Luxury hotel finds woman's missing $1 million diamond ring in vacuum cleaner bag
Lost a very expensive diamond ring? Try checking the vacuum cleaner. That's what employees of Paris' luxury Ritz hotel did — and got lucky.
Le Parisien newspaper reported on Sunday that a Malaysian guest of the world famous hotel filed a police complaint on Friday alleging that her diamond ring vanished from her room while she went window shopping in the city for a few hours.
The newspaper said the ring was worth an estimated 750,000 euros ($1.2 million).
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A lost $1.2 million diamond ring was found in a vacuum cleaner bag at the famous Ritz hotel in Paris. The Ritz, Paris auctions its luxury pieces
The Ritz Paris wouldn't release details about the ring or the client but said the ring had been found on Sunday.
"Thanks to meticulous searches by security agents at the Ritz Paris, the ring was found this morning in a vacuum cleaner bag," the hotel said in a statement.
"Our client is happy at the news."
In 2018, armed thieves entered the Ritz hotel and stole valuable jewels and other goods worth about $7 million from a hotel boutique.
The 19th-century hotel, which reopened in 2016 after an extensive four-year renovation, has housed such famous names as Ernest Hemingway and Coco Chanel.
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