Do you know how much I love writing about jewelry? I wish I could write about jewelry every day. I wish more celebrities bought and gifted more jewelry, and they all issued press releases about the jewelry and we had lots of close-up photos of the pieces. Oh, and handbags!! I could spend all day on handbags and jewelry. Anyway, this is a story about jewelry, and it’s also a story about Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. I never thought of Justin as a big gift-giver, nor do I think he really has an “eye” for ladies’ fashion or jewelry – judging by his choice for Biel’s engagement ring, he likes really big, gaudy pieces. Apparently, Justin is getting into the spirit of things, though, and he gave Jessica some additional bling to celebrate their engagement:
As if the $130,000 engagement ring that Justin Timberlake dropped on Jessica Biel back in December weren’t enough, he just showered her with a prewedding gift fit for a princess: $250,000 worth of jewelry! JT presented Biel with a stunning diamond necklace-and-bracelet set worth more than many American family homes.
“She’s ecstatic, she looks incredible in the set,” says an insider, who noted that JT had been planning to give her the jewelry for months, even using a shopping trip in May to jeweler Eli Halili’s store in NYC’s SoHo to gauge her tastes.
Even her engagement ring can’t compare to his sparkly gift, which is “easily worth a quarter of a mil,” the insider says. But Jessica and her family are thrilled because to them the present represents a lot more than its dollar value.
“It’s like he has finally made up his mind and is ready to spend the rest of his life with this woman,” the insider claims. The gems are all part of a trend of Justin showering Jessica with rocks after what has been a rocky relationship. Over the past four years, Star has reported him straying with no less than four separate women.
The jewelry seems to have a palliative effect. “The whole Biel clan is really excited… no one more so than Jessica, who finally – after all the heartache and tears – has landed the man of her dreams.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
You know what I got from that? Justin can (continue to) do whatever he wants with whoever he wants just as long as he continues to give Jessica nice jewelry. Is that an acceptable trade-off? If Jessica was hoping for true love, a love of commitment and mutual respect and fidelity, I would say it’s a crappy tradeoff. But I think Jessica is fine with Justin doing whatever and whoever, so maybe the jewelry is just a bonus. Would you have sex with Justin Timberlake for $250,000 worth of diamonds? I might consider it, honestly.
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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
