Paris' luxury Ritz hotel finds guest's missing diamond ring in hoover

Lost a very expensive diamond ring? Try checking the vacuum cleaner. That's what employees of Paris' luxury Ritz hotel did — and got lucky.

A Sotheby's employee shows a Superb and extremely rare ruby and diamond ring by Cartier, with a Burmese ruby. AP - Martial Trezzini

Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that a Malaysian guest of the hotel filed a police complaint on Friday alleging that her diamond ring vanished from her room. The newspaper said the ring was worth an estimated €750,000.

The Ritz Paris wouldn't release details about the ring or the client but said the ring had been found on Sunday.

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“Thanks to meticulous searches by security agents at the Ritz Paris, the ring was found this morning in a vacuum cleaner bag,” the hotel said in a statement.

“Our client is happy at the news.”

According to Malaysian newspaper The Star, the woman was only described as a "Malaysian businesswoman," who had reported to police that she had left the ring on a table on Friday, 8 December, while she went window shopping in the city for a few hours.

According to the website of the Ritz, located at Place Vendome in central Paris, room prices in the hotel start at a modest €2,000 per night, but can go up to a staggering €46,900 for the 218 m2 Imperial Suite.

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