Leonardo DiCaprio spent years as a meme as he journeyed to get an Oscar of his own, and now the 44-year-old is being forced to hand over an Oscar in his possession to the feds.
Don’t worry, though, it’s not the golden trophy he earned for his role in 2015’s The Revenant. It’s actually Marlon Brando’s 1954 Oscar for On the Waterfront.
DiCaprio was gifted the Oscar by Malaysian financier Jho Low, who originally bought the Oscar for $600,000 at an auction.
DiCaprio was also nominated for an Oscar for his role in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, a film which Low financed. The problem? According to The New York Times, Low is being accused by prosecutors of committing fraud against an investment fund for billions of dollars.
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