, the US government is asking Kim to forfeit an Ancient Roman sculpture that had been stolen from Italy. The statue, known asand dating back to the 1st or 2nd century, was sold to Kim in 2016 by the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Belgium — a name that no doubt will be familiar to anyone who remembersThe sculpture was detained by the federal government in 2016 when it first arrived in Los Angeles after having been alerted that it might be protected cultural property.
Kim's team insists that she had no knowledge of the smuggled artifact and even goes a step further to say that she was unaware the piece had been purchased in her name."Kim never purchased this piece and this is the first that she has learned of its existence," they said in a statement."We believe it may have been purchased using her name without authorization and because it was never received, she was unaware of the transaction.