John Russell tortured himself with guilt before cancer destroyed his body. John Russell was born. John Lawrence Russell on January 3rd, 1921 in Los Angeles, California. He was the first child of John Henry Russell, an insurance company executive and Amy Requa Russell. As the eldest of three children in a stable…
Alex, congratulations. >> Thank you. >> How does it feel to be standing here having just defeated the defending champion on center court? >> There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a tennis court when a dream starts to die in front of 40 million people. And Alex Ela walked…
A year ago, America fell in love with the singing janitor from Terre Haute. Oh, Richard Goodall won, you might remember, America’s Got Talent. A middle school janitor stood in a cafeteria and sang like nobody was watching, except somebody was. And that phone video quietly changed his entire life. Richard…
Marilyn Monroe didn’t just wear diamonds. She made them legendary. Today, we explore her most beautiful and expensive jewelry pieces, gems that defined an era. Number 12, the Mikimoto pearl necklace. In 1954, Joe DiMaggio wanted to give Marilyn Monroe a gift that matched her classic beauty. During their honeymoon in Japan, he…
Greville Emerald Kokoshnik. 93 carats of Colombian emerald set inside a Russian kokoshnik frame inherited from one of the wealthiest women in Edwardian England. Margaret Greville was a socialite, a hostess, and a woman who understood that jewelry was not merely decoration, but power made visible. When she died in 1942, she…
The Plunket Tiara. This is the story of a tiara that appears to have been used in an emergency. In 1973, Elizabeth was attending a gala at the Royal Opera House, marking Britain’s entry into the European economic community. Her own tiara reportedly broke on route, and she is said to have…
On the 13th of September, 1953, the most photographed wedding of the year ran across the front page of the New York Times. The bride was Jacqueline Bouvier. The groom was a young senator from Massachusetts named John Kennedy. And the gown, the gown was the kind of thing newspapers describe inch by…
Elizabeth Taylor had the most famous eyes in Hollywood. Violet. When she passed away in March of 2011, her personal collection went up for auction at Christie’s in New York. The jewelry alone brought in over 137 million dollars, a world record at the time. But underneath those diamonds and emeralds were…
Wimbledon, July 1968. Centre Court. The crowd is on its feet. A dark-haired woman walks out to present the Venus Rosewater Dish to Billie Jean King. She moves with the kind of ease that cannot be learned, only inherited. Diamond earrings catch the summer light. Her posture is flawless. Her smile warm…
Have you ever wondered what America looked like before it became a global power? Before New York’s skyline rose into the clouds and before the Wild West was tamed, life was very different. Not every story was written into the history books. So, let’s turn back the clock and see how America…
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