YDT 2021-1 Soru=29

The underlined word ‘stardom’ in the passage is closest in meaning to ----.

In 1911, the Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum
came to global stardom when she became the victim of
one the most recognised art thefts in history. For two
years the whereabouts of the painting by the great
Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci remained a mystery.
Then in November 1913, the thief named Vincenzo
Peruggia contacted an art dealer in Italy and offered to
bring him the painting for a reward of 500,000 lire.
Peruggia had moved to Paris in 1908 and had worked at
the Louvre for some time. Dressed in a white smock
worn by Louvre employees, he had hidden inside the
gallery until it closed for the night. He then removed the
painting from its frame and strolled out with it hidden
under his smock when the museum opened as usual
the following morning. The theft was genius in its
simplicity – Peruggia, in his work clothes, had attracted
no notice and had been out of the area by the time the
theft was realised. He was arrested, but unfortunately
served only eight months in prison thanks to a
psychiatrist who testified that he was ‘intellectually
deficient’.