Contemporary Use
The statue used to be on the seal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), one of the oldest associations of plastic surgeons in the world.
In February 2010, the German magazine, Focus, featured a doctored image of this Venus giving Europe the middle finger, which resulted in a defamation lawsuit against the journalists and the publication. They were found not guilty by the Greek court.
An alternative explanation for the loss of her arms is given in the film Carry on Cleo.
The untranslatable (into English) joke 'Ceux de Milo sont venus' appears in the French version of Asterix at the Olympic Games.
A plot to steal the statue figures at the center of the 1966 spoof spy film The Last of the Secret Agents.
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