Eleonor Gay Courter, an 80-year-old US novelist, and her husband, Philip, are facing potential trial in France for the illegal sale of gold bars from the 18th-century shipwreck Le Prince de Conty. French prosecutors moved to take the case to court, alleging that they aided in selling the bullion online for a diver who had plundered it. The shipwreck, discovered in 1974, contained significant artifacts, including gold bars and porcelain, but official excavations ceased after 1985 due to storm damage. In 2018, a suspicious online sale led to the recovery of the gold by US authorities and its subsequent return to France in 2022.
Eleonor Gay Courter and her husband, Philip, are accused of illegally selling gold bars from the shipwrecked 18th-century French ship, Le Prince de Conty.
French prosecutors have requested that the case regarding the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from the Prince de Conty shipwreck be tried in court.
The gold was believed to have been stolen by a French diver decades ago, leading to allegations against Courter and her husband for their involvement in the online sale.
Inquiries revealed that the gold bars were possibly linked to a suspicious sale intercepted by French authorities, leading to their retrieval in 2022.
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