Italy has every right to confiscate and demand the return of the Greek bronze statue of the Athlete of Fano, attributed to Lysippus, which is currently in the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, California. This was unanimously ruled by the European Court of Human Rights, rejecting the appeal filed by the Paul Getty Foundation for violation of property protection. In its ruling, the Strasbourg Court thus recognized the legitimacy of the action taken by the Italian authorities to recover the artwork that was found in the waters of the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Marche, in 1964. After various vicissitudes, it had been purchased by the Getty Foundation in 1977 and eventually landed in the Malibu museum.