Mina Vrbaski: I Still Have Aneli Ahmic's Ring

Mina Vrbaski said publicly for the first time, on a TV Pink show, that Aneli Ahmic’s engagement ring is in her possession. She has already taken it to a jeweler for an appraisal, she said, and the figure she got back was around 30,000 dinars.

Aneli received the ring from Luka Vujovic during the ninth season of Elita, which wrapped up in July. The engagement fell apart near the end of the season, and the fallout played out at the estate in Simanovci. Aneli took the ring off at the time and threw it into the lake on the property.

That was supposed to be the end of the story. It was not. The ring was pulled out of the water by Mina Vrbaski, a cast member from the same season, and she is only now talking about it.

What Mina Vrbaski said about the ring

Asked about the object behind one of the most talked about fights of the season, Mina kept her answer as short as she could.

The ring is still with me. I don’t think it has the same purpose it used to have anymore.

The line applies both to what the ring symbolizes and to the piece of jewelry itself. After the appraisal, the jeweler classified it differently than when it was bought.

It’s scrap gold now, that much can be checked. It just doesn’t have the value it used to have.

How much is Aneli Ahmic’s engagement ring worth?

About 30,000 dinars, according to the jeweler Mina consulted. Scrap gold refers to jewelry bought back by the weight of the material, not by its craftsmanship or by who owned it.

That is also why the figure Mina gave does not match the image people have of a reality show engagement ring. The ring changed hands several times during the run of fights and ended up at the bottom of a lake, and the buyback price for gold does not account for any of that.

The money is going to charity

Mina also said what she plans to do with the ring.

I said I would give it to charity. I think it’s better for that money to go to a child who actually needs it.

She did not name a child. She also did not say through which organization the donation would go, or when she plans to sell the ring. Until that happens, it remains an announcement, and the ring stays with her.

Timeline of events

The whole story comes down to three points.

• the engagement and the ring during Elita’s ninth season
• the breakup, the fight, and the ring thrown into the lake at the Simanovci estate
• the ring ending up with Mina Vrbaski and its appraisal at about 30,000 dinars

The season is over, the story is not

Elita 9 wrapped up in July, but the relationships from that house are still being sorted out in front of cameras. We previously reported on the encounter outside Pink, when Aneli said there was no need to greet her former housemates. Now the same season has produced an epilogue to the ring story, and it comes from a third person.

The cast of characters is worth noting too. An object that once symbolized a relationship between two cast members is now in the hands of a third person from the same season, who talks about it as scrap material for buyback. Aneli and Luka have not publicly commented on the ring since Mina’s statement.

One concrete question still has no answer: whether the ring will actually be sold and whether the money will actually be donated. The announcement was made on a television show, in front of an audience that remembers every line out of the Bela Kuca house. If a donation does happen, it will be easy to check.