America was a sculpture created in 2016 by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. An example of satirical participatory art, [1] it was a fully functioning toilet made of 18- karat solid gold. [1][2] It was stolen in 2019 from Blenheim Palace, where it was exhibited on loan from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Mar 19, 2025 · Five men had smashed their way into the palace, ripped out a £4.8m solid gold toilet and fled in a stolen Volkswagen Golf. The working loo, entitled America, had been on display for just two days ...

Sep 14, 2019 · An 18-karat solid gold toilet worth more than $1 million was stolen early Saturday morning from a British palace that was the birthplace of Winston Churchill, police said.

Mar 18, 2025 · Two Men Found Guilty in Theft of $6 Million Gold Toilet. The glimmering commode, an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen during a break-in at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home in 2019.

Feb 24, 2025 · LONDON (AP) — It was not your typical smash-and-grab burglary and the booty was precious: a toilet worth more than its weight in gold. The one-of-a-kind 18-carat gold toilet was swiped in under five minutes from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born, in the predawn hours of Sept. 14, 2019, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

Nov 7, 2023 · LONDON -- Four people have been charged after a fully functional solid gold toilet worth nearly $6 million was stolen from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, police said.

Jurors in the trial of three men accused over the theft of a £4.8m solid gold toilet have retired to consider their verdicts. The 18-carat artwork was taken from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in ...

Sep 20, 2024 · The time off stirred up his artistic touch into creating an 18 karat, fully functioning solid gold toilet. The golden toilet was a popular artwork at the Guggenheim in New York before being transferred to the 18th-century palace in England, where it was reported stolen in 2019.

Two men have been found guilty of the "audacious" theft of a multi-million-dollar solid-gold toilet from the palace where Winston Churchill was born. The sculpture, worth an estimated 4.8 million ...

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