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Four men charged over $9 million golden toilet heist at Winston Churchill's birthplace
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Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday it has authorised criminal charges against four men, ages 35-39, over the theft.
Police said that because the toilet had been connected to the palace’s plumbing system, its removal caused “significant damage and flooding” to the 18th-century building, a UNESCO World Heritage site filled with valuable art and furniture that draws thousands of visitors each year.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York, where the artwork was installed in a bathroom prior to it being shown at Blenheim Palace, described the toilet as “cast in 18-carat gold”.
The museum said the artwork invited viewers to “make use of the fixture individually and privately” to experience “unprecedented intimacy with a work of art”.
Personally I wonder if it’s in the shape of a toilet to be perfectly honest," Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Barber told the BBC.
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