Liz Taylor wins court battle to keep Van Gogh painting

A US appeals court has backed the dismissal of a lawsuit demanding that Dame Elizabeth Taylor turn over a Vincent van Gogh painting once confiscated by Nazis.

Four descendants of the late Margarete Mauthner, whose possessions were seized by the Nazis after she fled Germany in 1939, claimed in a 2004 lawsuit that Dame Elizabeth failed to review the ownership history of View of the Asylum of Saint-Remy before acquiring the painting more than 40 years ago.