Man sentenced for stealing Marilyn Monroe statue in LA
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 18, 2019 the "Ladies of Hollywood Gazebo" is seen on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, June 18, 2019. - A man convicted of vandalizing President Donald Trump's sidewalk star in Hollywood last summer has been arrested for stealing a statue of Marilyn Monroe from a nearby monument.
Austin Clay, 25, was identified by police from video surveillance footage.Having discovered that he was on parole after a conviction for damaging Trump's star on the famous Hollywood "Walk of Fame," investigators searched his home June 21, 2019.
According to local media reports, they found evidence linking him to the theft of the statue.The statue itself -- showing Monroe in her famous flying skirt pose from "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) -- has not been found.It had been perched atop a small gazebo at the beginning of the "Walk of Fame", part of a monument dedicated to Hollywood's most famous actresses. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
A man who stole a statue of Marilyn Monroe from atop a Hollywood public art installation has been sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay more than $14,000 (around P717,400) in restitution.
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says 25-year-old Austin Mikel Clay on Tuesday, July 9, entered an open plea of no contest to felony grand theft and vandalism.
The Monroe statue depicts the actress in an iconic pose from the 1955 film “The Seven Year Itch” and went missing last June 16.
Last year, Clay pleaded no contest to a felony vandalism charge for smashing President Trump’s Walk of Fame star with a pickax.
He was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay damages to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in that case. RGA
