Hello, Kim Kardashian? Italy called: It wants its statue back.
That pretty much sums up a recent civil forfeiture action filed by the United States government alleging that an antique Roman statue imported to Los Angeles by
the reality TV star was smuggled into the country illegally.
Court documents filed last month claim that the five-ton shipment — valued at nearly $750,000 and addressed to “Kim Kardashian dba Noel Roberts Trust” in Woodland Hills — was seized by Customs and Border Protection in 2016 under suspicion that its entry to the U.S. violated the Cultural Property Implementation Act.
