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What? No pearl picture?
Cobb's heirs sold it in 1980 for $200,000 to Beverly Hills jeweler Peter Hoffman, who in turn sold part ownership to Barbish.
The two men formed the now-defunct World's Largest Pearl Co. Inc. in California and raised money by selling interests in the pearl to investors including Joe Bonicelli.
This is where the history turns bloody.
The pearl is now part of the largest wrongful-death judgment in Colorado history after a jury recently awarded $32.4 million to Bonicelli's adult children, who sued over the 1975 death of their mother in a contract killing.
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This doesn't track.
If Bonicelli didn't get involved until 1980, how could the owners be involved in a contract killing of his mother in 1975??
Kinda makes one say Huh?
Do clams live to be "several hundred years"?
2500 years ago....1100 years before Muhammad started that Allah stuff. Interesting
A 14 lb pearl that looks like a human brain? Charming.
And that thing's supposed to be worth $60 million? It's not like you could wear it, or would want to.:)
Why go through all that work and then stick the thing back into a buncha other bivalves...without killing them...for "generations"? And don't oysters make better pearls anyhow?
The clinton Library receives its first side show artifact. Can the dog faced boy be far behind?
I read a short story some time ago about how a pearl brought nothing but bad luck. The person who found it ended up tossing it back in the ocean.
That is one ugly pearl.
I knew Lao-Tzu had to be mixed up with this somehow.
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There is much more to this saga. My client, Delfino Ortega, was framed for both these wife-killings on the testimony of Tom Phillips. Physical evidence proves Tom Phillips lied in 1974 and again at Ortega's trial in 2001. The frame-up was engineered in 2001 by the famous detective Lou Smit; who failed in '75 to solve the killing of Mrs. Bonicelli. The frame-up was about greed and the desire of the Bonicelli children to establish guilt in a criminal court in order to go after the big pearl in a civil court (obviously, it worked). Tom Phillips testivied his wife was shot while sitting in the front set of his car, one bullet passing through her skill, leaving an exit wound the size of a golf ball; but leaving NO outshoot of blood, hair, brain and bone on the interior of the car. Photos also prove the shooting did not happen where Phillips said, as one bullet passed through the windshiled, leaving NO glass fragments on the pavement. I know this because I am Mr. Ortega's defense investigator. At trial, I was tricked into perjury by the District Attorney, Dave Gilbert (now a Judge). In his attempt to rehabilitate Phillips, he asked if I had seen a news article which supported Phillips' story. I testified I had not seen the article and only subsequently learned that no such article existed. I gave a truthful answer to a question that was a lie. Mr. Ortega is my friend as well as my client. We first met in 1976 shortly after this series of homicides. He took me into his heart, his home and the home of his parents; hardly something one would expect from a man with murders on his conscience because, at the time, I was a special investigator for a Colorado Grand Jury. One of the reasons none of this known is the fact that the only real news source in Colorado Springs (The Gazette) is historically in the pocket of the Distrit Attorney's office.