Greek Officials Raid House of Ex-Getty Curator

Zirganos, N, and Felch, J. (2006) ‘Greek Officials Raid House of Ex-Getty Curator’, Los Angeles Times, 2 April.

PAROS, Greece — In a surprise search Wednesday, Greek authorities seized 17 unregistered artifacts and a Byzantine icon from the vacation house of Marion True, the former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator on trial in Rome on charges she trafficked in looted art.

Among the objects seized, only a Hellenistic marble torso is thought to be archeologically significant.

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Marion True

Marion True was Curator of Antiquities at the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles from 1986 until 2005. She was charged and tried in both Italy and Greece on offences related to antiquities smuggling, but never convicted.