"$9,391,182. To date the film has sold 1,579,116 copies—$23,216,770 of consumer spending. Christophe Beck is credited with the film score which was released as the soundtrack album ""The Pink Panther"" about one month following the release of the film. R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles, who co-stars as Xania, performed two songs for the film, ""A Woman Like Me"" and #1 hit, ""Check on It"". The latter serves as the film's theme song aside from the Pink Panther theme. Numerous other songs were used in small parts, but only Beck's original score was included on the soundtrack album. The sequel to this"
"Panther"", the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a leaping panther. Twenty years later, Dala (now played by Claudia Cardinale) has been forced into exile following her father's death and the subsequent military takeover of her country. The new government declares her precious diamond the property of the people and petitions the World Court to determine ownership. However, Dala refuses to relinquish it. Dala goes on holiday at an exclusive ski resort in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Also staying there is English playboy Sir"
"The thieves hid the diamond in a jar of face cream, mimicking an act seen in the film ""The Return of the Pink Panther"". In May 2005, Graff, a diamond specialist in London, was targeted by Pink Panthers and lost a total of £1 million in jewellery. Three men were suspected of being behind the theft; one was in possession of a firearm. Graff had been targeted in 2002 and lost £23 million on that occasion, £3 million of which was recovered two years later. One of the thieves was sentenced to fifteen years in prison in July 2004. In"
"Christie. In his earliest appearances, Clouseau is slightly less inept and exaggerated; but in his first appearance he believes himself a skilled violinist, but plays out of tune, and often appears clumsy at his moments of highest dignity. Jacques Clouseau makes his first appearance as the Inspector in the 1963 film ""The Pink Panther"", which was released in the United States in March 1964. In this movie, the main focus was on David Niven's role as Sir Charles Lytton, the infamous jewel thief nicknamed ""the Phantom"", and his plan to steal the Pink Panther diamond; while the Clouseau character plays"
"Lugash Lugash is a fictional country mentioned and featured in the ""Pink Panther"" movie series. Its ruler is known as the Shah. Its greatest national treasure, which comes from the dynasty of Akbar the Magnificent in the early 12th century, and the country's religious symbol for over 1,000 years, is the Pink Panther diamond, which has been stolen on numerous occasions. The former ruling family of Lugash is the Kurfilli; Princess Dala was the last of the dynasty. The palace decor and costumes shown in the original 1963 film were distinctly North Indian in style, however the sign next to"
"Milan Poparić Milan Poparić (born 1978/1979) is a Bosnian Serb criminal, primarily a jewel thief. He is known for a dramatic escape from prison in July 2013. He has been identified by police as a member of a gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers. Poparić is a known member and suspected leader of the international gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers, who were given that name after hiding a diamond in face cream, similar to a theft portrayed in the movie ""The Return of the Pink Panther"". The Pink Panthers have been said to have stolen"
"This diamond was first shown in 2003 in Monaco. Eight jewelers took 20 months to create this internally flawless diamond, making over 50 models before cutting the real diamond. The Graff Pink is a 24.78-carat (4.96 g) Fancy Intense Pink diamond--and the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction--previously owned by Harry Winston and an unnamed private collector and bought by Laurence Graff (November 2010). With new techniques in creating laboratory diamonds, it is increasingly likely that pink diamonds will become available to the public at an affordable price. Pink Panther jewel The Pink Panther is a fictional diamond with"
"thieves in the group, and that many come from Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. However, other sources say the gang is suspected of having at least sixty members, around thirty of whom are thought to be from Montenegro. Several gang members are former soldiers with violent pasts. A great amount are fluent in many different languages and possess passports which have been given to others. In 2003, the gang first came to attention and earned the nickname ""Pink Panthers"" following the theft of a £500,000 diamond from a jewellers in the Mayfair area of central London in the United Kingdom."
"at Sotheby's where it was bought by Ronald Winston of the House of Harry Winston for the price of $1.3 million. It is currently estimated to be valued at $3 million. Formerly referred to simply as the 5.54 Vivid Orange, Winston named the diamond ""The Pumpkin Diamond"" as he bought it the day before Halloween. After buying the Pumpkin, Winston proceeded to have the diamond set in a ring between two smaller white diamonds. Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in ""Monster's Ball"". While it"
"Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]"" and ""[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]"". Bobin said that the film was ""a tip of the hat to the old-school crime capers of the '60s, but featuring a frog, a pig, a bear, and a dog—no panthers, even pink ones—along with the usual Muppet-y mix of mayhem, music and laughs"". The first actor to be attached to the film was [[Christoph Waltz]] in the role of an Interpol inspector. Waltz dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by [[Ty Burrell]]. In December 2012, [[Ricky Gervais]] confirmed his casting. [[Tina"
"found on the secondary market, although likely in used condition. There are many other unofficial inspired reproductions available on the secondary market ranging from as little as five dollars to thousands of dollars. Heart of the Ocean The Heart of the Ocean is the name of a fictional blue diamond featured prominently in the 1997 film ""Titanic"". In the story, the 56 carat diamond was originally owned by Louis XVI and cut into a heart shape after the French Revolution. In the film the necklace was purchased by Pittsburgh steel tycoon Caledon Hockley, played by Billy Zane, a week before"
"Pink Panther diamond after it is stolen by the Phantom, Sir Charles Lytton. The roles of Sir Charles and Lady Lytton are recast, now played by Christopher Plummer and Catherine Schell (with Schell actually playing a different Lady Lytton than Capucine's Simone). ""The Pink Panther Strikes Again"" continues the story from the end of ""The Return of the Pink Panther"", featuring the now insane Dreyfus creating a crime syndicate and constructing a doomsday weapon with the intention of using it to blackmail the world to kill Clouseau. Unused footage from this film was used to include Sellers in ""Trail of"
"bankruptcy. As of 2010, the Comtesse has not been recovered, and it is likely that it was broken up and its stones sold separately in the diamond market. Comtesse de Vendome The Comtesse de Vendôme is a diamond necklace composed of 116 diamonds, including a centerpiece 125-carat diamond, and an estimated value of approximately 31 million dollars (in 2004). The necklace was stolen from the Tokyo jewelry boutique Le Supre-Diamant Couture de Maki on March 5, 2004 by thieves who are believed to belong to the Pink Panthers crime ring. The Japanese police launched a massive investigation in the wake"
"Comtesse de Vendome The Comtesse de Vendôme is a diamond necklace composed of 116 diamonds, including a centerpiece 125-carat diamond, and an estimated value of approximately 31 million dollars (in 2004). The necklace was stolen from the Tokyo jewelry boutique Le Supre-Diamant Couture de Maki on March 5, 2004 by thieves who are believed to belong to the Pink Panthers crime ring. The Japanese police launched a massive investigation in the wake of the heist, which has been called ""the greatest robbery in the history of Japan"". According to their theories, the crime was perpetrated by four individuals: Serbians named"
"founder Dr. John Williamson presented Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) with a flawless pink diamond (the Williamson Pink Diamond) on her wedding day. The eventual cut diamond became the centre stone in the Williamson Diamond brooch and is supposedly the basis for the Pink Panther diamond in the film of the same name. The Williamson Mine currently has a resource of 39.6 million carats (8,000 kg) (984 million tonnes of kimberlite). It has an average mining depth of 65 metres (90m at the deepest point) and a very low stripping ratio. Energy and Minerals Minister William Ngeleja said Petra's entry"
"New Guinea. His remains were recovered and 1st Lt. Charles C. Lanphier, USMC was interred at Arlington National Cemetery, April 5, 1949. Lanphier had a third son who was an actor, James Francis Lanphier born in New York in 1920 and died in California, 1969. He was perhaps best known for his role in The Pink Panther (1963 film). Thomas George Lanphier Sr. Thomas George Lanphier Sr. (April 16, 1890 October 9, 1972) was a retired Colonel in the United States Army Air Corps, and was Commanding Officer of Selfridge Field in Michigan from late 1924 to early 1926 and"
"""Blood Diamond"", surrounded by the depictions of conflict diamonds mined and sold to fund civil wars and diamond companies. The popularity of pink diamonds rose in November 2013, when the 59.6-carat Pink Star diamond was bid on at auction in Geneva for $83 million by New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf, then renamed the Pink Dream. Wolf ultimately defaulted, creating a scandal in the fancy color diamond world, forcing auctioneer Sotheby's to pay the owners the promised sum. On 3 April 2017, Southeby's again auctioned the Pink Star, in Hong Kong, which sold to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises for a"
"days later and received three-year sentences. The uninsured Star of India was recovered in a foot locker at a Miami bus station. Most of the other gems were also recovered, except the Eagle Diamond, which has since been hypothesized to have been cut down into smaller stones. Richard Duncan Pearson was also convicted. The heist was the subject of the film ""Murph the Surf"" (1975), directed by Marvin Chomsky, and starring Robert Conrad, Burt Young, and Don Stroud (as Murphy). In 1967, in Broward County, Florida, the weighted-down bodies of Terry Rae Frank and Annelle Marie Mohn were found in"
"Graff Pink The Graff Pink, a rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, once owned by American celebrity jeweller Harry Winston, has been described as ""one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered"". The diamond, mounted in a ring, was sold by Sotheby's auctioneers in Geneva, Switzerland on 16 November 2010. Before its sale, the stone was expected to enter the list of the top ten most expensive diamonds in the world; on selling for US $46 million (£29 million) it became the most expensive single jewel ever sold at auction at that time. The gem is classified by the Gemological Institute of"
"Pink Legacy The Pink Legacy is a pink diamond that was purchased by Harry Winston, Inc. in 2018. It was renamed Winston Pink Legacy by CEO Nayla Hayek. The diamond was sold at a Christie's auction for 50.375 million Swiss francs ($50m; £38.5m), and at $2.6 million per carat it set a world record at the time of its sale for a pink diamond. Pink Legacy was mined in South Africa around 1918 and was once owned by the Oppenheimer family, who ran De Beers. It has a cut-cornered rectangular cut, and has likely not been altered since it was"
"Princie Diamond The Princie Diamond is an approximately 34.65 carat cushion-cut fancy intense pink diamond discovered 300 years ago in the Golconda mines. Christie's (who auctioned it on 16 April 2013, when it fetched a price of 39.3 million dollars) say that the Princie Diamond is believed to be the third largest pink diamond in the world after the Daria-i-Noor (c. 175 to 195 carats) the Noor-ol-Ain (c. 60 carats) which are both part of the Iranian Crown Jewels but which were both cut, according to experts, from one single c. 242 carat pink diamond, and the Pink Star (formerly"
"include Japan's most successful robbery ever among their thefts. Interpol believes that the YACS Crime Group that evolved into The PINK PANTHERS are responsible for US$130 million in bold robberies in Dubai, Switzerland, Japan, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Monaco. Pink Panthers are believed to be responsible for the robbery of the jewellery store Harry Winston in Paris, on 9 December 2008. The thieves escaped with more than €80 million worth of jewellery. The total worth of jewellery that has been stolen by the Pink Panthers was 250 million € in May, 2010. The first Serbian mafiosi came to Australia"
"Heart of the Ocean The Heart of the Ocean is the name of a fictional blue diamond featured prominently in the 1997 film ""Titanic"". In the story, the 56 carat diamond was originally owned by Louis XVI and cut into a heart shape after the French Revolution. In the film the necklace was purchased by Pittsburgh steel tycoon Caledon Hockley, played by Billy Zane, a week before he sailed on the ill-fated ocean liner "" RMS Titanic"". The necklace was meant to be given as an engagement present to his fiancée Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet and Gloria"
"was CHF 68,000,000 (CHF 76,325,000, USD 83,187,381 including commission fees), a world record for any gemstone. Prior to the sale, the record had been held by the Graff Pink. The Pink Star was bought by New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf who renamed it The Pink Dream although, according to Forbes magazine, the auction price was not settled by the buyer and the stone was again added to the Sotheby's inventory. On 3 April 2017, the Pink Star was sold at an auction in Hong Kong for US$71.2 million to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises. Pink Star (diamond) The Pink Star,"
"The Pink Jungle The Pink Jungle is a 1968 Technicolor adventure comedy film directed by Delbert Mann starring James Garner, Eva Renzi, George Kennedy and Nigel Green. An American fashion photographer, Ben Morris (James Garner), goes to Guadagil, a remote village in South America, to take pictures of model Alison Duquesne (Eva Renzi) for a lipstick ad. One of the lipsticks is called ""Pink Jungle"". She arrives soon after Ben does, escorted by Raul Ortega (Michael Ansara) from the tourist board. Within minutes of being landed the helicopter in which they arrived is stolen, leaving Ben and Alison stranded in"
"estimate for the diamond was US $27 million to US $38 million (£17 million to £24 million). The diamond was shown around the world prior to the auction in Geneva. It sold for US $46 million (£29 million), making it the most expensive single jewel ever sold at auction at the time. It was bought by diamond dealer Laurence Graff, of Graff Diamonds, who named it Graff Pink. Graff Pink The Graff Pink, a rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, once owned by American celebrity jeweller Harry Winston, has been described as ""one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered"". The diamond,"
"first cut in 1920. It is mounted in a platinum ring. Pink Legacy The Pink Legacy is a pink diamond that was purchased by Harry Winston, Inc. in 2018. It was renamed Winston Pink Legacy by CEO Nayla Hayek. The diamond was sold at a Christie's auction for 50.375 million Swiss francs ($50m; £38.5m), and at $2.6 million per carat it set a world record at the time of its sale for a pink diamond. Pink Legacy was mined in South Africa around 1918 and was once owned by the Oppenheimer family, who ran De Beers. It has a cut-cornered"
"Regent Diamond The Regent Diamond is a diamond owned by the French state and on display in the Louvre, worth £48,000,000. It is widely considered the most beautiful and the purest diamond in the world. According to one rumour, in 1698, a slave found the uncut diamond in the Kollur Mine (in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India) and hid it inside a large wound in his leg. An English sea captain stole the diamond from the slave, killed him and sold it to an Indian merchant. In a letter to his London agent dated 6November 1701, Thomas Pitt,"
"The Diamond (film) The Diamond (released in the US as The Diamond Wizard) is a 1954 British film noir crime film starring Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Sheridan and Philip Friend. It has the distinction of being Britain's first 3D film, though according to the British Film Institute (BFI), it was shown in 3D only once, on 13 September 2006 in Hollywood. Despite the 2006 showing the film was listed on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. It was shot at Walton Studios with location filming taking place around London. The film's sets were designed by the art director"
"fact, stolen the diamond from a servant of Abul Hasan Qutb Shah. According to another version, the servant found the diamond in one of the Golkonda mines on the Krishna River and had concealed it inside a large wound in his leg, which he had suffered as he fled the Siege of Golconda. Pitt bought the diamond for 48,000 pagodas or £20,400, and sent it back to England in 1702 concealed inside his eldest son Robert's shoe. For two years from 1704–1706, the jeweller Harris laboured in London to hew a 141 carat (28.2 g) cushion brilliant from the rough"
"by two men from the Pink Panthers international jewel thief network who stole 47 pieces of jewellery worth £23 million. In 2005, three armed robbers stole jewellery valued at £2 million from the Sloane Street premises. In 2007, two robbers, who arrived at the Sloane Street premises in a chauffeur-driven Bentley Continental Flying Spur threatened staff at gunpoint and stole jewellery worth £10 million. In the same year, the Graff premises in Wafi City, Dubai was targeted by the Pink Panthers again, using two Audi A8 cars to carry out a ram raid. Jewellery worth AED14.7 million (£2.4 million) was"
"Star of India ""has a more or less indefinite historic record of some three centuries"". On October 29, 1964, the famous golf-ball-sized stone was stolen, along with several other gems of note, including the Midnight Star, the DeLong Star Ruby, and the Eagle Diamond. The thieves unlocked a bathroom window during museum open hours, climbed in that night, and found that the sapphire was the only gem in the collection protected by an alarm—and the battery for that was dead. The stones stolen were valued at more than $400,000. Within two days the culprits were arrested: Jack Murphy (also known"
"Harvey complained that Feldman cut his part to build Capucine's role. She was then William Holden's love interest in ""The Lion"" (1962). Feldman announced he would put Capucine in ""Mary Magdelene"" and ""Waltz of the Toreadors"" but neither happened. She moved to Switzerland in 1962. She had a cameo ""Beach Casanova"" (1962) in Italy. Blake Edwards cast Capucine in ""The Pink Panther"" playing the wife of Inspector Clouseau who is having an affair with a jewel thief played by David Niven. It was a huge hit and led to a number of sequels. Capucine was reunited with Holden in ""The"