TMZ reported that the federals claimed a Belgium designer named Axel Vervoordt shipped the statue to the USA, and presumably, his company put Kim’s name on the customs document. Vervoordt has worked with Kim and Kanye in the past, and back in 2016. At the time when the statue was imported, Kim and Kanye were building their Hidden Hills mansion, which at that time made headlines because it looked no less than a museum.
Still, Kim said that she has no knowledge of the statue or its purchase. For his part, Vervoordt told TMZ, that he acquired the statue “in good faith” from a French gallery exhibition at a German auction house.
“At this point there is no evidence that this piece was illegally imported from Italy. If investigation proves that the piece was actually exported from Italy without a proper export license from the Italian Ministry of Culture, then we will of course take our responsibility,” he added.
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