And Emma Stone went the sweet route with a below-the-knee strapless princess dress from Alexander McQueen.

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Mattei shook up the business by offering oil-exporting nations a bigger share of production. (He also reportedly tried to win a sweet deal by enticing the Shah of Iran with an Italian princess.) At one point British diplomats fretted that Mattei's dealmaking could "seriously prejudice the stability of the Middle East, " according to The Prize, Daniel Yergin's 1991 history of the oil business.

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