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Sculptor Of Wall Street Bull Says 'Fearless Girl' Horns In On His Work

Arturo Di Modica is not happy that the Fearless Girl now staring down his Charging Bull has effectively turned it into a villain. He and his lawyer are now asking that the new statue be removed.

So far in her young life, New York City's Fearless has drawn countless tourists, a metric ton of media coverage and its fair share of praise as a symbol of the fight for gender equity — so much, in fact, that the statue staring down the financial district's famous recently got a new lease on life, .

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