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Today in Focus

Inside the biggest art fraud in US history

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Orlando Whitfield, the author of All That Glitters, on his years of friendship with the art fraudster Inigo Philbrick. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. forgery, private jets, drugs, and beautiful art.

0:15.0

The inside story of an 86 million dollar fraud. We invest in new thinking, everything from SpaceX to Epic Games the makers of Fort Knight.

0:32.0

Denali, who are pioneering to Epic Games the makers of Fort Knight,

0:33.0

Denali who are pioneering treatments for degenerative brain disease

0:37.0

and language learning app duolingo.

0:40.0

To Zipline, who are experts in drone delivery.

0:45.0

Companies that are pushing the envelope.

0:49.0

Bailey Gifford Invest in Innovation, Capital at Risk.

0:54.0

Before we begin, this episode contains some swearing and a reference to suicide. In the handful of years, he had the world at his feet. Inigo Philbrick chartered private jets.

1:15.0

He drank $5,000 wines,

1:18.0

reportedly carried ketamine in his suitcase,

1:21.0

shuffled millions of pounds like change in his pocket.

1:25.2

He soared through the art world like a comet.

1:28.6

And then all of a sudden, this young, glamorous, wildly successful art dealer, simply vanished.

1:39.0

In the media, Inigo Philbrick became known as the biggest art fraudster in history.

1:44.7

To the US justice system, he was prisoner 056-30093.

1:51.0

To Orlando Whitfield. Inigo was one of his closest friends.

1:55.0

He navigated the art world from an internship to international art dealing stardom in a matter of five years. He was making millions of dollars a year by the time he was in his late 20s and by the time he was in his mid-30s he was in prison.

2:14.0

For years, Inigo Philbrick led some of the world's richest art collectors

2:19.0

through a hall of mirrors, before it all crashed down around him.

2:25.0

Even now, banks, lawyers, other art dealers,

2:29.0

are trying to pick through the pieces. Now one of the people who knew him best or thought he did

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