Giant Gold Trump Statue Held Hostage in Fight Over Cash

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Detail of a 15-foot-tall gold-leafed bronze statue of U.S. President Donald Trump, designed by sculptor Alan Cottrill, at his studio in Zanesville, Ohio, U.S., February 10, 2026.</p><p>REUTERS/Eric Coxhttps://thedailybeast-thedailybeast-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/4OGHLHGFVNHPNPZL2JE3GSEWN4.JPG?auth=9190d9b586de1298bc99b1e90f6e2e67cb5160189fa34de79e5af368ecc4ec06&smart=true&width=5012&height=2819" />
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-family-scrambles-to-cut-ties-to-giant-gold-don-colossus-statue/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-family-scrambles-to-cut-ties-to-giant-gold-don-colossus-statue/">A gold-leaf statue of President Donald Trump that’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars has been held hostage by the man who made it.

Alan Cottrill says he wouldn’t hand over the $360,000 artwork to the bosses of a memecoin until they settled a dispute over image rights, after they used it to sell their cryptocurrency by building hype and anticipation.

That excitement came crashing down when Eric Trump, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, publicly distanced the family from the coin in February.

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