Anonymous ID: 8621d3 April 12, 2021, 1:43 a.m. No.13408137   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8158 >>8309 >>8310

>>13407945

I JUST read an old article about Spielberg- he had a stolen Rockwell hanging on a wall in his home and his assistant recognized it from an FBI poster and called it in.

"Stolen Painting Turns Up in Steven Spielberg's Collection

By GREGORY CROFT

February 27, 2008, 9:41 PM

• 2 min read

March 3, 2007 — – A Norman Rockwell painting stolen more than 30 years ago has turned up in the art collection of movie director Steven Spielberg.

 

The painting, "Russian Schoolroom," was stolen from a gallery in Clayton, Mo., during a night robbery on June 25, 1973.

 

The FBI's Art Crime Team says the painting turned up for sale in New York in 1989, the same year Spielberg bought it from a legitimate dealer.

 

It was Spielberg's staff that alerted the FBI when they noticed the painting on a list of stolen art.

 

"They were gracious and responsible to come forward with that information," Assistant Special Agent Tom Noble told ABC News.

 

Noble said Spielberg's staff allowed FBI experts to authenticate the painting, which shows children at their desks facing a bust of Lenin.

 

The painting was worth about $20,000 when it was stolen. The FBI estimates it is worth about $700,000 today.

 

"It is just wonderful that it has been found," said Laurie Norton, director of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. "It is good to know it was in safe hands, as Mr. Spielberg is a devoted and passionate collector of Norman Rockwell."

 

Spielberg is a trustee on the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum.

 

Norton said it is not uncommon for stolen paintings to turn up after decades, since thieves often wait for a case to go cold before putting a painting on the market.

 

The FBI is allowing Spielberg to keep the painting until it can be determined where it belongs."

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2921647&page=1

Anonymous ID: 8621d3 April 12, 2021, 1:52 a.m. No.13408152   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>13408139

>Andrew seems scared as fuck and, of course, stupid

When the Queen goes they have King Tampon to fall back on

Transcript;

"CHARLES: Oh, God. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!

 

CAMILLA (laughing): What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? (Both laugh). Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers.

 

CHARLES: Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)

 

CAMILLA: You are a complete idiot! (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea.

 

CHARLES: My luck to be chucked down a lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down.

 

CAMILLA (laughing): Oh darling!

 

CHARLES: Until the next one comes through.

 

CAMILLA: Oh, perhaps you could just come back as a box.

 

CHARLES: What sort of box?

 

CAMILLA: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.

 

CHARLES: That’s true.

 

CAMILLA: Repeating yourself … (laughing). Oh, darling, oh I just want you now."

 

https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/no-tampongate-in-the-crown-josh-oconnor.html

Anonymous ID: 8621d3 April 12, 2021, 2:40 a.m. No.13408249   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8250 >>8307

>>13408158

>Russian Schoolroom

Spielberg, Russian Jewish ancestry I believe, purely coincidental I'm sure.

 

Interesting how the theft played out. The dealer who sold the stolen art was deemed to have paid for it? Odd.

Wiki:

"Theft and litigation

The painting was stolen during an exhibit at a small art gallery in Clayton, Missouri, in June 1973. In 1988, it turned up and was sold at an auction in New Orleans for about $70,000. Steven Spielberg bought the painting from Judy Goffman Cutler, a noted art dealer who specialized in American illustrators, in 1989 for $200,000. A member of his staff spotted the painting on an FBI web listing of stolen works of art and the authorities were immediately notified. By 2009, the painting was in the custody of the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas. The court decided in 2010 that the 1973 owner had been appropriately reimbursed and that the painting belonged to Cutler, who had by then traded it with Spielberg for another work; she subsequently added it to the collection on display at the National Museum of American Illustration, which she co-founded."