In Georgetown, property appraisals for 2024 have been mailed out, and despite the region's cooling housing market, the average taxable value of single-family homes rose by about 3%.
A painting with an estimated value of only $17,000 two years ago, sold for almost $14 million after experts decided it didn’t just look like a Rembrandt — it was one.
The ruling in Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud case could cost him all his available cash. The judge said that the former president’s “complete lack of contrition” bordered on pathological.
The auction house is accused of helping an art dealer who the oligarch says defrauded him in several sales. A Sotheby’s specialist involved in some of the transactions defended his conduct.
The penalty was well over the $250 million that the attorney general, Letitia James, had estimated in the fall of 2022, when she sued the former president.