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U.S. Border Agents Seize $18 Million of Fake Gibson Guitars
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it had seized 3,000 fake Gibson guitars, calling it one of the biggest fake instrument busts in history.
“These guitars you see on display around and behind me may look real, but trust and believe that they are not,” said Africa Bell, Port Director of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport, at the press conference revealing the stash on Tuesday morning. “This is really emotional and personal for us because our teams have generations who’ve dedicated their entire lives to making these instruments,” Beth Heidt, Gibson’s chief marketing officer, added. A rare vintage one is even more expensive, with a 1959 Les Paul — the same year and model classic rock stars like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton played — considered the holy grail of six strings, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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