Speaker 1: The art world. It is essentially a money laundering business.
Speaker 1: The best fakes are still hanging on people's walls. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't even know or suspect that their face. I'm
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin and this is a podcast about deception, greed
Speaker 1: and forgery in the art world. I just walked in
Speaker 1: and saw this bright red painting presuming to be a rothko.
Speaker 1: Of course, art forgeries only happen because there's money to
Speaker 1: be made, a lot of money. I'm listening to how
Speaker 1: what they're paying for these things. It was an incredible
Speaker 1: man of money. We sent him a check for one million,
Speaker 1: one thousand, but he said to us that he thought
Speaker 1: the picture was now worth three million, and he was
Speaker 1: gonna sue us for that much money. The art market
Speaker 1: is ripe for cons because it's inherently subjective. I just
Speaker 1: couldn't even look at it because as it was so
Speaker 1: garish and so not by Rothkoe. You've got to prove
Speaker 1: that the paintings are fake, and you've got to prove
Speaker 1: that someone who sold them knew that they were fake.
Speaker 1: There were an unusually large number of prominent people who
Speaker 1: seemingly were going to stand by the paintings and say
Speaker 1: that they were real. You knew the painting was fake. UM.
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