[6] Napoleon's biographer, Philip Dwyer, calls the claim that Antommarchi cut off the penis "highly fanciful".
[7] The alleged penis passed into the possession of Napoleon's chaplain, who smuggled it out of St. Helena to his home on Corsica.
[11] A urologist and artifact collector named John K. Lattimer purchased the item in 1977 for $3,000 (equivalent to $15,084 in 2023) and it is currently owned by his daughter.
[2][4][5][10] The preserved penis was described by Judith Pascoe in The New York Times as "barely recognizable as a human body part" and its authenticity is unclear.
[8][5] A documentary that aired on Channel 4, Dead Famous DNA, described it as "very small" and measured it to be 1.0 inch (2.5 cm).