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Kienholz was buried in a Kienholz installation: "His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole."
(10 June 1994)
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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 29th of November 1971 55 years, 7 months and 21 days ago |
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49-year-old entrepreneur Theodor Albrecht is kidnapped by lawyer Hans Joachim Ollenburg and his accomplice Paul Kron in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Albrecht was released 17 days later after paying a ransom of seven million Deutsche Mark. His kidnappers were eventually caught by authorities but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht later successfully claimed the ransom as a tax deductible business expense in court. |
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