Beyoncé has risked controversy by sporting a yellow &#8216;blood diamond&#8217; necklace again in a newly released image for her Tiffany &amp; Co. campaign with husband Jay-Z.
The singer, 40, was previously said to be &#8216;disappointed and angry&#8217; at unknowingly modeling the jaw-dropping diamond after facing furious online backlash.
However in new images released by the luxury jewellery brand, Beyoncé is once again wearing the giant yellow stone around her neck.
The photograph will no doubt cause a stir after she previously came under furious fire over the decision to showcase the diamond, with many social media users calling attention to its contentious history.
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Promo image: Beyoncé appeared on Instagram on Tuesday night to share a new image from the ABOUT LOVE Tiffany &amp; Co. campaign with her husband Jay-Z
Beyoncé appeared on Instagram on Tuesday night to share a new image from the ABOUT LOVE Tiffany &amp; Co. campaign, wearing the controversial stone.
The musician posed with her longtime partner, 51, wearing a fitted white dress with a plunging neckline.
It framed the famous 128-carat yellow diamond necklace previously worn by Audrey Hepburn and Lady Gaga.
Beyonce is just the fourth female &#8211; and the first black woman &#8211; to ever wear the gem.
In the promotional photo she hooked an arm around her husband&#8217;s as he was photographed with his head turned toward his wife.
The rapper, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, looked dapper in a black suit with a white shirt and black bowtie.
Bey captioned the post: &#8216;ABOUT LOVE | @tiffanyandco.&#8217;
The yellow diamond was discovered in a colonial mine in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1877 &#8211; at a time when the country, and its mines, were under British colonial rule &#8211; and when predominantly black migrant workers were subjected to horrific conditions while receiving paltry, and sometimes no, pay in return.
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According to a source close to Beyonce, the singer was unaware of the diamond&#8217;s controversial history when she first wore the diamond, and had been left outraged over the fact that she was not given more information about the gem&#8217;s background.
&#8216;Beyonce is aware of the criticism and is disappointed and angry that she wasn&#8217;t made aware of questions about its history,&#8217; an unnamed insider told The Sun.
&#8216;She thought that every final detail had been vetted, but now she realizes that the diamond itself was overlooked.&#8217;
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Unwitting: Beyonce was previously left &#8216;disappointed and angry&#8217; after unknowingly wearing the $30M Tiffany &#8216;blood diamond&#8217;
The Tiffany diamond at the center of the backlash was dug from the De Beers’ Kimberley Mine in colonial South Africa in 1877 when black laborers were forced to work in horrendous conditions for miniscule pay.
The work was dangerous and unhealthy, with workers forced to work in cramped conditions, often causing fatal accidents.
Conditions outside of the mine were no better, with the housing for the workers featuring no natural water or waste disposal, with 1,144 dying from a range of illnesses including pneumonia and scurvy between 1897 and 1899 alone.
Traditionally, a blood diamond, also known as a conflict diamond, is any gem that has been mined and sold in order to fund military action against a government &#8211; as defined by the United Nations.
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Striking: Beyonce modeled the famed 128.54 carat Tiffany Diamond, making her the fourth female to ever wear the gem
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Spotlight: The singer faced furious backlash for wearing the gem, which was found in the Kimberley mines in South Africa in 1877 &#8211; when workers were subjected to horrific conditions
However, the term has also been applied to rough gems that were mined by people who were subjected to the kinds of conditions that Kimberley miners suffered during the 1870s &#8211; as with the Tiffany diamond that Beyonce modeled in her campaign.
The diamond&#8217;s history has prompted furious backlash against the singer and the jeweler, with many social media users voicing outrage that the diamond is still being showcased, particularly by a woman of color who has been so outspoken against racism.
&#8216;I had to process Jay Z and Beyoncé ’s Tiffany’s campaign for just a minute before saying anything but how did no one see that the whole &#8220;first Black woman&#8221; marketing angle on this is not doing what they think it’s doing when that s**t is a literal blood diamond!!!!&#8217; one furious Twitter user wrote.
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Hitting back: Beyonce&#8217;s mother Tina Knowles defended her daughter after the campaign for Tiffany &amp; Co. caused backlash online (pictured with Beyonce in 2012)
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Defending her daughter: Tina asked if any of the &#8216;activists&#8217; defending Beyonce had researched the origin of their own gems
Another added: &#8216;Not y&#8217;all celebrating the fact Beyonce is the first Black woman to wear a Tiffany blood diamond following in the footsteps of Audrey Hepburn and Lady Gaga.
&#8216;That rock needs to left alone in a museum explaining its history while paying ongoing reparations, not paraded around.&#8217;
Although Beyonce has yet to publicly comment on the furious controversy surrounding her new Tiffany campaign, her mother, Tina Knowles, took to Instagram on Thursday night to fire back at her critics, branding them hypocritical.
&#8216;How many of you socially conscious activist[s] own diamonds?&#8217; she questioned. &#8216;I thought so! Well guess what did you go to try to check to see where the diamond came from? Probably not.&#8217;
She added: &#8216;So when you guys get engaged you won&#8217;t have a diamond you gonna put on a sterling silver band and you better check out where it came from and the origin of where came from and why you add it check out the calls for the leather that you [wear] because they made it came from another country to ban and not buy diamonds right because your righteous!!&#8217;
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Breakfast at Beyonce&#8217;s! The singer put a modern spin on Audrey&#8217;s iconic look in the Sixties romcom Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s where she played socialite Holly Golightly (left)
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Beyoncé wears $30M yellow stone necklace for Tiffany campaign with Jay-Z AGAIN – despite saying she was ‘angry and disappointed’ to find out it was a BLOOD diamond

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Beyoncé wears $30M yellow stone necklace for Tiffany campaign with Jay-Z AGAIN – despite saying she was ‘angry and disappointed’ to find out it was a BLOOD diamond