Introducing: Stealing Superman

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It was the most unlikely artist of all time. You
hear the gossip that it could have been the butler,
could have been the security guard. Not just because of
what was stolen, it's like this almost holy relic because
it's worth so much money, but from who. He was

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just fascinated by the whole scene of walking into Nicolas
Cage's mansion and just seeing what he described as an
adult kids playground with all these you know, dinosaur fossils
around an a vintage car in the middle of the
living room. Welcome to Stealing Superman and I heart original podcast.
I'm your host Danish Sports. Last year we brought you Haleywood,

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the story of Bruce Willis buying up a town in
Idaho and the friends and enemies he made along the way.
This fall, we've got a shocking four color crime saga.
It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure. At a

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New Year's Eve party in a palatial bel Air estate,
someone snatched cagees priceless comments but who. There were so
many people working for him. It's fascinating. He had a staff,
I would say, of just a personal staff, maybe of
around I mean, it was crazy. It's hard to keep

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track of everybody. Police were baffled, collectors were shocked, and
so began a decade long search for the holy Grail
of superheroes, one involving secret rooms, police stings, and a
mystery did Cage know the thief? The fact he went

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to the day lack first rather than the place as
an investigator, That were indikaite to me that Nicholas Cage
knew more than what he let on and he didn't
want really a lot being my public. I think they
should make a movie of this and just talk about
all the weirdos that worked for him, and like who
could have done this? And maybe it turns out that
in the end he did it to himself. About that,

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it feels like fiction because someone targeted this very specific,
very talented actor and stole something that is very specific
to his interests, but that we're all aware of as
if it was a monai and there's not very interesting story.
I mean, we could go down the rabbit hole and
that he's colleague he used to work for. She was

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a police detective. She got convicted of murder and she's
now in jail. Show in a life sentence listen to
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