Kim Kardashian splashes out on Princess Diana’s Attallah Cross: she bid nearly US$200,000 on auction for the amethyst and diamond royal jewellery piece – after donning Marilyn Monroe’s dress last year

• Kim Kardashian was the highest bidder for British luxury jeweller Garrard’s Attallah Cross, an amethyst pendant once worn by Princess Diana – paying US$197,500 for the necklace
• The Sotheby’s auction also included King Farouk of Egypt and Sudan’s silver spoons; Kardashian also once borrowed Marilyn Monroe’s nude dress from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! to wear at the Met Gala