Actor Leonardo DiCaprio Turns Over Picasso Painting, Brando Oscar, works of art allegedly worth millions to the US Justice Department

The Renowned actor Leonardo DiCaprio has voluntarily surrendered several works of art worth millions of dollars and an Oscar statuette that behind belonged to Marlon Brando to the U.S. Government, as share of its ongoing psychiatry into a part laundering operation related to Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.

The works of art were reportedly gifts from Malaysian financiers joined to Riza Aziz, co-founder of Red Granite Pictures, the bureau that produced the DiCaprio-starring The Wolf of Wall Street.


The Justice Department has been gaining an investigating to determine whether Aziz assisted his father-in-anguish, Prime Minister Razak, in embezzling on peak of $4 billion, some of which was used to finance Red Granite, and several of the companys films.

The surrendered items add together: a Picasso painting, Nature Morte au Crane de Taureau, valued at more than $3 million; a Basquiat collage, Redman One, valued at at least $9 million; a Diane Arbus photograph valued at $750,000; and the Oscar Brando won for his show in On the Waterfront. The paintings and photograph were included in a 250-page forfeiture illness filed last week by the Justice Department. However, representatives for DiCaprio proclaim that the paintings were surrendered to the organization in the back the illness was filed. The Marlon Brando Oscar, a set facility from Red Granite, was not mentioned in the Justice Department sickness, but was turned more than voluntarily along gone the supplement items.

The 42-year-antiquated-fashioned actor's reps along with said that the works of art were intended for an upcoming society auction and never for DiCaprio's personal buildup.

Representatives for DiCaprio said in a avowal: Last July, something subsequently hearing of the perspectives civil pretense bordering to set loose parties functional in the making of The Wolf of Wall Street, Mr. DiCaprios representatives  on the go below his information  initiated buy into moreover the Department of Justice. This effort was to determine if there were any gifts or charitable donations originating from the parties named in the civil complaint, and to have enough part the compensation of any such gifts or donations subsequently the aid and insinuation of the approach.

The assertion continued: Prior to the paperworks filing of the civil pleading today, Mr. DiCaprio initiated recompense of these items, which were meant and well-liked by him for the direct of being included in an annual bureau auction to benefit his eponymous launch. He has as well as returned an Oscar originally won by Marlon Brando, which was unconditional to Mr. DiCaprio as a set space by Red Granite to thank him for his take steps about The Wolf of Wall Street. Mr. DiCaprio is grateful for the encouragement of the viewpoint in this effort, and continues to approach that justice is curtains in this matter.