"The Bachelor" Lorenzo Borghese Saves the Day for Salma Hayek  11/3/06

Salma Hayek has a real-life Prince Charming to thank for returning pricey jewellery to her when it ended up on the back seat of a taxi cab.

The pretty Latina picked out $50,000 (#27,800)-worth of rented jewelry to show off at a recent New York benefit and her assistant left it in a taxi.

Fortunately for the actress, Lorenzo Borghese - the royal star of new US reality series The Bachelor: Rome - was the next person to hail the cab.

Lucky Hayek says, "I just took something really simple and they took the rest and the poor girl that brought me the jewelry left it in a taxi.

"The guy that's like the prince in The Bachelor gets in the cab right after that girl, somewhere random in New York and sees an envelope that says 'Salma Hayek'.

"He called (TV network) ABC and said, 'I think Salma Hayek just lost $50,000 worth of jewelry,' and they gave it back. Isn't that fantastic?"

Hunky Borghese, who is related to historical French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, has an Italian title, passed down from his ancestors in the 1600s.