Austrian finds Jagger's lost ring
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Human rights activist Bianca Jagger's $351,000 ring which she lost last month in Salzburg in Austria has been recovered, local police say.
Andreas Huber, head of the municipal police crime squad, said he had told the former wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger that the ring had been found.
"She is very happy, while somewhat disappointed and hurt by media rumours of an insurance fraud," he said, adding that she had assured him the ring had not even been insured.
Jagger reported the platinum-and-aquamarine ring, which she had designed herself, was lost in the street on August 22 while she was attending the annual Salzburg music festival.
Mr Huber said it was found the same day by a local resident, who thought it was a key ring of little value and later gave it to a relative.
He only read of the ring's loss a few days later in an old newspaper and asked the relative on Thursday (local time) to take it to the police.
Under Austrian law, the finder is entitled to a reward of 5 per cent of the ring's value, or $17,600.
- AFP
