Frank Sinatra with Mia Farrow on their wedding ceremony day July 20, 1966. She is sporting her 9-carat pear form diamond engagement ring and bracelet from Ruser. Picture AP
Whereas Frank and Mia could seem to be an odd couple, they have been very a lot in love or you would say completely infatuated with one another after they met in 1964 on a film set. He was 49 and a legend. She was 19 and a rising star. Flash ahead to the Fourth of July weekend in 1966, Frank proposed to Mia with some actual jewellery fireworks, a 9-carat pear form diamond and platinum engagement ring from Ruser.
An area favourite with the Hollywood set at mid-century, Ruser was positioned at 300 Rodeo Drive in the very same constructing the place Van Cleef & Arpels resides right this moment. It was lengthy earlier than the large names in jewellery had branches within the Metropolis of Angels. In these days if a star needed an engagement ring or nice diamond jewellery they headed to Ruser.
Element of Mia Farrow’s 9-carat pear form diamond and platinum engagement ring and bracelet from Ruser. Picture Getty
The beloved proprietor of the institution was a person named William Ruser. Should you speak to anybody of a sure age in Los Angeles, they name him “Billy.” Everybody known as him Billy. The jeweler constructed his relationship with the Hollywood crowd when he managed the Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin department in Los Angeles. In 1947 after coming back from service in World Battle II, he opened his Beverly Hills boutique.
Ruser was recognized for cutesy sculpted gold animal jewels and spectacular diamond jewellery. Elizabeth Taylor had an incredible diamond and pearl ring from Ruser. Main woman Barbara Stanwyck had three Ruser gardenia pendant-brooches that she wore within the thriller Sorry, Fallacious Quantity. Joan Crawford had a diamond choker and lyrical feather brooch from Ruser.
In different phrases, when Sinatra went to Ruser he was heading to a trusted supply that he knew could possibly be discreet concerning the buy. As soon as the information broke concerning the engagement, nonetheless, it made headline information. The New York Put up stated merely, “Sinatra Buys Mia the Ring.” When the couple was married on July 19, 1966 on the Sands Lodge in Las Vegas, Previous Blue eyes gave his younger bride a Ruser bracelet to match her engagement ring. It was a double-row of diamonds.
Mia Farrow with Frank Sinatra on the Black and White ball. Picture Getty
Mia and Frank have been naturally a topic of fascination for the press who adopted them wherever they went. Certainly one of their most excessive profile and iconic appearances collectively was at Truman Capote’s well-known Black and White in November 1966. The press additionally reported on different lavish presents Sinatra gave Mia, comparable to a pastel mink coat from Revillon.
The union, nonetheless, didn’t final lengthy. Mia has stated she was too immature for the connection to outlive. For his half Frank was nonetheless in love together with his earlier spouse, the bombshell, Ava Gardner. Plus, he needed Mia to surrender her careers. She refused and he served her divorce papers on the set of the thriller Rosemary’s Child. Whereas that will sound harsh, and it was, Mia Farrow has stated they remained pals till the singer died in 1998. Oh, and in case you are questioning what occurred to Billy Ruser. He retired and closed his Los Angeles institution in 1969.
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