Devoted mom and Dreamgirls Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson turned to Instagram on Friday to show off a one-of-a-kind necklace highlighted by the first baby tooth of her son David. The tiny white tooth dangles from a simple gold heart on a fine chain. “I like making things my own. I call it jenniferizing! Thank u guys,” wrote the 34-year-old singer …

Three short films focusing on the mystical properties of rubies were premiered last Wednesday at the Hotel Café Royal in London.  Called “Ruby Inspired Stories,” the 60-second vignettes feature an international cast that includes actresses Kamay Lau, Sophie Cookson and Aditi Rao Hydari, as well as model Grace Guozhi. The videos were produced by Gemfields, a leading supplier of colored gemstones. The company maintains a core belief that …

The 7.45-carat diamond engagement ring that presidential candidate Donald Trump gave to second wife Marla Maples in 1991 is heading to the auction block in New York. After their divorce in 1999, Maples sold the ring at auction for $110,000. On Wednesday, the same ring is expected to fetch $300,000 to $350,000. The platinum ring by Harry Winston features an …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you hot, new songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In today’s installment, Meghan Trainor shows off her gold-and-diamond “MTRAIN” necklace in the viral video for her new hit single, “Me Too.” In this song about self-love, body image and empowerment, Trainor sings, “What’s that icy thing hangin’ …

The Private Collection of Joan Rivers, an eclectic assortment of fine jewelry, bejeweled items and collectibles, netted $2.2 million at Christie’s New York last night. The biggest surprise of the auction was the $245,000 selling price of a gem-embellished Fabergé frame that carried a modest pre-sale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. Crafted in nephrite (a form of jade) and adorned …

An eagle-eyed trainee barely five months into his apprenticeship at Lucara’s Karowe mine in Botswana is credited with plucking the 1,109-carat gem-quality diamond— now known as the Lesedi La Rona — from the mining company’s “large diamond recovery” sorting machine. It was the largest rough diamond discovered in 111 years. “At first I wanted to scream,” Tiroyaone Mathaba told The …

City worker Jose Cervantes called it a “one in a million shot,” but the thin odds of finding an engagement ring in a sewer system six weeks after it was lost didn’t dissuade him from helping a family in need. Anna and Ryan Cornish, of Bothell, Wash., had been heartbroken over the loss of Anna’s double-halo-style diamond engagement ring — …

Three amateur treasure hunters, who call themselves “Team Rainbow Power,” unearthed the largest trove of Viking gold ever found in Denmark. Working with metal detectors in a field in Jutland, the team discovered seven bangles — six gold and one silver — dating back to the year 900. The combined weight of the jewelry, nearly all of which remained in …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we feature the hauntingly beautiful harmonies of Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris in their 1999 duet “All I Left Behind.” A song about a woman who unselfishly puts her life on hold to go on the road with her …

To the ancient Egyptians, gold was divine. The gods, they believed, had skin of gold, bones of silver and hair of lapis lazuli. The Turin Papyrus Map, which dates to 1160 BC, affirms the location of 1,300 gold mines, at least 100 of which have been rediscovered and explored in the desert valleys east of the Nile. Today, armed with clues from the …