'Fake heiress' launches show while under house arrest in New York

Sorokin's former lawyer, who faces charges of financial crimes herself, has accused the notorious scammer with withholding payments

Angela Catherine Hamblin, who has been hiding out in a small village in Scotland for over a decade, is being extradited to the US

The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years

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

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

Robert Newland worked for Philbrick’s secondary market business Modern Collections before stints at Hauser & Wirth and Superblue

Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi

Philbrick pleaded guilty to an $86m fraud in November in one of the art world's highest-profile criminal lawsuits in decades

Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers

The authors’ overview of the types of art crime includes serious analysis—and some entertaining tales

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

Attorney general claims the auction house created and used tax exemption certificates that falsely presented the buyer as an art dealer in order to dodge payments. Sotheby's says it will continue to contest the case

Modi, who is currently held in Wandsworth Prison in London, is wanted for allegedly defrauding a state bank of £729m

An heir of an early owner claims that family members conspired to have it sold without his knowledge

US collector Linda Hickox is seeking to recover the work which was sold via broker by the now jailed art dealer Timothy Sammons

The rise of the online art market means due diligence on purchasing art is becoming increasingly complex

Authorities have accused Erdal Dere and Faisal Khan of running an alleged scheme to swindle buyers by using fake provenances

The dealer was arrested by the FBI on the Pacific island Vanuatu last month and transferred into federal custody

The Swiss art dealer had been accused of fraud and money laundering by the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev—a related case in Geneva remains active

London and Miami-based Philbrick, on the run since October, was arrested by FBI on Vanuatu on Thursday

The interior decorator was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for buying art from galleries, auction houses and collectors using his wealthy clients’ credentials

New racketeering suit against the disgraced New York art dealer, brought by a Spanish collector regarding paintings by Picasso and Léger, gets off to a mixed start

Lawyer Petra Warrington on how to protect your business if you are holding online auctions, exhibiting and selling works on Instagram, or entering into sale contracts by email

American Image Art founder alleges certain works are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted

The Munich-based dealer and collector is also due to stand trial in London for allegedly stealing £1.1m in Kusama pumpkin sale

Igor and Olga Toporovsky linked to controversial show of Russian avant-garde works in Ghent

A spate of fraudulent agents in the dock this year give the art trade a bad image—even if only a few individuals are involved

Timothy Sammons misled clients over sales of works by artists including Picasso

British art dealer sentenced to up to 12 years after pleading guilty to fraud and grand larceny in the New York State Supreme Court