In Ellen Barkin’s case, revenge is a dish best served ice cold.
The fourth ex-wife of Revlon boss Ron Perelman is planning to auction off the millions of dollars in diamonds and other jewels he showered on her during their fiveyear marriage.
Among Barkin’s goodies from Perelman are a reported $1.5 million apricot diamond ring that he gave her just a month before he abruptly served her with divorce papers on Jan. 19; an emerald and gold cuff originally designed for the Duchess of Windsor; and four diamond engagement rings.
Barkin tells this month’s Vogue magazine that she wants to dump all the jewels from her ex as they only remind her of their nightmare $20 million breakup, during which he had security men installed in their Upper East Side mansion until she moved out.
A spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house confirmed the Oct.
10 sale to The Post.
“As exquisite as the collection is, they’re just not memories I want to wear out every day,” Barkin told Vogue.
“For other people, they’re pieces of jewelry; for me, they have history . . . I’ll take a break from the jeweled-trophy-wife look.” The first such gift was a Cartier watch – with an estimated $10,000 price tag – for her birthday just two weeks after the pair met.
The last one, the 32-carat apricotcolored diamond ring, by Brooklyn-born jeweler Joel Arthur Rosenthal, is expected to go for much more than the $1.5 million Perelman paid.
Despite their astronomical value, Barkin tells Vogue, she never treated her jewels all that well – sometimes getting others to mind them.
“I’m either holding the diamond or it’s in my pocket.
Later, I’m about to do the laundry and I’m like, ‘What’s this?’ ” Barkin says.
Appraiser Ira Moskovitz, a top city antique jeweler who worked with Barkin’s father, Jack, in the Diamond District in the 60s, sized up these jewels from photographs of the ex-Mrs. Perelman drenched in gems during her five-year marriage. If she’s selling these, he said, she’ll rake in more than pocket change: