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Banksy stolen in raid at Kate Moss’ London home
The portrait, worth £80,000, was stolen as model slept after attending Top Shop party
A Banksy portrait worth £80,000 has been stolen from the home of supermodel Kate Moss while she slept.
The raid at Moss's home in Maida Vale happened in the early hours of Thursday while she, her boyfriend - Kills guitarist Jamie Hince - and her mother, Linda, were asleep upstairs.
Three artworks, including the Banksy, were taken by thieves, who apparently got into the house by climbing over a fence and into the back garden. They fled after being disturbed.
It is not the first time burglars have got away with a Banksy in London this month. Earlier in the week police released CCTV footage of a man and a woman smashing a window of a gallery in New Compton Street, Soho, and grabbing two Banksy prints worth £9,000 each.
The piece missing from Moss's home is one of several owned by the 36-year-old supermodel.
The raid took place after Moss attended the launch party of a new Top Shop store in Knightsbridge, where her latest collection for the fashion chain was unveiled.
The model has rarely been out of the headlines in the last few days. Earlier in the week Hole singer Courtney Love claimed she had a lesbian fling with Moss in the 1990s and today a series of 14 black and white photos of the mother-of-one, taken by photgrapher Albert Watson in the early 90s, go under the hammer at Christie's in London - they are expected to fetch as much as £30,000.
Meanwhile, police said they have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the burglary. ·
