Just spent 10 mins reading, good story but abridged version:<p>- An Italian Louvre worker, Vincenzo Perugia, stole the Mona Lisa, claiming his motivation was that the French had stolen works from Italy.<p>- Years later he attempted to give it back but claim a reward. He changed his story a few times about how he stole it.<p>- The revelation of the larger crime was that a slick con-man claimed he helped Vincenzo steal the work for the purpose of selling credible fakes to a handful of American millionaires since it was widely reported that the original was stolen.