{"id":43808,"date":"2015-03-02T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43808"},"modified":"2015-03-02T00:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:25:39","slug":"deputies-recover-dress-that-greatly-resembles-oscar-dress-stolen-from-lupita-nyongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/02\/deputies-recover-dress-that-greatly-resembles-oscar-dress-stolen-from-lupita-nyongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies recover dress that \u2018greatly resembles\u2019 Oscar dress stolen from Lupita Nyong\u2019o"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Thief returns Lupita Nyong&#8217;o&#8217;s $150k Oscar gown | <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TrKK8Qu8QH\">http:\/\/t.co\/TrKK8Qu8QH<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/puft1MeY2O\">pic.twitter.com\/puft1MeY2O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manorama Online (@manoramaonline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manoramaonline\/status\/572060388428136448\">March 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A dress that strongly resembles the custom gown taken from Lupita Nyong\u2019o\u2019s hotel room earlier this week has been recovered, a sheriff\u2019s official said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles sheriff\u2019s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says the dress found Friday afternoon at a West Hollywood hotel \u201cgreatly resembles\u201d the pearl-adorned Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress Nyong\u2019o wore to Sunday\u2019s Academy Awards. She says detectives are attempting to verify the recovered dress is the same one Nyong\u2019o wore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have possession of a dress that greatly reassembles the dress that was stolen but I don\u2019t think at this time we can 100 per cent say it\u2019s that dress, but it greatly resembles it,\u201d Nishida said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the actress\u2019 representatives reported the dress was stolen from Nyong\u2019o\u2019s room at the London Hotel in West Hollywood late Wednesday. Authorities said it could have been taken during a broad time frame earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities placed its value at $150,000, although experts say it could have fetched more on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery of the dress was first reported by celebrity website TMZ.com, which wrote in a post that a person claiming to have taken the gown gave them information about where to find the dress.<\/p>\n<p>The dress recovered Friday afternoon was found in an abandoned bathroom at the London Hotel, sheriff\u2019s officials wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Nyong\u2019o won an Oscar in 2014 for her role in \u201cTwelve Years a Slave\u201d and was a presenter at Sunday\u2019s ceremony. Her publicists declined comment Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old actress has become a darling of Hollywood\u2019s red carpets in the past two years, with commenters and fans praising her fashion choices. She accessorized the dress with Chopard diamond drop earrings and three Chopard diamond rings.<\/p>\n<p>Before the awards ceremony, Nyong\u2019o told The Associated Press on the red carpet, \u201cI\u2019m just wearing my diamonds and pearls. My homage to Prince,\u201d referring to a popular song by the musician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of collectors out there who are very private and have private collections of stolen merchandise,\u201d said style expert and fashion commentator Mary Alice Stephenson. \u201cSome of these dresses have global fame as big as any Van Gogh.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thief returns Lupita Nyong&#8217;o&#8217;s $150k Oscar gown | http:\/\/t.co\/TrKK8Qu8QH pic.twitter.com\/puft1MeY2O \u2014 Manorama Online (@manoramaonline) March 1, 2015 LOS ANGELES\u2014A dress &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-tami-abdollah","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}