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Maurizio Cattelan's stolen gold toilet 'America' had been installed at which historic English house, also the birthplace of Winston Churchill?
Answer
Blenheim Palace
The gold toilet was on loan for an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Churchill's birthplace, when it was stolen and plumbed out overnight in 2019.
💡 Did you know?
Maurizio Cattelan's 'America' (solid gold toilet) was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019 and has never been recovered.
Other options people guess
- Chatsworth House
- Highclere Castle
- Woburn Abbey
Topics
- sculpture
- controversy
- theft
- england
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