Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In 1668, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier returned to France with a haul of diamonds, including a massive Blue Gem. Over the next 350 years, the diamond travelled the globe in the hands of kings, bankers, and thieves. Everyone who possessed it met with misfortune and, in some cases, death.


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