heist
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It’s curious, actually, that a heist film would follow even this closely an actual art theft—still among the missing are historic pieces from the French crown jewels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Kim Kardashian was awarded 1 euro in damages for being the target of an armed heist in 2016 at the Hôtel de Pourtalès in Paris, where she was robbed of millions in jewelry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Tuesday's heist is another example of "Europe's museums under siege", he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Italian police in August said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million that were stolen in a three-minute heist from a museum in March.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Bertillon staged a fake heist, a re-creation of the original theft.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The incident is the latest in a string of museum heists across Europe that have led to a growing number of priceless works disappearing from public view.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Not since Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief” has there been a more charismatic and lovable “villain,” not to mention some pretty great heists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
A vivid example: the strangest jewel heists in history, the year before the Mona Lisa disappeared.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
“Fake and so plastic, you’ve heisted the magic/ You’ve taken the drums and the accent you rapped in/ You’re branded ‘hip-hop,’ it’s so fascist and backwards.”
From Time ● Jan. 22, 2016
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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