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Kim Kardashian has denied owning an ancient Roman sculpture that the U.S. government believes was illegally smuggled out of Italy.
It was claimed that Kardashian had purchased the limestone statue, Fragment of Myron’s Samian Athena, back in 2016 – from the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Belgium.
Kim Kardashian denies attempt to import looted Ancient Roman sculpture as border control âseized $750,000 shipmentâ
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star claims that she never purchased the piece and someone else had used her name to import the item to America.
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The statue was seized by Homeland Security Investigations officials at the Port of Los Angeles in May of 2016 as a possibly protected cultural property from Italy, according to the civil forfeiture action filed on April 30.
Kim Kardashian denies any knowledge of illegally exported sculpture
Kim Kardashian denies any knowledge of illegally exported sculpture By Cover Media
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Kim Kardashian has denied owning an Ancient Roman sculpture that the U.S. government believes was illegally exported out of Italy.
It was claimed that Kardashian had purchased the limestone statue, Fragment of Myron’s Samian Athena, back in 2016 from the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Belgium.
However, upon its arrival in the United States as part of a 5.5-ton shipment of antiques and furniture in May that year, authorities were alerted to the fact that the artwork, believed to be from the first or second century, might be protected cultural property.