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Art & Crime: Masterminds of Massive Forgery Ring That Snookered Steve Martin Receive Light Sentences After Charming Court and Public


 Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi were responsible for concocting and selling $22 million in forged art.

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Art & Crime: Possibly Unhinged Sommelier Pleads Guilty to Brazen (and Sockless) Picasso Theft


 Mark Lugo was sentenced to 16 months in jail for a casual yet brazen San Francisco heist.

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Art & Crime: Prominent Art Deco Collector Claude Dray Killed in Mysterious Shooting Outside Paris


 The real-estate developer’s collection sold for $76 million at Christie’s in 2006. Foul play has not been ruled out.

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Art & Crime: Escape Artist: Wanted Voina Art Anarchist Outfoxes Russian Police Again, Fleeing On His Bike


 After a meeting with German journalists, Voina members Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalia Sokol were accosted by police — so Vorotnikov pulled a Jason Bourne.

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Art & Crime: Forgery For Dummies: British Art Teacher Convicted of Selling Fake Picassos Had an "Art Forger’s Handbook"


 Police found how-to guides to art forgery in his studio, along with 19 fake paintings.

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Art & Crime: Ninja SpongeBob Artist Hit With $5 Million Class Action Lawsuit Alleging He Trained an Army of Forgers


 Gallerist Margaret Howell claims that former Nickelodeon artist Todd White perpetrated systematic fraud on galleries and fans.

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Art & Crime: I Threw All the Art in the Garbage, Claims Accomplice in $134 Million Paris Museum Heist


 An accomplice to the theft of five paintings from a Parisian museum confessed that he tore up the works and put them in a trashcan.

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Art & Crime: Three Arrested for Brazen $134 Million Heist of Masterpieces From Paris’s Modern Art Museum


 The paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani, and Léger remain missing.

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Art & Crime: In Germany’s Largest Art Forgery Trial, Master Swindler Laments Only That His Fakes Were "Too Good"


 In a Cologne courtroom, Wolfgang Beltracchi also talked about his dislike of the art market and his youthful hallucinogenic drug use.

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Art & Crime: Mohammad Cartoonist Lars Vilks Was True Target of Foiled Terrorist Attack at Swedish Art Biennial


 Leaked trial documents state that the alleged plotters had been searching for Vilks at the Göteborg Biennial, armed with a knife.

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