I assumed Jennifer Lopez isn’t the type of superstar—I’m considering of you Adele—who will get engaged with out telling the world the information. Nicely, final evening J.Lo teased the announcement on her Instagram and made it official by way of her e-newsletter onthejlo.com.
The ring is one thing actually particular. When the information broke on Friday evening, there have been solely blurry pictures grabbed on her e-newsletter and the Instagram tales of J.Lo’s sister, Lynda Lopez. The photographs confirmed it was a inexperienced diamond flanked by two white diamond aspect stones.
Jennifer Lopez’s inexperienced diamond engagement ring from Ben Affleck Photograph through Instagram tales @lyndalopez08
Late Saturday afternoon, extra information concerning the engagement ring was launched. The pure inexperienced diamond heart stone is an 8.5-carat cushion modified brilliant-cut. It was sourced by Ilan Portugali of Beverly Hills Diamonds. The gem is about in a platinum ring that includes a customized formed pair of trapezoid step minimize diamonds. Gold prongs maintain the inexperienced diamond.
Late Tuesday night, J.Lo launched a second e-newsletter concerning the ring with a grid of pictures under. She defined:
Saturday evening whereas at my favourite place on earth (within the bubble bathtub), my stunning love acquired on one knee and proposed. I used to be taken completely off guard and simply appeared in his eyes smiling and crying on the similar time making an attempt onerous to get my head round the truth that after 20 years this was occurring once more, I used to be fairly actually speechless and he stated, “is {that a} sure?’” I stated YES after all that’s a YES.
I used to be smiling so massive and tears have been coming down my face, feeling so extremely joyful and complete. It was nothing fancy in any respect, nevertheless it was essentially the most romantic factor I might’ve ever imagined…only a quiet Saturday evening at house, two folks promising to all the time be there for one another. Two very fortunate folks. Who acquired a second likelihood at real love.
Inexperienced has all the time been my fortunate shade and now, for certain, it all the time can be.
Jennifer Lopez displaying her inexperienced diamond engagement ring from Ben Affleck. Photograph through the e-newsletter OntheJLo
Whereas pink, yellow and lightweight brown diamonds have all been chosen by celebrities for engagement rings, that is the primary time a celeb has ever obtained a inexperienced diamond which falls into the very uncommon class.
It actually attracts parallels to the pink diamond engagement ring Ben gave Jen in 2002. On the time the general public at giant wasn’t typically conscious of the truth that there was such a factor as pink diamonds. The couple’s ring actually modified that in a single day. The impression was big.
In 2003, Ben Affleck attended a film premiere with Jennifer Lopez who’s carrying her pink diamond engagement ring. Photograph Getty
There’s, nevertheless, an enormous distinction between the pink diamond and this new inexperienced diamond. On the time Ben gave Jen the pink diamond, the flamboyant shade was being mined as steadily because it ever had been in historical past by way of the Argyle mines in Australia. Whereas the stone was nonetheless uncommon it did have some visibility.
Inexperienced diamonds are a wholly completely different story. You know the way as soon as a celeb is engaged the information is adopted by a raft of articles on how one can get the look? That’s not going to occur with this ring as a result of inexperienced diamonds are actually uncommon. They usually are available many alternative shades of inexperienced. The largest inexperienced diamond I’ve seen not too long ago was a mossy inexperienced 10-carat coronary heart form diamond ring within the assortment of Nadine Ghosn.
The 41-carat Dresden Inexperienced diamond set in a diamond hat decoration. Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Photograph through the Met
Traditionally essentially the most well-known inexperienced diamond is the 41-carat Dresden Inexperienced diamond that got here from the Golconda mine in India. The apple inexperienced gem was mounted in an elaborate white diamond hat decoration in 1768.
The Dresden Inexperienced made headline information in November 2019, as a result of it wasn’t stolen. The jewel was on mortgage to the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York when a number of essential jewels have been taken by brazen thieves from the Dresden Inexperienced Vault in Saxony the place it’s usually housed.
A Fancy Intense Inexperienced Yellow Diamond and Diamond Ring offered at Sotheby’s with an analogous shade to the gem in J.Lo’s engagement ring. Photograph through Sotheby’s
In the hunt for a inexperienced diamond in the identical shade palette as J.Lo’s jewel I appeared on the massive public sale home web sites and solely got here up with one offered at Sotheby’s that feels considerably related. The stone within the image above is described as a “a flowery intense green-yellow diamond.” It’s a bit extra yellow than J.Lo’s inexperienced diamond.
When it comes to document sale costs for inexperienced diamonds at Sotheby’s, it’s onerous to check due to the completely different grades of inexperienced. A 2.52 carat fancy vivid inexperienced diamond offered for $3.1 million in Geneva in the course of the November 2009 sale. It was a world public sale document worth per carat for a vivid inexperienced diamond on the time.
Final 12 months, a pear-shaped fancy intense inexperienced diamond weighing 5.29 carats offered for $3 million at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. The value was inclusive of pink diamonds within the setting. The 2 fancy shapes are sometimes paired collectively in jewels. An distinctive 3-carat fancy vivid bluish inexperienced diamond in a pink diamond ring goes to be offered at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on April 29. The estimate can also be round $3 million.
An distinctive 3-carat fancy vivid bluish inexperienced diamond in a pink diamond ring goes to be offered at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on April 29. Photograph through
I did a fast search on Harry Winston the place Ben acquired the well-known pink gem. They’ve zero inexperienced diamonds on the web site.
De Beers Forevermark, the diamond jewellery firm recognized for his or her uncommon coloured gems has no inexperienced diamonds out there, however they do have some data. The web site explains solely “a handful of inexperienced diamonds come to market annually” and goes on so as to add:
A pure inexperienced diamond’s shade doesn’t develop till the top of their journey to the earth’s floor. The colour comes from pure irradiation, often attributable to alpha particles. Absorbing crimson and yellow gentle causes the diamond to replicate a inexperienced hue, nevertheless that is often confined to a really skinny layer on the floor of the unique tough diamond so it’s very uncommon that the inexperienced shade can be current all through the diamond.
Name me romantic, however in some way this description of a diamond gaining its inexperienced shade on the finish of its journey to earth makes the stone really feel good for Ben and Jen who rekindled their love affair after over 20-years aside.
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