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Art Stolen From Kate Moss Mansion as She Slept

Cops nab man, 24

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted May 21, 2010 4:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – A $115,000 Banksy portrait and other art work was stolen from model Kate Moss' $10 million London mansion as she and her family slept. A 24-year-old man has been arrested in the theft, though police did not reveal if the art was recovered. Moss, 36, was staying in the home with partner Jamie Hince and her mom. It was a week for brazen art heists. A thief cut 5 masterpieces worth at least $100 million from their frames at the Paris Museum of Modern Art this week. Works included pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Modigliani.

British model Kate Moss was asleep in her London mansion when art work was stolen from her home
British model Kate Moss was asleep in her London mansion when art work was stolen from her home   (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
FILE - This is a Wednesday, April 1, 2009 file photo of British model Kate Moss as she attends a TOPSHOP TOPMAN flagship store opening party in New York.  Campaigners against eating disorders criticized Kate Moss Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used...
FILE - This is a Wednesday, April 1, 2009 file photo of British model Kate Moss as she attends a TOPSHOP TOPMAN flagship store opening party in New York. Campaigners against eating disorders criticized...   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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COMMENTS
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cognitivefilter
May 23, 2010 4:14 AM CDT
what's with all this art thievery? watch it be the world's government officials, storing it for after they nuke the planet
vjh
May 21, 2010 3:16 PM CDT
I didn't think a "Velvet Elvis" went for that much.
Riffran
May 21, 2010 10:43 AM CDT
maybe it was the ninjas that graduated "with honors" at that Aussie school....didn't even awaken a sleeping *ahem* babe..(not really a babe but you get the idea)
 

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