Court won't hear Elizabeth Taylor case...

...over an allegedly stolen Van Gogh painting.

Taylor has no legal claim to it, if the family can prove it was theirs, prior to being seized by the Nazis.

That's as it should be. It's unfortunate for her, but she has no case here.


CNN link

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...that they refused to hear the case is the "news" part, Diva.

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I mean, La Liz didn't steal it.

She bought a painting and then found out later it 'might' have been stolen.

Why aren't they going after the person who sold it to her?

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And if I had read the article in the first place...


"The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany."

See, THERE is where it's a problem. She left it. Yes, it belogned to her, but she left it.

Going after Liz just seemed like a publicity stunt. And why take it out on her? Ms. Taylor had nothing to do with it.


It would be like someone trying to sue me because the coffee table I bought was stolen from their Grandfather years ago.

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I'm with Diva. What the hell were those Jews thinking just up and running without grabbing all their sh*t? Jeez, you'd think someome was rounding them up and putting them in camps or something.

"But if the family can prove prior ownership, she would have to give it back anyway under the Holocaust Victims Redress Act."

No, that was addressed. No private right to sue is established by the Act. Ms. Taylor wins hands down.