The diamond had many owners, and his second, more famous name of the owner was given to the Dutch banker Henry Philip Hope. The descendants of Hope were on the verge of bankruptcy and decided to sell the stone to Pierre Cartier. Cartier almost desperate to find a buyer for such an expensive decoration, when suddenly there was an American Evelyn Walsh Macklin. It was a secular lady, a lover of the life of the jazz era, bathed in luxury, money and champagne.
