Kim Kardashian has been named in legal
documents as the importer of an Ancient Roman statue which US
authorities blocked at LA customs five years ago as being stolen
from Italy, sources said Wednesday.
American prosecutors have ordered the work to be returned to
Italy, they said.
The work is described in import documents as a first-second
century AD Roman plaster copy of a Greek original from Athens.
ArtNet News said the statue was seized at LA's port in 2016 as
part of a shipment of antiquities, modern furniture and
decorative objects worth some 745,882 dollars.
The prosecutors' request to return it does not imply crimes by
the super-influencer and reality TV star and there is no
suspicion that Kardashian knew of its potentially illegal
provenance, the online journal said.
Kardashian and rapper Kanye West recently said they were
splitting.
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