Businessman Handed 21-Month Suspended Sentence for Role in Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Heist
19-05-2025 17:48 via artnews.com

Businessman Handed 21-Month Suspended Sentence for Role in Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Heist

A judge at Oxford crown court in the UK has handed a businessman a 21-month suspended sentence for his role in the theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6 million golden toilet.Frederick Doe, who was photographed celebrating outside the court with his father after the verdict, played a middle-man role in the 2019 heist of the artwork, titled America (2016), from Blenheim Palace. The 18th-century stately home and UNESCO world heritage site is the former home of the late British prime minister Winst
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