Art fraud
Embattled New York adviser Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients out of $6.5m
Schiff will be sentenced on one count of wire fraud early next year
Footloose fraudster Anna Sorokin voted off Dancing with the Stars
While she inspired Inventing Anna on Netflix, Sorokin struggled to reinvent herself as a top-tier dancer during her short stint on the reality competition show
Former Trump adviser—and Russian state TV commentator—charged with money laundering through art and antiques
Dimitri Simes and his wife Anastasia have been charged with three counts of violating US sanctions, including money laundering through the acquisition of art
From cha-ching to cha-cha: Anna Sorokin shows off bedazzled ankle monitor in Dancing with the Stars debut
The real-life inspiration for ‘Inventing Anna’ says she got permission from ICE authorities to participate in the reality competition
Who should be able to profit from art criminals’ stories?
Television series linked to convicted fraudsters such as Inigo Philbrick and Anna Delvey raise ethical and legal questions
‘Shamefully duped’: friend of convicted art fraudster Inigo Philbrick spills the beans in new memoir
In the warts-and all publication, Orlando Whitfield discusses his 15-year friendship with Philbrick while offering insights into the world of art dealing
Art fraudster Inigo Philbrick’s glamorous rise and dramatic fall to become television series
A production company working with HBO has optioned a memoir by Philbrick’s former friend and business partner Orlando Whitfield
Inigo Philbrick, art dealer who went to prison for fraud, is free
In 2022, Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to an $86m fraud
Orlando Museum of Art drops lawsuit against owners of allegedly fake Basquiats
The museum, which is operating at a significant deficit amid mounting crisis management fees, will focus its legal efforts on its former director
Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m
Michael Maurello is also expected to pay back what he he stole from the museum
The Gray Market: Art fraud has hijacked the conversation again, but calls for stronger regulation miss the bigger picture
Is regulation a wonder drug for curing the art market of its chronic fraud problem? Our columnist explains why that thinking is a myth
Ex-dealer Robert Newland sentenced to nearly two years in prison for role in Inigo Philbrick’s art frauds
"He did his job, but his job turned out to be assisting a criminal fraud," a New York district court judge said
Detroit-area photography dealer pleads guilty to $1.5m art fraud scheme
Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year after an FBI investigation
Rogues’ gallery? Three reasons why the art market is vulnerable to wrongdoing
Lavish lifestyles, misplaced confidence and the wish to keep up with billionaire clients can all wreak financial havoc
Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme
Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice
Former Art Institute of Chicago employee pleads guilty to embezzling $2m from the museum
Michael Maurello may face up to 20 years in prison for his financial misdeeds at the museum
Hong Kong heiress sues gallery over alleged £500,000 Banksy fraud
Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist
Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada
Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess
Canadian police uncover 'biggest art fraud in world history'
Eight suspects are arrested and more than 1,000 works seized following investigation into forgeries of paintings by the Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau
Charm, pedigree, contacts: how to dupe the art market
Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in
British art dealer Robert Newland pleads guilty to conspiring with Inigo Philbrick to defraud collectors and financiers
Newland was arrested in the UK in February and extradited to the United States in September, where he admitted his role in the $86m scheme for which Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison
Dealer Inigo Philbrick sentenced to seven years in prison
Philbrick pleaded guilty to an $86m fraud in November in one of the art world's highest-profile criminal lawsuits in decades
Netflix miniseries chronicling the infamous ‘Soho scammer’ Anna Delvey chooses flash over substance
‘Inventing Anna’ falls flat when it comes to depicting the art world
Is the art market corrupt to the core? Balderdash.
An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree
A swindler’s playground: why is the art market so appealing to fraudsters?
Indian antiquities dealer Monson Mavunkal is currently in custody following a string of fraud allegations, including trying to sell a walking stick he said belonged to Moses. But he is not the first con artist to target the art world
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
'I did it for the money, your honour': art dealer Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty to fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison
The 34-year-old was arrested while in hiding on the Pacific island Vanuatu
Former dealer Angela Gulbenkian is sentenced to three and a half years for defrauding art clients
Charges involved sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture that was never delivered and the theft of £50,000 that a friend had given her to invest