Madonna’s Haring wedding paiting

An interesting article about a stolen Madonna wedding present is featured on “The Smoking Gun” website, a peculiar yet interesting site that brings you exclusive confidential documents that can’t be found elsewhere on
the Web.
From the “Smoking Gun” archive:
The next time you’re in Madonna‘s house, ask her about that distinctive painting on the kitchen wall. It’s a rare collaborative piece by the
late artists Andy Warhol and Keith Haring and was given to Madonna as a
wedding gift when she married Sean Penn in August 1985 (the painting features a silk screen of a New York Post front page adorned with
Haring’s trademark baby figures). But three years later, the artwork was stolen from Madonna’s California home, triggering an extensive FBI
probe. The stolen property case, which started in Los Angeles and subsequently involved five other FBI offices, was opened in mid-1988, with agents interviewing Haring and
representatives of the Warhol estate. But it wasn’t until early-1990 that the FBI located the paintingó-thanks to a stroke of luck. In February 1990, a Rhode Island art dealer brought the painting to New York to have it authenticated by the Warhol estate (the dealer planned
to buy it for $40,000 and wanted to confirm that the piece was an original). But a sharp-eyed Warhol employee, who had first been contacted by the FBI in 1988, immediately called the bureau and told
agents that–amazingly–the artwork had just been left with the estate for authentication. Agents quickly seized the painting, which was eventually returned to Madonna. Nobody ever got prosecuted for the theft, but FBI agents thought that the man who tried to sell the painting to the Rhode Island dealer was “a likely suspect.”