Speaker 1: Hello, listeners, it's my pleasure to invite you to listen
Speaker 1: to a new true crime podcast from Cavalry Audio and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. It's called Art Fraud, and it exposes
Speaker 1: the single greatest art crime in US history. Executive produced
Speaker 1: and narrated by Alec Baldwin. If you like stories about
Speaker 1: rich people getting cond out of their money while also
Speaker 1: being immersed in that strange and beautiful world of the
Speaker 1: mid century masters that put the abstract Expressionist movement on
Speaker 1: the map, then Art Fraud is the podcast for you.
Speaker 1: I'm about to play the trailer while you're listening. You
Speaker 1: can follow Art Fraud on the I Heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy
Speaker 1: Art Fraud. The art world it is essentially a money
Speaker 1: laundering business. The best fakes are still hanging on people's balls.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't even know or suspect that they're fakes.
Speaker 1: I'm 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 rothco.
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 each thing. It was an incredible
Speaker 1: mans 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 it was so garish
Speaker 1: and so not by Rothko. You've got to prove that
Speaker 1: the paintings are fake, and you've got to prove that
Speaker 1: someone who sold them knew that they were fake. There
Speaker 1: were an unusually large umber of prominent people who seemingly
Speaker 1: were going to stand by the paintings and say that
Speaker 1: they were real. You knew the painting was fake. Um.
Speaker 1: Listen to Art Fraud on the I Heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.