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He Faked the Past: How an IQ-165 Conman Rewrote Museum Archives
He Faked the Past: How an IQ-165 Conman Rewrote Museum Archives
A single classified ad reading "Genuine Fakes, nineteenth and twentieth century paintings from one hundred and fifty pounds" led to a fraud that cost four million pounds and six months of a London court's time. A man with an IQ of 165 quietly replaced archive pages and supplied forged provenance that let paintings sell for tens of thousands - but who really controlled the deception?
In this episode, we tell how a struggling painter's magazine advertisement met a charismatic fraudster and how their partnership created a paper…
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