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Longstanding rivalry between two of the world's biggest art dealers broke into open hostilities last week when Manhattan's 110-year-old firm, M. Knoedler & Co., filed suit against its archcompetitor, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., for unfair competition growing out of wiretapping. The suit, filed in Manhattan's Federal Court, charged violation of the Federal Communications Commission Act, asked $500,000 in damages...
Knoedler's suit was an outgrowth of the conviction last December of John G. Broady, Manhattan lawyer and private eye (TIME, Dec. 19), on wiretapping charges. Among Broady's clients: a Wildenstein Vice President, Emmanuel J. Rousuck, 55. In court testimony, Rousuck -as an individual-admitted hiring Wiretapper Broady to put a bug on the telephone of Art Dealer Rudolph Heinemann, who frequently works with Knoedler's in top-drawer transactions. For a payment of $125-$!50 a week, testified Rousuck, he received recordings of Heirtemann's telephone calls over a period of some six months...
...Broady was a man of unlimited interests, according to Emmanuel J. Rouseck, a vice president of the Wildenstein Gallery, one of the world's topflight dealers in international art. For five months Rouseck paid Broady $150 a week to listen in on the conversations (in four languages) of Dr. Rudolph Heinemann, an eminent art buyer. For months...
...months; within a matter of days, however, the big deal was the talk of 5 7th street. When an antique dealer accused him of blabbing about their business deals, Heinemann, a discreet man, indignantly denied the charge. "Well," he quoted the antique dealer as saying, "Rouseck at Wildenstein asked me why I was getting all those old paintings from you-said they had better ones at Wildenstein." Rouseck denied any knowledge of three wiretaps that were discovered on the outgoing lines of Knoe-dler's, Wildenstein's No. i competitor...
After Rouseck's testimony, Wildenstein announced: "Mr. Rouseck has tendered his resignation." Shades of Al Capone. Throughout his trial Broady coolly denied any wrongdoing. All of his wiretaps, he maintained, had been strictly legal-authorized by his clients for their own telephones. He had "never heard of" the raided apartment, and besides, the whole case had been a frame-up by a rival private eye. In the course of his testimony Broady offered several new revelations. In January 1953, two months before she became Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce's telephone had been tapped, he said...