Kim Kardashian found herself caught up in an unlikely international art smuggling row involving an ancient Roman sculpture that was imported to California under her name. US prosecutors last week called for the statue fragment, which was seized at a Los Angeles port in 2016, to be forfeited and returned to Italy, citing an Italian archaeologist who found it saying the piece had been ‘looted, smuggled and illegally exported.’ Court documents said the consignee and importer name was listed as ‘Kim Kardashian dba Noel Roberts Trust’ in Woodland Hills, California and referred to an invoice ‘for the sale of the defendant statue by Vervoordt to Noel Robert Trust, on March 11, 2016.’
