Academy to reclaim Oscar from Rhode Island auction firm for $10

Academy to reclaim Oscar from Rhode Island auction firm for $10

Written by Anthony McCartney

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An agreement approved by a judge will allow the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to pay $10 to reclaim a 1940s-era Oscar statuette that was auctioned last year without its permission.

US returns $15 million Picasso painting stolen from France
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US returns $15 million Picasso painting stolen from France

Associated Press

Written by Glynn A. Hill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at $15 million that had been stolen from a Paris museum more than a decade ago and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.

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