Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: the song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend made jeweller Harry Winston famous. Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis The Swiss company said it would pay up to $1 billion for the Harry Winston brand and its jewelry and watches business, which includes 535 employees and a production company in Geneva. Memorialized in song by Marilyn Monroe in the film “Gentlemen prefer Blondes,” Harry Winston (HWD)became the first jeweler to lend jewels to an actress for […]

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