Lupita Nyong'o's stolen $150K Oscar gown has now been 'returned to her Hollywood hotel by the thief'

                                   

  Returned: Lupita Nyongo's' $150,000 Oscars dress has been returned to her West Hollywood hotel, pictured at the Academy Awards                                 

A dress that strongly resembles the custom gown taken from Lupita Nyong'o's hotel room earlier this week has been recovered, a sheriff's official said on Friday.

Los Angeles sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says the dress found on Friday afternoon at a West Hollywood hotel 'greatly resembles' the pearl-adorned Calvin Klein Collection by Francisco Costa dress Nyong'o wore to Sunday's Academy Awards. 

She says detectives are attempting to verify the recovered dress is the same one Nyong'o wore.

'We do have possession of a dress that greatly reassembles the dress that was stolen but I don't think at this time we can 100 percent say it's that dress, but it greatly resembles it,' Nishida said.

One of the actress' representatives reported the dress was stolen from Nyong'o's room at the London Hotel in West Hollywood late Wednesday. Authorities said it could have been taken during a broad time frame earlier in the day.

Authorities placed its value at $150,000, although experts say it could have fetched more on the black market.