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'Chasing Aphrodite' And Other Dirty Art World Deals

A marble sculpture from the 4th century B.C. shows winged griffins attacking a fallen doe. It was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985. A decade later, authorities seized Polaroid photos from the warehouse of a well-known antiquities middleman, who admitted the sculpture had been looted from ruins in Italy. <a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/mtKFgU&quot;><strong>Click here to see those Polaroids.</strong></a> (AP)
A marble sculpture from the 4th century B.C. shows winged griffins attacking a fallen doe. It was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985. A decade later, authorities seized Polaroid photos from the warehouse of a well-known antiquities middleman, who admitted the sculpture had been looted from ruins in Italy. Click here to see those Polaroids. (AP)

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