Zanesville sculptor Alan Cottrill put the final touches – gold leaf gilding – on a 15-foot-tall bronze statue of President Donald Trump three months ago but he's been holding it hostage until he gets full payment.
"It's in an undisclosed location in Muskingum County, Ohio," Cottrill said. "I don't say any more than that."
Cottrill is in an ongoing payment dispute with $PATRIOT, a cryptocurrency group that commissioned the work in August 2024. The statue features Trump pumping his fist in the air following a July 2024 assassination attempt in western Pennsylvania.
Cottrill said he's been paid $300,000 for the piece, as agreed, and an additional $60,000 for the gold leafing. The hang up is over a copyright infringement when the crypto group used images of his original artwork to sell crypto tokens, he said.
Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project...
Thousands of people from across the country descended on Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on Saturday....
Donald Trump may agree to drop his massive $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in...
After several months of heated arguments over whether the Democratic National Committee (DNC) should release its...
