An artist's bar of soap, named Clean Hands, made from fat liposuctioned from Silvio Berlusconi sold for $18k.
Silvio Berlusconi underwent liposuction at a clinic in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino in 2004.
An employee of the clinic is said to have given the fat removed from the former Prime Minister of Italy to the Geneva-based artist, Gianni Motti.
Motti used the fat to create a bar of whitish soap 1.8 by 8.2 by 4.9 centimetres.
The work is entitled Mani Pulite - Clean Hands – the expression used for the nationwide Italian investigation into political corruption in the 1990s, in which Berlusconi was also implicated.
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