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Dick Ellis,FBI,Scotland Yard,Virginia Curry
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Dick Ellis,FBI,Scotland Yard,Virginia Curry
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Retired FBI Special Agent Virginia Curry to be featured speaker in Los Angeles at the Society of Television Engineer's Holiday Dinner
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| Virginia Curry with Richard Ellis earlier this year |
Retired FBI Special Agent Virginia Curry will be the featured speaker for the Society of Television Engineer's Holiday dinner in Burbank on Thursday December 15. Curry's talk, "The Fine Art of Crime - Hollywood versus Reality" will talk about art sleuths, those elite detectives who specialize in investigating and solving art crimes - brazen thefts, forgeries, looting and vandalism around the world.
Curry is a charter member of the FBI Art Crimes Task Force. Virginia is one of a small number of detectives who specialize in investigating art crimes. Together with her Scotland Yard colleague, Richard Ellis, Virginia has also been involved in a number of international art related criminal investigations that read like Hollywood scripts. Her experience has also included studio assets, such as stolen animation cells, piracy and "genuine" (fake) propos from famous films.
During her service with the FBI Mrs. Curry successfully completed many major art crimes investigations and undercover assignments. She has been honored for her achievements by both the FBI and the City of Los Angeles. Mrs. Curry has represented the FBI at various national and international symposiums concerning cultural patrimony issues, and has also served as liaison to other national law enforcement agencies, including the Carabinieri of Italy and La Guardia Civil of Spain. Among other awards, Mrs. Curry received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles for recovering Native American artwork stolen from the Southwest Museum. Virginia was also a consultant to the Getty Museum on the Object ID project.
Mrs. Curry holds a graduate degree in Gemology from the Gemological Institute of America and a Masters Degree in Italian as well as Spanish Literature. She is currently completing a Masters Program in Art History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
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