Oscars volés et autres mystères

Comme c'est la soirée de la célèbre remise de statuettes, je me permets de relayer cet article sur des oscars perdus ou volés. Olivia Rutigliano est en quelque sorte devenue la "spécialiste" de ce genre d'histoires et certaines sont bien intrigantes. La folie des oscars frappe de bien des manières!! "

In another case, child-star Margaret O’Brien’s Oscar, which she won for 1945’s Meet Me in St. Louis, was allegedly taken by a housekeeper in 1954. Forty years later, two memorabilia collectors spotted the statuette at a flea market in Pasadena, bought it for $500, and returned it to O’Brien. And in 2002, Whoopi Goldberg’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Ghost went missing after she shipped it to the Academy for cleaning. It was later recovered by a security guard in an California airport trashcan. According to a member of Goldberg’s team, someone at the airport had intercepted the statuette during transit, and the Academy speculates that the alleged thief abandoned any plan to sell the award after seeing the serial number on its bottom."

  https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/03/the-incredible-true-story-of-the-oscar-everyone-thought-had-literally-been-stolen/