One of the world’s best-known “cursed” diamonds was due to make an appearance at Oscar night, as actress Felicity Huffman was said to be considering wearing a diamond brooch containing 108 diamonds, including the notorious “Black Orlov.” The brooch is suspended from a 124 diamond necklace. Huffman should have thought twice about tempting fate.%%The piece of jewelry, worth $2 million or more is owned by a Johnstown, Pennsylvania-based jeweler named J. Dennis Petimezas, who owns Watchmaker’s Diamonds and Jewelry and was actively lobbying to get Huffman to wear the necklace. However the jeweller claimed that the stone is not cursed and he would want more than $2 million to sell it.%%The “Black Orlov” was originally a 195 carat black diamond also called “The Eye of Brahma,” and was removed from a Hindu shrine in southern India, supposedly triggering the curse. Three people connected with the diamond committed suicide by jumping from high places—J.W. Paris, a jeweler who imported the stone to the United States and committed suicide in 1932, and two princesses,Nadia Vyegin-Orlov and Leonila Galitsine-Bariatinsky, who killed themselves in 1947. After their deaths, the stone was cut into three smaller stones to break the curse, including the 67.5 carat stone now in Petimezas’s necklace.