Paris' luxury Ritz hotel finds guest's missing diamond ring in hoover

A Sotheby's employee shows a Superb and extremely rare ruby and diamond ring by Cartier, with a Burmese ruby. AP - Martial Trezzini

Lost a very expensive diamond ring? Try checking the vacuum cleaner. That's what employees of Paris' luxury Ritz hotel did — and got lucky.

Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that a Malaysian guest of the hotel filed a police complaint on Friday alleging that her diamond ring vanished from her room. The newspaper said the ring was worth an estimated €750,000.