T.S. Eliot was apparently off by a month when it comes to Kate Moss, who has had a cruel May indeed. Last Thursday, while the supermodel, boyfriend, and mother were reportedly asleep in the supermodel's North London home, burglars broke in and helped themselves to three artworks, including one Banksy portrait said to be worth $115,000.
According to the Daily Mirror, the thieves may have had “inside knowledge of the house’s layout." An unidentified 24-year-old man was incustody as a suspect in the crime as of Monday. Luckily, the criminals were unable to pilfer Moss's most valuable Banksy: earlier this month she had the notorious street artist paint a 12-by-18-foot wall mural featuring the model along with Naomi Campbell, Lily Allen, Gordon Brown, and others, commissioned for $185,000.
The art theft was not the only misfortune to befall Moss last week. A malfunctioning basement pump flooded her home with raw sewage, destroying several photographs by Mario Testino along with her shoe collection and pieces of furniture — a total of $145,000 in damage. Adding insult to injury, a set of nude portraits of her by photographer Albert Watson went unsoldat a Christie's auction in New York last week, failing to reach its estimate of $29,000-$43,000.
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