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McDormand’s Oscar briefly taken at ball
A man was arrested and is accused of stealing Frances McDormand’s Oscar after the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Los Angeles police said.
Terry Bryant, 47, was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft, said Officer Rosario Herrera, a police spokeswoman.
“After some brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited. They celebrated the reunion with a double cheeseburger from In-N-Out Burger,” McDormand’s publicist, Simon Halls, told The Associated Press.
McDormand received the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
The Oscar statuette was allegedly stolen during the Governors Ball after-party, authorities said. Bryant had a ticket for the event, Herrera said.
According to New York Times reporter Cara Buckley, chef Wolfgang Puck’s photographer snapped a photo of a man in a tuxedo walking off with McDormand’s Oscar. The photographer also stopped the man and got the Oscar back, much to McDormand’s relief.
Security personnel searched for the man, but he had disappeared. “Apparently Frances has said to let him go,” Buckley tweeted.
Bryant was being held on $20,000 bail Monday morning, police said.