The N30m ($150,000) pearl-studded gown worn by African actress, Lupita Nyong’o, to the 87th Oscar award on Sunday, which was reported stolen, has now been found.
According to BBC, the stunning custom-made Calvin Klein collection by Francisco Costa dress, which was stolen from her hotel room, was found by Los Angeles Police in a bathroom of the same Hollywood hotel where it was taken on Wednesday.
Police were tipped off by American gossip site TMZ, who said they were contacted by a man claiming to be the thief.
The thief who has not been identified or arrested said he had returned the dress after learning the pearls studding the dress were fake.
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Michael White of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said he believed it was the original cloth, though the department is still working with the owners to confirm it.
“Whether the jewels on the dress are fake or real…we still have a burglary and we still have a grand theft,” he said.
The Kenya superstar made the headlines on Sunday night as her glamorous gown hit the Oscars red carpet as one of the best for the night.
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Los Angeles Times was wowed by the dress, which was encrusted with 6,000 white Akoya pearls, that it had to query “How can you not be impressed by the workmanship on this pearl-palooza?”
The 31-year-old Kenyan won best supporting actress in 2014 at the 86th Oscar, for her role in Twelve Years a Slave, a biographic movie written by Solomon Northup.
According to Nyong’o, the dress was an homage to Prince, an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
“I’m just wearing my diamonds and pearls. My homage to (musician) Prince,” she said to Associated Press.
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“We talked about it being fluid and liquid. I wanted it to be an homage to the sea”.
People magazine named her the most beautiful person of 2014.
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