$12M gold toilet sold at auction
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A golden toilet and several Gustav Klimt artworks fetched a combined $404.5 million at auctions Tuesday night.
A gold toilet that fetched $12.1m (£9.3m) at auction was bought by Ripley's Believe It or Not!, after its first casting was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019. America, created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, is a fully functional toilet, made from more than 15st 13lb (101.2kg) of solid 18-carat gold.