£50 million quids worth of jewels nicked from Tamara Ecclestone

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My first and only thought is "I hope the security staff patrolling her compound are fine"

She probably didn't wear it all, jewellery is an investment.

I have a friend with a 4.75 carat solitaire diamond engagement ring. She is quite tight with her money, as is her DH. I asked her about it one day as I was curious and she advised me that diamonds are the safest bet for investing your money. This diamond is one of the best in terms of clarity, etc. and it took them months to find. For her, it's an investment that will only keep increasing in value, rather than property or stocks & shares which are less predictable.

In which case, all the more reason to have it locked away in a bank vault.

True, but we all only have one neck, two wrists and ten fingers. There is a limit to how much jewellery you can actually use.

SebandAlice shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations...the money always gets spent. Or maybe that proverb was talking about smaller sums of wealth.

Being burgled is horrible no matter how wealthy you are. She's at least not going to struggle financially because of it though.

@BadLad mwahahahahahahahaga

It’s funny but I was thinking about this last night.
I can’t get my head around £50m worth of jewellery.
There were watches worth £100k...I’m trying to picture 500 watches in a bag of swag...obviously it wasn’t all watches..but just trying to get some perspective on it.

The other thing was, the £70m mansion had 70 rooms.
Why the heck would you want a house with 70 rooms.
I’m trying to think of all the different types of rooms..I’d struggle to get past 35
No doubt there’s about a dozen bedrooms and a dozen bathrooms. Then Tamara and husband would have a dressing room each, maybe a bag room, shoe room, daughter would have playroom, dressing room, a reception room for visitors, a snug family room, a library, art gallery, a kitchen for staff to cook for guests, a family kitchen, music room, home cinema, gym, rooms for staff to stay overnight..there must be a live in housekeeper, nanny etc

Thing is you can’t live in more than a dozen rooms surely.
And why would you want to
Even her maj only lives in a few rooms in buck house which has about 100 rooms I believe

Yew Twatty
Can you do an AMAplease
I love to hear about how others live.

The other thing was, the £70m mansion had 70 rooms.

I wonder if whoever wrote that is correct. Judging by the number of windows on the house (and some rooms will have more than one window) it seems unlikely.
Happy to be corrected though.

I liked that the DM article on this had another about her ex BIL trying to sell off another forgery 'masterpiece' painting directly below, I wonder are they hinting that this could have been the inside man?

I think it’s an iceberg house and there’s probably quite a bit in the back we can’t see from the on street photos. If you count all the bathrooms, storage rooms and butlers’ pantries you could probably get to 70. Other sources say 53 though.

I’m not a big jewellery person. I have a nice watch and a few nice pieces but literally a handful and that’s it. Chose not to get an engagement ring though we could have afforded a decent one. I don’t envy her 50 mil of jewellery at all.
I’m jealous of the house in the best area (though I’d chose a different one) and other things that huge amounts of money can buy but not the jewellery one bit. If you offered to me a vault of it I could honestly take it or leave it.

Anyway, horrible to be burgled and I feel bad for her. Especially with it being an inside job, you’d never feel safe again.

I do hope Twatty comes back and gives us the low down on how all these big house are organised
I can’t get my head round it at all
I got chatting to a lord of the ( very small stately home) manor and even then that was huge compared to my modest home .
He was fascinating as he served us tea and home made cake made by his mum, as his stories gave us a chink of light into the world of the super rich.
Rich Arabs who came to play golf in the uk. One didn’t literally have any loose notes to tip his caddy, so dropped the keys to his newly purchased just for this trip £25k car into the man’s hand.

Like wow

@kinsters I like that saying
It reminds me of Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworths fortune, one of the richest women in the world who died broke. In today’s terms she inherited $1 billion. I must watch the film Poor Little Rich Girl again.

I think they have a gift wrapping room in the house - that gives you some idea of how different their lives are to most of ours!

Dowser it's honestly not that interesting It's just very, very different! And with more tantrums from adults...

I think it was her sister Petra's house in LA that had the gift wrapping room. It once belonged to Aaron Spelling and his wife.

I watched that programme Tamara and Jay were both on. Thought he came across quite well and she, though nice enough, didn't appear the brightest and like a pp said, quite unsure of herself.

They have about 7 bedrooms but only live in a few of the rooms though.

I can't see how it was anything other than an inside job given the time they were in the property with the alarm deactivated.

It may not be such a physically huge quantity of jewellery either. When you have stones that on their own are worth 7 figures, £50m of jewellery may not actually be that large in terms of physical size or weight. A diamond of the right size, colour, and quality can sell for £10m or more (have a Google for most expensive diamonds sold in 2019).

That £50m could, in theory, "only" be 15 or 20 stones. You could carry them in a pocket.

Most people who buy that sort of jewellery are looking for an investment rather than a trinket. Precious stones and metal hold their value more reliably than the stock market.

How can someone have £50 million worth of jewellery? If someone told me the Queen had £50 million worth of jewellery I’d be surprised but I’m even more surprised that Bernie Eccleston’s daughter has that....I mean I know they’re rich but it’s unbelievable. I wonder if the value has been slightly exaggerated by someone?

Omg, I’ve just googled how much the Queen’s stuff is worth! 😮😮😮

The Crown Jewels are priceless but maybe about £4billion.

I’m not sure....does that mean just the crown in the Tower? So as well as that there’s all the day to day stuff as well? One diamond on its own is worth £400 million apparantly!

I might be wrong but I suspect £50 million is journalistic licence, and the actual value is about £2 million.

I feel sorry for her having her home broken into. Nobody deserves that.

However I disapprove of their carbon footprint. However rich I would not travel by private jet. I find it obscene - the resources they must use.

Also, I don't approve of tax avoidance, especially on Bernies scale.

I think Tamara and her sister will blow their fortune. I suspect Bernies grandchildren will have to adjust to a different lifestyle.

I always wonder what Bernies oldest and I suspect more level headed daughter Deborah must think of her half sisters. Assuming she inherits some of Bernies money, I bet she invests it more wisely.

@GirlRaisedInTheSouth mine is worth £100 if I'm lucky.

No-one has. The PP you are replying to made it up.

Correct. In bad conscience, immoral, obscene, distasteful, shallow. Those are the actual ways it is described. Not sure why that makes it any better than if someone had actually said "disgusting" rather than it being implied by all these descriptions.

True, but we all only have one neck, two wrists and ten fingers. There is a limit to how much jewellery you can actually use.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Or clothes generally? Just the one set?

@Stupiddriver1 easy - have £50m in cash, spend it on jewellery, that's how.

There was one ring sold this year for £16.1m.

In 2018 one ring (look up the Pink Legacy Diamond) sold for £38.5m, and the Bulgari Blue sold for £14.3m.

Obviously I have no idea if Tamara Ecclestone owned any of these rings but if you have the cash you can lay your hands on £50m of jewellery very easily.