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...Aryeh: "Faberge made very few Imperial eggs, and they are all masterpieces. The one I opened in Switzerland was junk." Christie's officials insisted the egg was genuine. After months of haggling, Christie's sued Aryeh. Finally, the auction house produced a letter from British Art Expert A. Kenneth Snowman, the world's leading authority on Faberge, who declared the egg "undoubtedly" an Imperial Faberge. Aryeh paid the $250,000, plus $200,000 in lawyer's fees, and took...
...weeks before the auction, Christie's New York president, Christopher Burge, told Aryeh that the house would not sell his egg. The reason was that Snowman now said it was not an Imperial egg but rather one of Faberge's pretty but less valuable baubles. Other experts noted that several awkward features, including a protruding hinge, indicated that the egg had been embellished by some jeweler other than Faberge. Aryeh then demanded the return of his original $250,000. Christie's refused, and two weeks ago he sued...
SENTENCED. Sean Penn, 25, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and newlywed husband of trash-flash Rock Singer Madonna; to a $100 fine and a suspended 180-day jail term, after he pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a reporter and a photographer who were stalking the couple last June; in Nashville...
...Witness, was directed by Australian Peter Weir; this summer's runaway "Gook" buster, Rambo: First Blood Part II, was helmed by the Greek immigrant George Pan Cosmatos. Indeed, when America wants to cauterize its own psychology or psychopathy onscreen these days -- in Birdy or The Falcon and the Snowman, in The Killing Fields or Alamo Bay -- chances are it will call on a foreign director to perform the surgery...
ENGAGED. Madonna Louise Ciccone, 26, belly-button-baring rock phenomenon (Like a Virgin) and movie actress (Desperately Seeking Susan); and Sean Penn, 24, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and her steady of several months. The wedding, scheduled for late summer, will be the first for both...