So, last night Beyoncé wore a custom-made Talalay latex dress decked out in pearls that were allegedly $8,000 each, making "snatching her pearls" a genuinely lucrative activity (in that it could actually eliminate your student debt). But were the pearls really $8,000?
The Internet ran with that number...
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... and there was also a more modest $6,000 estimate flying around.
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Except, either one seems so insane? You know, how much could a pearl cost?
There are some super expensive pearls out there, like the 14-pound pearl of Lao Tzu, which is worth around $3.5 million or the "big pink pearl," priced at $4.7 million in the early '90s, so maybe these are all rare pearls which once belonged to some ancient princess or something.
We've reached out to Givenchy for comment and will be clutching our own set of worthless, rhetorical pearls until they respond.
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