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Besides "Three Pairs of Shoes," the alleged fakes include one of the Dutch master's famous Sunflowers series-sold at auction in 1987 to a Japanese firm for $39.5 million-and two self-portraits, including one owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
Besides "Three Pairs of Shoes," the alleged fakes include one of the Dutch master's famous Sunflowers series-sold at auction in 1987 to a Japanese firm for $39.5 million-and two self-portraits, including one owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
Besides "Three Pairs of Shoes," the alleged fakes include one of the Dutch master's famous Sunflowers series-sold at auction in 1987 to a Japanese firm for $39.5 million-and two self-portraits, including one owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
...Fayed also holds a long-term lease on the Paris villa that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in after the duke abdicated the British throne to marry a commoner. Al Fayed has spent $40 million restoring the villa and its contents, although he announced that Sotheby's auction house will be selling 40,000 items from it. Al Fayed's brother owns the elite British clothier Turnbull and Asser...
...more for the princess than she could do for them. With Al Fayeds' seemingly endless supply of mansions, boats, helicopters and bodyguards, Dodi had the material resources to provide her with the stability and privacy that her life was so lacking in. The elder Al Fayed's decision to auction off the contents of the Windsor villa set off speculation that he was cleaning it out so that Dodi and Di could marry and move in. There would have been rich symbolism in the two of them living together in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's former home, proving...