Stealing art is a billion-dollar industry, and it’s no secret that you have to be clever, creative, and a bit crazy to pull it off. The risks are high—felony jail time, damage to art, restitution fees, market deficiency, angry crime bosses—and the reward is hardly ever the million dollar-filled fantasy imagined, but the glamour of the art heist has fascinated humans since the beginning of time. This list is not a Hollywood throwdown: no Catherine Zeta-Jones, no Julia Roberts, no Pierce Brosnan. But if you click on, we can promise speedboats, million dollar watches, machine guns, and fake mustaches. Add that to some incredible criminal minds (and some incredibly dumb ones), and you have our list of The 50 Greatest Art Heists of All Time.
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