Dmitry Rybolovlev: the oligarch who lost a billion in the art market
Dmitry Rybolovlev built a multibillion-dollar fortune and navigated the vagaries of Putin's Russia. But the art market was his undoing.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev built a multibillion-dollar fortune and navigated the vagaries of Putin's Russia. But the art market was his undoing.
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.
Lawyers for Sotheby's cast the Russian billionaire as a victim of his own making
An adviser to a Russian billionaire asserted in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he and his boss had been tricked by a Swiss art dealer into wild
An adviser to Dmitry Rybolovlev said the opinions of an expert from the auction house were used to persuade him to buy overpriced art. Sotheby’s said it was not part of any scheme.