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Sotheby's, with Christie's not far behind, has led the field in this enterprise of simoniac strip-mining. No excess, no necrophiliac vulgarity, was too great--the $54 million Van Gogh Irises that didn't really sell, the degraded spectacle of Americans hyped into bidding tens of thousands of...
The feds' investigation did not, in fact, begin with the auctioneers. In the early 1990s, the Justice Department turned its scrutiny on private dealers in an effort to nail the ones who indulged in "ring" bidding--the technique of defrauding sellers by agreeing not to bid against one another in...
What would you pay to party with SHARON STONE at Spago? Or sit with BILL CLINTON as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power--show biz and...
What would you pay to party with Sharon Stone at Spago? Or sit with Bill Clinton as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power - show biz and...
To keep legal eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like...