi party, h was later expelled. Then in 2017 when the painting’s current owner, an anonymous British collector, approached Christie’s about selling the painting again its researchers discovered it once belonged to Hauser, at which point its legal team contacted his heirs and offered to split the proceeds from the sale between the heirs and the current owner. Unfortunately, the Jewish business owner did not heed her father’s advice, and sold his business after being pressured. The painting was originally owned by Lionel Hauser, an art collector and Jewish banker in Paris who reported in 1945 the Nazis confiscated his entire art collection – including The Penitent Magdalene – from his Paris home three years earlier.

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Dior himself was superstitious: when he found an eight-pointed star on the street, he took it as a sign he should open his own couture house. Founded by Sheherazade Goldsmith, the brand is known for its crystal lockets framed with gold into which you can drop mini bejewelled and precious charms: a shell for protection, a diamond X for a kiss. High-street chain Pandora and its signature Moments charm bracelets, introduced in 2000, are an affordable way into the trend. People have commissioned everything from favourite poems to marriage proposals. In lockdown necessity became the mother of invention: ‘I was worried if FedEx stopped shipping how we could send jewellery in a normal envelope with a stamp.’ Inspired by stories she’d read of knights wearing their heart on their sleeve, she created CB Wishes, 18-carat gold charms that come with a threaded needle and can be sewn on to anything as a lucky talisman. Their success shows how much we love to display our life and love stories: latest figures show that Pandora presides over a revenue of nearly £2.5 billion. ‘There’s a distinct sentimentality in the charm bracelet for me,’ she says. Designs include a star for health, scales for balance and a heart for love. When it came to celebrating ten years of her brand, Annoushka Ducas (who also founded Links of London) launched My Life in Seven Charms, a bespoke service where she will help to create a set of beautifully made charms that represent important things in your life. The medallion on a fine gold chain bracelet is a fashion editor favourite, but you can opt for anything from rings to chokers. Hailing from a long line of jewellers, Carolina offers a Recharmed service: take in your unworn jewellery and she can turn it into a charm necklace. She’s also brought a new dimension to charms. Creating personal charm jewellery doesn’t have to be expensive. The new collection, Lumiere, is a collaboration with jewellery designer Chantal Conrad and about ‘modernising an old Victorian idea’, says Chantal. It’s this emblem, combined with a rose – a flower he was obsessed with – that forms the basis of the signature design emblem for this talismanic collection. They can be worn as bracelets or necklaces – I wear one on a long chain with just a diamond four-leaf clover inside. Inspired by a vintage charm given to Chantal by her husband that contained ‘tiny words’ viewed through a small magnifying lens within, plus her love for letters, the duo have created a modern version that allows you to engrave miniature messages.

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Taylor Swift was joined by her famous gal pals Blake Lively and Ice Spice as she arrived at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday to watch Super Bowl LVIII. She was decked out with a graduated link necklace worth $18,500, along with a glittering diamond pavé necklace costing $78,000 and a yellow gold graduated link necklace worth $62,000, according to Page Six. Blake also wore Chiefs’ red, sporting a vibrant Adidas tracksuit. It featured the number 60 on the back, in reference to the year the Kansas Chiefs were established. She sparkled up her look with gold (This Web-site) jewelry, which included a stunning gold Tiffany jewelry worth nearly half a million dollars. Taylor carried a sold-out red jacket on her shoulder by Erin Andrew’s brand WEAR, retailing for $129. She styled her hair in very glamorous bouncy curls and matched her tracksuit with red heels. As she entered the stadium she walked surrounded by her inner circle, including the Gossip Girl star, 36, with whom she’s been friends for many years, the Munch rapper, 24, as well as longtime pal Ashley Avignone. The jewelry costs quite the pretty penny – the Stephanie Gottlieb necklace is priced at a whopping $4,250. Swift accessorized her outfit with a custom Judith Leiber bag in the shape of a football. The Kansas City Chiefs ultimately beat out the slight favorite San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, as Patrick Mahomes threw a three-yard game-winning touchdown pass to Mecole Hardman in overtime. As for glam she opted for red lipstick, and accessorized with an ’87’ necklace – the number of his jersey. The songstress styled her blond hair in a ponytail, with her bangs framing her face. The hitmaker looked stylish as ever in a black Dion Lee corset top, retailing for $720, and $1200 black jeans by AREA with crystal details. Taylor’s boyfriend Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs emerged triumphant with a 25-22 win over the San Francisco 49ers in overtime.