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  "path": "/news/ittai-gradel-whistleblower-in-british-museum-gem-theft-dead-1234749200/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T21:30:28.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.artforum.com",
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  "textContent": "Ittai Gradel, the Israel-born Danish gem expert who alerted the British Museum to the theft of thousands of antiquities from its collection after he discovered them for sale on eBay, died on April 28 of renal cancer. He was sixty-one. Days before his death, British Museum officials visited him in hospice and presented him with […]",
  "title": "Ittai Gradel, Whistleblower in British Museum Gem Theft, Dies at 61"
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