Lupita Nyong’o’s $130,000 Pearl Oscars Dress Was Stolen From Her Hotel Room

Lupita Nyong'o's $150,000 Pearl Oscars Dress Was Stolen

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by Emma Spedding |
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At the Oscars on Sunday evening Lupita Nyong'o wore a Calvin Klein Collection gown made of 6,000 white Akoya pearls, with the pearls alone reported to be worth an eye-watering $150,000.

It's a dress which in decades to come would fit right in in exhibits - but TMZ has reported that it was stolen from her hotel room. Sources tell TMZ that the precious gown was taken from her hotel room between 8am and 9pm on Tuesday.

The gown is one of a kind and took months of planning between Lupita and Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa - not exactly something you can put on eBay.

Costa said to American Vogue about the dress: “Lupita has become a close friend of the house over the last year. From the onset, I wanted the dress to be graphic, yet warm and luxurious” which he achieved by “creating a series of textures with intricate placements of a variety of different-sized pearls. We looked at a variety of different pearls—South Sea, iridescent, and natural—and decided that the natural pearls looked the most beautiful.”

See who wore what on the red carpet in the gallery below...

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Oscars 2015 Red Carpet

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Giuliana Rancic

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Kelly Osbourne in Rita Vinieris [Getty]

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America Ferrera in Jenny Packham [Getty]

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Patricia Arquette in Rosetta Getty [Getty]

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Anna Kendrick in Thakoon [Getty]

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Jamie Chung in Yanina

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Karolina Kurkova

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Margot Robbie in Saint Laurent

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Dakota Johnson in Saint Laurent

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Marion Cotillard in Dior Couture

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Dakota Johnson in Saint Laurent

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Marion Cotillard in Christian Dior Couture

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Behati Prinsloo and Adam Levine in Armani

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Felicity Jones in Alexander McQueen

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Rosamund Pike in Givenchy

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Lupita Nyong'o in Calvin Klein Collection

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Naomi Watts in Armani Prive

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Zoe Saldana

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Julianne Moore in custom Chanel

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Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe both in Alexander McQueen

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Sienna Miller in Oscar de la Renta

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Cate Blanchett in Maison Margiela

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Kerry Washington in Miu Miu

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Rita Ora in Marchesa [Getty]

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Reese Witherspoon in Tom Ford [Getty]

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Gwyneth Paltrow in Ralph and Russo [Getty]

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Jennifer Lopez in Elie Saab [Getty]

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Keira Knightley in Valentino

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Lady Gaga in custom Alaia

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Scarlett Johansson in Versace [Rex]

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Jennifer Aniston in Versace [Getty]

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Nicole Kidman [Getty]

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Sophie Hunter and Benedict Cumberbatch

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