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‘Real Housewives of Dallas’ Husband Goes to Specialty Jeweler, Might Learn a Multi-Million Dollar Lesson the Hard Way

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8 years ago

May 12, 2016

INSTORE Staff

Tip: don’t tell wife to get whatever makes her happy, then let her try on 20+-carat diamond ring.

On a recent episode of “The Real Housewives of Dallas,” Stephanie Hollman and husband Travis went to the deBoulle jewelry store for their wedding anniversary, which proved to be a costly venture, as 2paragraphs writes.

The article says that Hollman – knowing that “Travis will buy me anything if he think it’ll make me happy” – chooses a $75,000 diamond bracelet (which of course Travis buys). But the big mistake comes when the husband allows store owner Denis de Boulle “to let Stephanie try on his 20 carat diamond ring ‘for your tenth anniversary.’ Presumably it would make her happy, so if what she says is true … yikes. It costs $2.5 million.” There has been no confirmation yet that the item has been sold to the Hollman’s.

Longtime INSTORE readers will recall that deBoulle won third place in the 2007 America’s Coolest Stores contest.

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