Getty curator resigns.(Arts & Entertainment)

Byline: HUGH EAKIN New York Times

Less than four months before the grand opening of a villa housing its antiquities collection, the embattled J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles said Monday that its antiquities curator had resigned over improprieties involving a real estate deal.

The curator, Marion True, is under indictment in Italy on charges of conspiring to acquire dozens of looted antiquities for the museum, and the Getty has vigorously defended her in that case. It declined Monday to say whether it would continue to do so or make any other comment until it completed an internal investigation. Getty trustees did not return phone calls Monday.

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