Laszlo Toth

Male, Person

1940 –

63

Who is Laszlo Toth?

Laszlo Toth was a Hungarian-born Australian geologist. He achieved worldwide notoriety when he vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà statue on 21 May 1972. Toth was not charged with any criminal offence after the incident. He was hospitalized in Italy for two years. On his release, he was immediately deported to Australia where he lived the rest of his life. Toth died in a nursing home in Strathfield, New South Wales on 11 September 2012.

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Born
1940
Hungary
Nationality
  • Hungary

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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