After an export bar was placed on the painting and the public campaign was launched, Stunt pulled out and the seller reduced the price from £12.5m to £10m.
Under the guise of his blustery "Colbert Report" character, Stephen Colbert has launched stunt presidential bids twice, in 2008 and 2012, attempting to get on the ballot only in his native state of South Carolina.
Arron Banks, the Ukip donor who co-founded Leave.EU, says the Vote Leave strategy director, Dominic Cummings, is undermining the anti-EU side by launching stunts against business groups.
Fathers for Justice and Plane Stupid are just two of the organisations regarded as having the potential to launch a stunt in superhero costumes and any spectator found with one faces being removed from the grounds, or at the very least having the costume confiscated.
Capcom's Resident Evil 5 launches on the 13th and they've come up with a pretty novel launch day stunt.
Publishers throw glitzy launch parties featuring stunts like driving a tank down Oxford Street.
The stories of organising launch parties and stunts provided a sense of self and in, the words of my friends, "made me interesting".
The tour was launched with a stunt: art students were invited to create clothes or videos for them, with the best displayed at each venue.
The coin was rediscovered by Ms Given's children following her death in 1992, who took it to the American Numismatic Association's World Fair of Money in Baltimore in 2003, spurred on by a publicity stunt launched by former ANA governer Donn Pearlman, who was offering $1m to purchase the missing fifth specimen.
Two years ago, Universal Studios Hollywood launched a similar stunt to promote the opening of the park's new King Kong 360 3-D attraction.
The pop star's team launched a publicity stunt to hype Bieber's new video for "Beauty and a Beat" featuring Nicki Minaj.
