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#346 - The $450 Million Da Vinci Conspiracy & CIA Psyops Behind Modern Art | Giampiero Ambrosi

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Giampiero Ambrosi is a writer, journalist, and producer of documentary films such as "Bad Influence" on Netflix and "The Royal Stunt", an investigation into the hidden world of art forgery. https://giampiero.com SPONSORS https://brooklynbedding.com - Use code DANNY for 30% off site wide. https://shopmando.com - Use code DANNY for 20% off plus FREE shipping. https://trueclassic.com/danny - Upgrade your wardrobe and SAVE on TrueClassic today. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS https://giampiero.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Tony Tetro - world's top art forger 14:25 - investigating James Stunt's art collection 34:25 - how James Stunt made millions on fake art 40:29 - the lost Leonardi da Vinci painting 55:42 - what happened to Tony Tetro & James Stunt 01:06:00 - how Tony Tetro became a forger 01:13:03 - why older paintings are harder to forge 01:25:11 - how CIA used Jackson Pollock art as a weapon 01:38:25 - the problem with artists' foundations 01:45:55 - why such great art was made during the renaissance 01:53:42 - how modern art has evolved 02:07:03 - the dark side of kid influencers 02:11:10 - Roblox & section 230 02:19:52 - how to fix social media 02:25:44 - the doomsday clock 02:38:08 - BrandArmy & social media poisoning kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This whole world of modern art is wild.

1:20.3

I've been diving into it, like for the past year now, pretty deep and ever, I got inspired by that Lost Leonardo documentary, which was fascinating.

1:23.1

And then, um, I recently have been reading up on all of the history of like covert operations during

1:28.4

the Cold War to fund the modern art world. And, uh, and your documentary is fascinating. So,

1:33.9

so explain how you got into that whole world and what your book and the documentary are about.

1:37.5

Sure. Remind me to remind me to tell you about the CIA thing because I'm doing a big project

1:42.2

on a Pollock from that program. Oh, really?

1:44.5

Yeah, so I'll tell you about that.

1:45.7

But I was doing, you know, I started as a kind of a cub reporter for Japanese TV in the 90s.

1:53.4

And during that time, the Japanese economy had a bubble economy.

1:58.5

And so there was just money everywhere.

2:00.5

Real estate was going crazy in

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