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U.S. Government Seeks Forfeiture of Roman Statue That Was Allegedly En Route to Kim Kardashian
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Posted on 05/04/2021 11:37:29 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

A newly filed lawsuit reveals that, in 2016, the U.S. government seized an ancient Roman statue that was allegedly being delivered to Kim Kardashian.

In the suit, filed on April 30 in the United States District Court of Central California’s Western Division, the U.S. government called for the forfeiture of the “illegally imported” statue, which resembles the lower half of a person draped in fabric. The lawsuit, filed in rem (or against the statue itself), was first reported on Twitter by Robert Snell, a writer for the Detroit News.

According to the suit, the statue had been displayed at the booth of Brussels’s Axel Vervoordt gallery at the 2011 edition of the TEFAF art fair, which offers wares from antiquity to today, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. When the work was seized in 2016 in Los Angeles, the importer’s name was allegedly listed as “Kim Kardashian dba Noel Roberts Trust.” The work is currently held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: axelvervoordt; belgium; brussels; california; cancelculture; europeanunion; godsgravesglyphs; kimkardashian; losangeles; maastricht; netherlands; noelrobertstrust; robertsnell; romanempire; tefafartfair; twitter
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To: DesertRhino

The art types use the govt to control possession of antiquities, for their own use. They pretend it’s for the public good. All BS. The Kardashians just don’t belong to the right group of arrogant elitists.


21 posted on 05/04/2021 12:18:33 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ameribbean expat

When in Rome, do as the Kardashians do.


22 posted on 05/04/2021 12:41:44 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: dead

#4 She made a sex video. It is how she got started.....


23 posted on 05/04/2021 1:19:28 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Bratch

For her pix, maybe moochelle’s pix could be used as eyewash...

What an example of “horrific butt-ugliness”...


24 posted on 05/04/2021 3:30:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ameribbean expat

A good rule of thumb is to not bother with articles in which the word “allege” appears in the title. It typically reflects a poorly researched or poorly written article.


25 posted on 05/04/2021 4:17:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This is really about Kanye West's political activity, imho.

26 posted on 05/05/2021 8:09:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Good guess.

5.56mm


27 posted on 05/05/2021 8:23:35 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: M Kehoe

Especially after seeing the thing, I like ancient stuff, but gads, not much there.


28 posted on 05/05/2021 8:25:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Between you and me, I wouldn’t put a Ming vase on it. Maybe a wandering jude?

5.56mm


29 posted on 05/05/2021 8:30:46 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: M Kehoe
Maybe an acrylic upper body could be added, in the likeness of, well, if she ends up with it, probably herself...

30 posted on 05/05/2021 8:44:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sorry, the glutenous maximus on the statue is not large enough.

8^)

5.56mm


31 posted on 05/05/2021 8:52:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: M Kehoe
It's pretty old, and in pretty bad shape -- I guess this is a different kind of junk in the trunk. So, still works by analogy. :^D

32 posted on 05/05/2021 9:09:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

8^)

5.56mm


33 posted on 05/05/2021 9:25:57 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It almost looks like it could have been a poor, early attempt at the “Walking Liberty” model.


34 posted on 05/05/2021 1:34:02 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t see how there’s enough of that statue left that an expert could draw any definitive conclusions.


35 posted on 05/05/2021 3:58:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 21twelve; colorado tanker

US sculpture (and European sculpture) descends from it, but as today, some is better than others. :^)

The Laacoon Group is so good, in recent years one writer has claimed that, rather than just learning from it, Michelangelo sculpted it. If Big Mike had, however, it’s not unlikely he’d have carved in an autography, as he did with his first Pieta.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Laocoon+Group&tbm=isch


36 posted on 05/05/2021 7:59:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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By “it”, I meant classical sculpture in general, btw, sorry.


37 posted on 05/05/2021 8:00:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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