It was an ordinary day at his Los Angeles law office when John Nadolenco opened a letter from Brazil enlisting his help in a mission to retrieve a stolen, and quite possibly cursed, 836-pound emerald.

A massive, 836lb emerald thought to be worth as much as $1bn, and rumored to be cursed, will return to its home soil of Brazil, a US court ruled this week. “We’re very happy with the decision,” ...

An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...

A colossal green stone known as the Bahia Emerald may finally return to Brazil after nearly a decade of litigation in the U.S. Judge Reggie B. Walton, of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

The world's largest emerald rough, weighing 836 pounds (approximately 380 kg) and nicknamed the "Cursed Emerald," is set to return to its homeland, Brazil, 23 years after its extraction. On the 22nd ...

A judge has ruled that a massive 836lb emerald, which was the center of a bizarre legal battle, must be returned to Brazil. The gem was carried out of the Brazilian rainforest by a team of mules, one ...

Nearly a quarter-century ago, a giant, malformed emerald was illegally wrenched from Brazilian soil and smuggled across the ocean and into the United States, where it has been the object of intrigue, ...

The judge brushed aside pleas from a consortium of U.S. gem speculators who claimed to be the rightful owners. Nearly a quarter-century ago, a giant, malformed emerald was illegally wrenched from ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Many extraordinary stories have been told about the Bahia Emerald, a large portion of them false. It has been asserted that panthers, or some other ferocious beasts, attacked a ...