The film actor bought the skull at an auction in 2007 for $276,000 in a bidding war against Leonardo DiCaprio.
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According to Reuters, Cage voluntarily agreed to return the skull to Mongolia, after Preet Bharara, the USA attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil forfeiture complaint.
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Though Cage’s involvement obviously makes this much weirder and higher-profile, more than a dozen Mongolian fossils have been stolen and recovered in the past three years.
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“Cultural artifacts such as this bataar skull represent a part of Mongolian national cultural heritage”, Glenn Sorge, acting special agent-in-charge of the NY office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement.
To his credit, it sounds like Cage is fully cooperating with the authorities and is in the process of returning the skull to its home in Mongolia.
Bharara called Prokopi a “one-man black market in prehistoric fossils”.
Both Cage and the I.M. Chait Gallery in Beverley Hills have been cleared of any wrongdoing as they were not aware it had been stolen.
A representative of the actor confirmed on Tuesday that Cage had been the unwitting buyer of the so-called Bataar skull, and that he had agreed to forfeit the fossil. Who wouldn’t star in The Wicker Man if it meant getting the cash to own a legitimate piece of actual dinosaur?
The Tyrannosaurus bataar, like its more famous relative Tyrannosaurus rex, was a carnivore that lived approximately 70 million years ago.
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The exportation of dinosaur fossils has been illegal in Mongolia since 1924.
