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Antoinette Bonner (1892–1920) was a Romanian American jewel thief. Acting as an agent for diamond merchants from New York's Maiden Lane, she sold jewelry to wealthy society women and came to be known as the "Queen of Diamonds". Born in Romania, she learned the appraisal of gems from her father and later immigrated to the United States. In 1913, she was charged with grand larceny after failing to pay for $150,000 to $250,000 of jewelry she had acquired on memorandum from around ten separate diamond brokers. She fled to France and was arrested in Paris in 1914. Following her extradition to the United States, she was acquitted of the charges. Later in 1920, she was again charged with stealing jewels in Manhattan. When the police came to an office at Park Row Building to place her under arrest, she cried "you'll never take me alive" and swallowed a vial of potassium cyanide, killing herself.