LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Times reported that the former J. Paul Getty Trust antiquities curator Marion True complained that the Getty “left her to carry the burden for its purchase of apparently looted ancient art.” The Times stated that Marion True had written a letter to the Getty. Marion True is currently on trial in Rome charged with trafficking looted objects. The Getty has accepted to return around 30 antiquities to Italy and Greece. In her letter True complains that The Getty returns the items without making a public statement to support her.

She wrote that the press and prosecutors make it seem that, "I was in charge of the Getty, made the decisions, wrote the checks and swanned around Europe looking for archeological sites to plunder. No Getty colleague, supervisor, officer or legal representative has stepped forward to challenge publicly this distorted scenario."