Of all the things that annoy me about celebrities, the swag has got to be the worst. You’re taking some of the richest, most spoiled people around, and giving them lavish, luxurious items for free. And probably charging the rest of us more for your product as a result. That’s right, I’m talking to you, Pascal Mouawad. Not that I buy a lot of your jewelry – even the stuff made for run-of-the-mill folk like myself – but I’m certainly not going to start.
Mouawad, a Swiss-born fourth-generation heir of the Mouawad Group and the House of Mouawad, specializes in fancy diamonds and spoiling the likes of Paris Hilton with a stay in his Lebanon hotel, and a $500,000 diamond necklace as a thank you present.
Although she didn’t celebrate her Independence Day stateside, Paris Hilton still managed to sparkle–in some seriously valuable diamonds.
The blonde bunked over Fourth of July weekend with jeweler Pascal Mouawad in Lebanon, where the pair stayed in the Royal Suite of the Grand Hills Hotel & Spa–the Guinness World Record holder for largest hotel suite, clocking at 4,131 square meters.
Nice digs wasn’t all the heiress got–she walked with over $500,000 worth of diamonds for free–check out the unbelievably large round diamond dangling from Hilton’s silver link chain!
“I was very happy to host Paris at my family’s hotel in Lebanon during her visit there,” Mouawad tells us.
“I love seeing her decked in diamonds. She is very sophisticated and a true fashionista!”
It doesn’t matter that she’s now a single lady, as she’s got one big new best friend.
[From Radar]
I can’t help but wonder – thanks to Radar’s vague phrasing – in what context Paris was being “hosted.” At first I thought it was just your run of the mill rich person bringing someone famous and (ostensibly) beautiful to hang with. But then Radar refers to “the pair” staying in his suite. Certainly there’s more than one bed, it’s more “the pair” that makes me wonder. And $500,000… for Paris Hilton? Along with the complement that she’s anything other than trash?
Mouawad’s got other Paris connections as well – the House of Mouawad is the same company that’s putting out the Nicole Richie-designed House of Harlow 1960 jewelry line. However Mouawad’s generosity to Paris isn’t the only time he’s given jewelry away. Each year House of Mouawad gives the Playmate of the year a Playboy Bunny diamond encrusted necklace… worth over $5000. That’s right, Paris is actually worth 100 times the Playmate of the Year. Boggles the mind.
Paris Hilton is shown at a press conference for ‘Paris Hilton’s My New BFF Dubai’ on 6/17/09. Credit: WENN.com.
What it is “worth”, the retail value is nowhere what it costs to produce, which is a fraction of the retail price. Probably a blood diamond anyway.
Courtesans have been around since the earliest civilizations. That’s clearly what she is to him, based on this report. I don’t consider the necklace swag. I consider it payment for services rendered.
“sophisticated”?
Paris?!
because being a spoiled, entitled, bigoted, STD-riddled whore is sophisticated…I must have missed that.
I’m with Raven. Though i think half a mil is waaay too much for Wonky-eye there no matter what she did.
I can’t stand her and never will be on her side of anything EVEN if she’s right…BUT, you gotta hand it to the girl, she sure knows how to get some serious swag from her generous friends…
I’m sure her knees and throat are sore and that she earned her bauble…
She’s totally his whore, or he wants her to be. She’s stripped for cash from wealthy men before and it wouldn’t surprise me if she’s done more than strip. Trashy skank.
If their brand wants to be associated with the closest thing to a trashy prostitute- then it’s their choice.
Perhaps many of their customers are trashy gold diggers who identify with famous prostitutes and see Paris Hilton as their role model?
Well, if she’s hooking she must be good at it. A lot of women have done it for a lot less.
Diamonds are so overrated.
It costs diamond wholesalers PENNIES TO THE DOLLAR to produce a single diamond for retail sale. The laborers working in the mines and craftsmen who cut the diamonds get nowhere near 1% of the retail price “pie” that a diamond sells for.
(Personally I believe in buying secondhand/heirloom diamonds from estate sales.)
UGH… and I can’t believe Paris Hilton’s show is still running strong into its next season! I’ve never seen it, but heck, it must be good… or she must be doing something so that network execs refrain from canceling it.
Bill said:
“I’m sure her knees and throat are sore and that she earned her bauble…”
Sorry to disappoint you Bill (or maybe it was Mauawod who was disappointed), regardless, Paris was recently on Kathy Griffin’s Dlist reality show and told Kathy, “I don’t do thaaaat!” She claims her mother told her that only “ugly” girls get on their knees.
As the grandchild of a respected Philadelphia jeweler I can totally verify that the market price (and especially the appraised value) of most diamonds far, far, far exceeds any real value of the gem. At most the piece is worth 1/10th of the stated “price”, and probably even less. Nevertheless, I hate the fact that rich starlets are given valuable items that could otherwise be donated to charities for auction. If Paris has any morals at all she will find a good charity and gift this gem to them.
UGH! I bet her dog looks great in it!
Wow this Mouawad guy must be really desperate. Even reality TV guys can get Paris to put out for a cocktail and a line.
I hardly think Paris needs his gifts from this man! She has the money to buy her own without getting on her “knees”.
Paris Hilton always promotes her own and her friends’ lines bigtime.That’s what business and enterprise is all about.
The Hiltons and the Mouawads are business families and all businesses advertise to the max. They’d be stupid not to.
The Mouawad brothers are opening a new store on Melrose, their jewelry is fabulous.
Pascal Mouawad is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
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