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    Alec Baldwin Is Hosting a New True Crime Podcast Called ‘Art Fraud’ About the Knoedler Forgery Scandal

    The podcast delves into what might be the biggest scandal ever to rock the U.S. art scene.

    By Sarah Cascone, Feb 1, 2022

  • Crime

    The Founder of Netscape Has Returned $35 Million Worth of Looted Cambodian Antiquities

    James H. Clark bought the works between 2003 and 2008.

    By Sarah Cascone, Jan 13, 2022

  • Crime

    Taiwan Has Pulled Artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung From the Venice Biennale After a String of Sexual Assault Allegations

    Prosecutors in Taiwan have stepped in to investigate the allegations made online, but no official charges have yet been filed.

    By Vivienne Chow, Jan 13, 2022

  • Crime

    Four Italian Collectors on Instagram Have Been Unmasked as Catfish Accounts. Was It a Scheme to Pump Emerging Artists?

    Lawyers are now investigating whether any crimes were committed by the fake accounts.

    By Kate Brown, Jan 10, 2022

  • Crime

    In a Landmark Restitution, the U.S. Returns 200 Looted Antiquities From Top Museums and Private Collections to Italy

    Fun fact: one of the sculptures was linked to Kim Kardashian.

    By Sarah Cascone, Dec 17, 2021

  • Crime

    Billionaire Investor Michael Steinhardt Is Forced to Surrender $70 Million in Art and Agree Never to Collect Antiquities Again

    After a grand jury investigation, the collector surrendered 180 stolen objects worth a combined $70 million. No criminal charges were filed.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 6, 2021

  • Crime

    Christian Rosa, the Fallen Art Star Accused of Selling Forged Pettibon Paintings, Has Reportedly Been Arrested in Portugal

    After going into hiding abroad, an Instagram post by the artist’s girlfriend may have given his location away.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 6, 2021

  • Crime

    Fifty Years Ago, a Thief Stole Antique Firearms From More Than a Dozen Museums. Now He’s Going to Jail—For One Day

    Decades after his crime spree, Thomas Gavin was caught trying to sell a stolen $175,000 American Revolutionary War rifle for just $4,000.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 30, 2021

  • Crime

    Decades After a U.S. Soldier Took Them Home as a Souvenir, Long-Lost Artworks Return to Poland With the Help of the Monuments Men

    The drawings had been looted from the National Museum of Warsaw and taken to Fischhorn Castle in Austria.

    By Amah-Rose Abrams, Nov 8, 2021

  • Crime

    In a Shift, Notorious Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Set to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges in Federal Court This Week

    It remains to be seen what type of prison sentence is handed down.

    By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 1, 2021

  • Crime

    Manhattan’s D.A. Returns 248 Antiquities to India That Were Caught Up in the Investigation of Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor

    It is the largest group of historical objects to be returned to the country.

    By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 29, 2021

  • Crime

    A Serial Art Thief Has Been Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Stealing a Van Gogh and Frans Hals Worth a Combined $20 Million

    Neither painting has been recovered, a factor that played into judges' decision to give the maximum sentence.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 27, 2021

  • Crime

    Robert ‘Bobby’ Gentile, Long Fingered by the FBI as a Suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Dies at 85

    "His passing might make people less inhibited about talking," says the museum's chief investigator.

    By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2021

  • Crime

    New York Dealer Gets Busted for Selling Hundreds of Brazenly Fake ‘Cookie-Cutter’ Antiquities, Says Manhattan D.A.

    Authorities have been homing in on looted artifacts. Then they got a tip about fake ones.

    By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 26, 2021

  • Crime

    Alleged Mafioso Raffaele Imperiale, Who Was Linked to a Van Gogh Museum Heist 20 Years Ago, Has Been Arrested in Dubai

    Two paintings stolen from the museum in 2002 were found stashed away in a property owned by Imperiale.

    By Naomi Rea, Aug 23, 2021

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