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The case is unsolved; no arrests have been made, and no works have been recovered. The stolen works have been valued at hundreds of millions of dollars by the FBI and art dealers. The museum offers a $10 million reward for information leading to the art's recovery, the largest bounty ever offered by a private institution.
Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo; KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images It's hard to believe that dramatic Thomas Crown Affair-style art thefts could actually happen in real life, but recent heists ...
The largest heist was £291.9 million (equivalent to £840 million in 2023) [4] taken in the City bonds robbery, although Charles Darwin's notebooks (announced as having been most likely stolen in 2020) were never valued. The largest cash robbery was the Securitas depot robbery. The heists vary in location and form.
National Gallery, Athens, Greece One of three paintings stolen from the Greek National Gallery in a 2012 heist. Recovered from a dry river bed near Keratea, East Attica, Greece. [56] Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso: 9 January 2012: 2021: National Gallery, Athens, Greece One of three paintings stolen from the Greek National Gallery in a 2012 heist.
Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved ...
Art heist movies — think “Ocean’s 8,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” Audrey Hepburn’s “How To Steal a Million” — always capture the imagination, but of course, audacious thefts are ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, 1990 robbery of 13 pieces worth $500 million from a Boston museum that was until 2019 the largest art theft and largest theft of private property in history; also unsolved. 2019 Dresden heist, theft of jewelry and related items valued at nearly €1 billion, making it the largest such theft in history
After twenty-five years, one of the country's most notorious art heists has still not been solved. Neither of the two robbers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston have been captured ...