Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    3 days ago

    It’s so funny to see a grifter crash out like that. Ah we need more of this. Legit thinking of edging grifters into unsustainable businesses might be the highest return meme of this decade.

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      I heard the main reason people didn’t want to buy this is that it doesn’t adequately reflect Charlie Kirk’s towering stature in the world. If he made a 100-foot-high version in gold, Elon Musk told me he’d personally pay billions for it.