Christie’s initial sale of roughly 100 rare jewels from the collection of the late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten soared above expectations, netting the auction house $156 million in Geneva ...

Earlier this year, Christie’s sold jewelry from the collection of the Austrian heiress Heidi Horten for a whopping $202 million. The second part of that sale, though, has now been canceled. Christie’s ...

Bowing to months of international pressure, Christie’s said it will not continue the sale of jewels from the estate of Heidi Horten, whose wealth was rooted in Nazi profiteering by her late husband.

(The Hill) – Christie’s announced Friday that it is canceling an upcoming auction of a late Austrian billionaire’s jewels after “intense scrutiny” over ties to Nazi Germany. Heidi Horten’s jewel ...

An employee of Christie's displays the Great Mogul Emerald and Diamond Necklace by Harry Winston, estimated between 450,000 - 640,000 CHF (Swiss Francs), in display case, during the preview of "The ...

The auction of the late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horton’s jewelry collection is expected to break the record set more than a decade ago by the late actress Elizabeth Taylor. In 2011, Taylor’s gems ...

(JTA) A blockbuster jewelry auction at Christie’s is drawing criticism because of the gems’ ties to a Nazi. The pieces sold belonged to the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian art collector whose husband, ...

Despite bringing in more than $200 million and setting records for the most expensive private jewelry collection, a contentious Christie's sale featuring pieces owned by the late heiress Heidi Horten ...

Heidi Horten (born in 1941) is an Austrian billionaire and philanthropist best known for inheriting and expanding the fortunes of the Horten department store empire, which was founded by her late ...

Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten died Sunday at the age of 81, the Heidi Horton Collection said in a statement, days after she opened a private museum in Vienna featuring her nearly billion-dollar ...

When Marie Antoinette’s pearl—one of the jewels smuggled out of the country as the King and Queen prepared to escape—was sold at Sothebys for a record breaking $36 million in 2018, the buyer remained ...

One of the largest jewelry sales in history opens next month in Switzerland, with 700 glittering pieces expected to fetch more than $150 million, including the world’s most expensive ruby ring valued ...