The black and blue evening dress sold for more than 11 times the expected price, a sign of Diana’s continuing allure more than a quarter century after her death.
A prolific journalist and author, he ignited an uproar with a less-than-flattering portrait of Charles and Diana’s marriage. “The most reviled man in Britain,” one newspaper called him.
An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was overshadowed by a fatal car crash that stunned the world.