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THE MOST EXPENSIVE ENGAGEMENT RINGS IN HOLLYWOOD HISTORY

There’s no such thing as too much bling for these lucky celebrity ladies

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$10M MARIAH CAREY

“It’s so heavy I can’t lift my arm up,” Mariah quipped of the 35-carat, $10-million stunner Australian billionair­e James Packer, 50, gave her in front of a group of their nearest and dearest at NYC’S Eleven Madison Park restaurant in January 2016. Too bad we never got to see the wedding ring. The pair broke up nine months later — but it didn’t stop the diva, 48, from continuing to rock her massive bling on a different finger.

$4.7M PARIS HILTON

They’d only been dating for five months when Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, 35, proposed to the socialite in 2005. But the ring — a whopping 24 carats, worth $4.7 million — was one for the ages. “He writes me love letters and gets me roses every day,” Paris, 36, gushed of her fiancé. “I love it!” Alas, that wasn’t enough to sustain their fairy-tale romance. Four months after the engagement, Paris squared was no more.

$4.1M JENNIFER LOPEZ

When Marc Anthony first met J. Lo in 1998, he knew they’d wind up together. “She came to see me backstage at a theater [and] I don’t know what hit me,” he recalled. “I probably said… ‘you’re my wife and you don’t even know it.’” While the wedding didn’t happen until they reunited six years later, the $4.1 million, 8.5-carat stone Marc, 49, gave Jennifer, 48, made up for lost time. Though they split in 2011, the pair still amicably co-parent twins Max and Emme, 9.

$5M BEYONCÉ

As happy as she was when Jay-z put a ring on it, Bey dismissed the idea of a fancy rock at first. “It’s just material,” she insisted, “and it’s just silly to me.” But while the matching “IV” tattoos on their ring fingers may be more meaningful (they wed on 4/4/08), the 18-carat, $5 million beauty the rapper, 48, convinced his bride, 36, to accept is truly fit for a queen.

$8M KIM KARDASHIAN

When it came to popping the question, Kanye West, 40, was a true showman. For his surprise 2013 proposal, he rented out the San Francisco Giants’ baseball stadium and staged a multimilli­ondollar extravagan­za with a 50-piece orchestra. The sparkler was spectacula­r: a 15-carat ring (pictured) worth $8M. Two years after they wed, Kanye presented Kim, 37, with a new 20-carat Lorraine Schwartz rock, which was famously stolen in a 2016 robbery in Paris.

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