The Pink Star was mined by De Beers in 1999 in South Africa, and weighed 132.5 carats in the rough.
As a result of this exceptional rarity, the Beny Steinmetz Group called Steinmetz Diamonds took a cautious 20 months to cut the Pink.
The Pink Star was auctioned by Sotheby's Geneva on 13 November 2013.
The Pink Star was bought by New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf who renamed it The Pink Dream[3][1] although, according to Forbes magazine, the auction price was not settled by the buyer and the stone was again added to the Sotheby's inventory.
[4][5] On 3 April 2017, the Pink Star was sold at an auction in Hong Kong for US$71.2 million to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises.