It's the Swiss Sugar Baron's Fault: The Knoedler & Company Art Forgery Scandal
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A storied and respected New York art gallery thought they'd stumbled on a treasure trove of undiscovered Abstract Expressionist art. It was, of course, too good to be true. And anyone savvy enough to run a powerhouse art gallery and broker would have known that. But the pieces still went on sale for incredible amounts of money. Full of murky finances, questionable practices, and unnoticed goof ups, this is a classic art crime tale that we all need right now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own rules. |
| 0:10.9 | Segregation and the day integration at night. |
| 0:14.1 | It was like stepping on another world. |
| 0:16.6 | Was he a businessman? A criminal. |
| 0:19.4 | A hero. |
| 0:20.7 | Charlie was an example of power. They had to crush him. |
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| 0:28.9 | Listen to Charlie's Place on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:37.5 | Zarin. Elizabeth. How are you? I'm doing well. How about you? Good. How's your heart? You stop asking me. You never ask about my liver, my kidneys. I rely on them far more. How's your spleen? My spleen's good. I burst it once and it's good. It's healed back up. Nice. Nice. That's a terrible feeling. |
| 0:54.4 | You didn't ask about my heart. |
| 0:55.2 | My heart is full. |
| 0:56.2 | How are your lungs? |
| 0:57.3 | Full of it. |
| 0:58.6 | My lungs are okay. |
| 0:59.9 | How's your spastic colon? |
| 1:02.2 | You're not supposed to tell anyone about that. |
| 1:03.5 | Sorry, I don't use the descriptor. |
| 1:05.3 | Does that not help? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm trying to be more personal. |
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