AUSTRALIAN model Miranda Kerr has handed over jewellery worth US$8.1 million (RM35 million) gifted by Jho Low to the US Justice Department, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The jewellery is allegedly bought with funds siphoned off 1Malaysia Development Bhd by Low, or Low Taek Jho.

Kerr transferred the gifts on Friday to government agents from her safe-deposit box in Los Angeles, a spokesman told the WSJ.

Among the presents are an 11.72 carat heart-shaped diamond valued at US$1.29 million and a US$3.8 million 8.88 carat diamond pendant.

The DoJ filed three civil suits to seize assets, including Kerr’s jewellery, amounting to US$4.5 billion allegedly bought with money siphoned off the state investor.

Other assets include Low’s US$250 million yacht, real estate in London, New York and Los Angeles, artworks and Oscar statue, which actor Leonardo DiCaprio surrendered earlier.

Low has pledged to fight the suits.

Kerr dated Low for about a year in 2014, shortly after her divorce from the actor Orlando Bloom. Kerr married Snap Inc co-founder Evan Spiegel last month.

The heart-shaped diamond pendant was gifted to Kerr on Valentine’s Day 2014 while the heart-shaped necklace came from New York-based designer Lorraine Schwartz. – June 27, 2017.