Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscars dress dumped by thieves when they realised it was FAKE

 

The gown was supposedly studded with thousands of white Akoya pearls sewn on by a team of 25 people over 10 weeks

A £100,000 dress stolen from Lupita Nyong’o at the Oscars was dumped by thieves when they realised the 6,000 pearls it was made out of were fake.



The actress' custom-made Calvin Klein dress she wore to the Academy Awards a week ago was stolen from her room in the London hotel in west Hollywood.

It was supposedly studded with thousands of white Akoya pearls sewn on by a team of 25 people over 10 weeks.

But the dress has now been found dumped in a garment bag back in the hotel.

  

Investigators believe the thieves took two of the pearls to a local jewellers, realised they were phoney and decided to ditch the frock.

It was found in a public toilet at the hotel.

Authorities may be investigating the possibility that the dress was swapped for a copy with fake pearls, and that the original is still out there.

They are examining CCTV from the hotel.

Lupita Nyong’o is a Mexican-Kenyan actress and director who attended university in the United States.

She appeared in the 2013 blockbuster 12 Years a Slave, a performance for which she won 2014 Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards.

She is set to appear in the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.