A dress that strongly resembles the custom gown taken from
Lupita Nyong'o's hotel room earlier this week has been recovered, a sheriff's
official said on Friday.
Los Angeles sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says the
dress found on Friday afternoon at a West Hollywood hotel 'greatly resembles'
the pearl-adorned Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress Nyong'o wore
to Sunday's Academy Awards.
She says detectives are attempting to verify the recovered
dress is the same one Nyong'o wore.
We do have possession of a dress that greatly reassembles
the dress that was stolen but I don't think at this time we can 100 percent say
it's that dress, but it greatly resembles it,' Nishida said.
One of the actress' representatives reported the dress was
stolen from Nyong'o's 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.
Authorities placed its value at $150,000, although experts
say it could have fetched more on the black market.
The recovery of the dress was first reported by celebrity
website TMZ, which wrote in a post that a person claiming to have taken the
gown gave them information about where to find the dress.
The dress recovered on Friday afternoon was found in an
abandoned bathroom at the London Hotel, sheriff's officials wrote in a press
release.
Nyong'o won an Oscar in 2014 for her role in Twelve Years a
Slave and was a presenter at Sunday's ceremony. Her publicists declined comment
on Friday evening.
The 31-year-old actress has become a darling of Hollywood's
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.
Before the awards ceremony, Nyong'o told The Associated
Press on the red carpet, 'I'm just wearing my diamonds and pearls. My homage to
Prince,' referring to a popular song by the musician.
'There are a lot of collectors out there who are very
private and have private collections of stolen merchandise,' said style expert
and fashion commentator Mary Alice Stephenson. 'Some of these dresses have
global fame as big as any Van Gogh.'
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