Inigo Philbrick

But I mean, one thing that we can openly talk about, for example, as a brief example of that, if you're interested in learning more about these sort of cases, is a book that I recently read called All That Glitters.

It's by this man named Orlando Whitfield, and it is about this other man called Inigo Philbrick.

And it is a very interesting case study, I'd say, in what the art world maybe not anymore can be.

I'm not sure how much regulations have changed since all of that happened.

That was quite straightforward.

And then I was in the second year of writing my novel, Hot Young Things, which is coming out next year, which was sort of loosely inspired by Inigo Philbrick, who was like the biggest art scammer in history.

He was like selling shares and shares of the same painting.

And nobody knew because they're so, these people just buy the art and then put it in a vault, like a temperature control vault somewhere, never even bother looking at it.

He's now been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Inigo Philbrick was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court by Judge Sidney Stein.

He pleaded guilty last November to a single count of wire fraud for conducting a multi-year scheme to defraud individuals and entities to finance his art business.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a release that his success as an art dealer was built on brazen lies that included concealed ownership interests, fake documents, and an invented art collector.