4 Charged In Theft Of $6M Gold Toilet Titled “America”

November 6, 2023 Britain, Crime

The Associated Press reports:

Four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.

The toilet, valued at 4.8 million pounds ($5.95 million), was the work of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. It was part of an art installation at Blenheim Palace, near the city of Oxford, a few days before it vanished overnight in September 2019.

The golden toilet, titled “America,” was intended to be a pointed satire about excessive wealth. The lavatory was fully functioning, and prior to the theft, visitors to the exhibition could book a three-minute appointment to use it. The artwork has never been found.

Read the full article. From a YouTube report: “Because the golden toilet had been connected to the palace’s plumbing system, police said its removal caused ‘significant damage and flooding’ to the building.”

During a 2018 display at New York City’s Guggenheim, museum officials famously offered the toilet to Trump when he requested the loan of a Van Gogh painting for his personal quarters at the White House.



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