LONDON — Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion were sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison.
The 18-carat, fully functioning toilet was on display as a piece of contemporary art at Blenheim Palace — the country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born — when five burglars smashed a window and yanked it from its plumbing in a brazen early-morning raid in September 2019.
It was never recovered and was believed to have been chopped up and sold.
James Sheen, 40, a roofer who pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy and transferring criminal property, was sentenced in Oxford Crown Court to four years in prison.
Michael Jones, 39, who worked for Sheen and was found guilty of burglary, was sentenced to two years and three months.
The toilet weighed just over 215 pounds and was worth more than its weight in gold.
The value of the gold at the time was $3.5 million. But it was insured for the equivalent of more than $6 million.
The toilet, titled “America,” was created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan.
The golden throne had been installed at Blenheim Palace, west of London, only two days before it was stolen. It previously was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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