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When the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in 1911, French detectives were so baffled that their top suspect was none other than a young Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso was interrogated for the 1911 Mona Lisa theft, but not because French investigators were randomly grasping for leads. A mutual acquaintance had repeatedly looted ancient Iberian stone sculptures straight out of the Louvre and sold them to Picasso for pocket money. When the painting disappeared, the paper trail of Parisian art fencing led a magistrate straight to Picasso's apartment. More