Wealthy French art dealer Guy Wildenstein and seven others were acquitted of tax fraud charges on Thursday thanks to a legal loophole the Paris court acknowledged might not be understood by the general public. Four Wildenstein family members and four of their financiers and lawyers were accused of deliberately understating to tax authorities the real…
Members of a French-American Jewish art-dealing dynasty went on trial in a case that could see authorities demand $600 million in back taxes. Guy Wildenstein, 70, the heir to his family’s New York art empire, went on trial Monday. He faces up to 10 years in prison for storing a large percentage of his inherited…
Paris art dealer and racehorse breeder Guy Wildenstein faces up to seven years in prison for harboring missing artworks. Should the Israeli government intervene in the country’s bookselling business? Nahma Sandrow and Arthur S. Leonard weigh in on Joseph Dorman’s documentary, “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness.” Jacob Silverman, Leil Leibovitz and Mike Reddy wonder…
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