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  • CA: Getty Curator on Trial for Acquiring Stolen Antiquities

    07/18/2005 3:57:33 PM PDT · by BurbankKarl · 5 replies · 270+ views
    LA Times a paper hardly read... ^ | 7/18/05 | Tracy Wilkinson
    ROME -- In a case with broad implications for the art world, the trial of a senior curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum who is accused of illegally acquiring antiquities opened today in Rome, and was almost immediately suspended to await translation of key documents into English. The prosecution of Marion True, the Getty's curator for antiquities and director of the Getty Villa, will resume Nov. 16, a three judge panel decided. True, 56, is accused of criminal conspiracy to receive stolen goods and illicit receipt of archeological items purportedly dug up in Italy. The case involves 42 allegedly...