In 2006 she gave $200 million to New York University to help create the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, which operates in a townhouse her foundation bought near the Met.
White and Levy had begun amassing their extensive collection of more than 700 antiquities in the 1970s.
Beginning in 1993, the couple agreed to relinquish 16 items after claims they had been looted from an ancient Roman site in England.
In 2008, White surrendered 10 objects to Italy and two to Greece.
It had been part of the “Glories of the Past” exhibition at the Met in 1990.
Persons:
White, Levy, Giacomo Medici, Robin Symes, Eucharides, “, ”, David Gill
Organizations:
Brooklyn Museum, New, Botanical, Lincoln Center, New York University, for, Carnegie, Met, Centre for Heritage, University of Kent
Locations:
England, Italy, Greece, Italian, British, Turkey