ENCORE | The Fine Art Fugitive

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

‘Tis the season for spending obscene amounts of money. That’s something superstar art dealer Inigo Philbrick excels at. In this re-run from last year, the art world hustler starts making big money “flipping” works of art. Before long, he’s selling shares of paintings to investors all over the globe, all while becoming known for his jet-setting and expensive taste. But when he makes too many promises he can’t keep, this art world svengali will lose it all.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers early and ad free on Amazon music.
0:05.0	Download the app today.
0:07.0	It's a holiday season and you know what that means.
0:10.0	Everyone's spending truly excessive amounts of money.
0:13.0	Satchi, what have you spent the most money on this month?
0:16.0	I bought a laser for my face.
0:19.0	I bought a face laser.
0:21.0	Oh, yes.
0:22.0	Yeah. Brilliant. Mm this show people are always blowing
0:27.2	insane amounts of money on things like yachts, private jets and designer clothes.
0:31.1	It's all pretty standard but the thing I'm always
0:33.7	shocked about is how much money people spend on art, which I feel like it's such a
0:38.6	risk how do you know if it's a good or not or if it's valuable? And the episode I think illustrates that the most for me is the one that we originally aired last year.
0:47.2	It's got everything you could want for the holidays, Art Basel, MDMA, and foul-mouth reality TV stars.
0:54.4	This is the fine art fugitive.
0:57.1	Tis the season. Hi, Hagi.
1:05.0	Hey, Sachi.
1:07.0	Okay, so what comes to your mind when you hear the words art scam.
1:13.2	I think about a lot of art I have seen in my life
1:16.9	that I'm definitely like, this is not real art.
1:21.2	This has to be a scam. And I think about forgery, you know, people who are really, really good at forging art and fooling people for decades. Yeah.
1:30.0	This week, the scam I'm going to tell you about actually has nothing to do with forgery.
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