Leonardo DiCaprio has voluntarily handed over Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar to the US government as part of a federal investigation into a billion dollar embezzlement scheme involving The Wolf of Wall Street.
A spokesperson for DiCaprio said he planned to auction off the lavish gifts to raise money for his charitable foundation.
“He was trying to track it down and kept hitting dead ends,” she said, adding: “It would be great to get it back.”
How Brando’s Oscar came to be the kind of item to be gifted around is the source of much speculation and mystery, with his estate executor previously saying it disappeared while the actor was still alive.