On May 4, 2012, Jason Felch, one of the co-authors of “Chasing Aphrodite” reported that “An Italian court has upheld an order for the seizure of a masterpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, finding that the bronze statue of a victorious athlete was illegally exported from Italy before the museum purchased it for $4 million in 1976.”
Source: LA Times.
