As Elizabeth Taylor’s famed 33.19-carat diamond ring goes on show for Christie's auction later this year, here’s a slideshow presenting top celebrities’ diamond rings.
To view some of the multicarat rings worn by celebrities, from The Beatles' Paul McCartney’s wedding ring to reality television's Kim Kardashian's 20-carat engagement ring, click on Start.
Kim Kardashian's wedding ring is pictured as she arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles August 28, 2011.REUTERS/Danny MoloshokDame Elizabeth Taylor, Academy Award winning actress, shows the Krupps Diamond she is wearing to talk show host Larry King as she is interviewed on the CNN program Larry King Live, January 15, 2001 at the CNN studios in Los Angeles (L). The 33.19 carats diamond ring was given to Elizabeth Taylor by her fifth husband Richard Burton and is pictured right at the press preview for Christie's auction of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor featuring her jewelry, haute couture, fashion, and fine arts at MOCA Pacific Desgin Center in Los Angeles October 10, 2011. The diamond is expected to bring $2.5 to $3.5 million at the auction beginning December 13 in New York. REUTERSSinger Paul McCartney slipped on his bride Nancy Shevell’s finger a Neil Lane's wedding band featuring 5 carats of square-cut diamonds set in platinum during their marriage ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London October 9, 2011. Neil Lane/REUTERSSocialite Paris Hilton, shown rocking an expensive engagement ring during an autograph session in 2005, has also had a jewelry scandal of her own. In 2011, Paris Hilton was sued by the jewelry company Damiani, which claimed she had stolen $60,000 worth of jewelry. But in the end an insurance company involved in the suit said Hilton apparently had been telling the truth about not having stolen the jewels, and the suit was dropped.REUTERS/JP MoczulskiBlue Ivy Carter, the newborn baby of musicians Beyonce and Jay-Z, is only a couple of days old, but illuminati, Satanist and Freemasonry conspiracy theories are already being hatched about the young child.REUTERS'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Lisa Vanderpump's engagement ring is pictured as she arrives at the 22nd annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in Los Angeles, California April 10, 2011.REUTERS/Fred ProuserSinger Christina Aguilera displays her engagement ring as she arrives as a guest at the opening of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's Boutique in Beverly Hills February 15, 2005, and as she poses backstage at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills (L).REUTERS
