The art world. It is essentially a money laundering business. The best fakes are still hanging on people's walls. You know, they don't even know or suspect that their face. I'm Alec Baldwin and this is a podcast about deception, greed and forgery in the art world. I just walked in and saw this bright red painting presuming to be a rothko. Of course, art forgeries only happen because there's money to be made, a lot of money. I'm listening to how
what they're paying for these things. It was an incredible man of money. We sent him a check for one million, one thousand, but he said to us that he thought the picture was now worth three million, and he was gonna sue us for that much money. The art market is ripe for cons because it's inherently subjective. I just couldn't even look at it because as it was so
garish and so not by Rothkoe. You've got to prove that the paintings are fake, and you've got to prove that someone who sold them knew that they were fake. There were an unusually large number of prominent people who seemingly were going to stand by the paintings and say that they were real. You knew the painting was fake. UM. Listen to Art Fraud on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.