Diamonds are Forever

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Daily Candy's new correspondent SuChin Pak went on a field trip to Christie's to view Elizabeth Taylor's infamous jewelry collection, which included a diamond-and-emerald monkey necklace that Michael Jackson gifted the late starlet. The blinged-out piece is said to have sold for a whopping $260,000 at the auction house's record-breaking event last night. [DailyCandy]