Hello, listeners, it's my pleasure to invite you to listen to a new true crime podcast from Cavalry Audio and I Heart Radio. It's called Art Fraud, and it exposes the single greatest art crime in US history. Executive produced
and narrated by Alec Baldwin. If you like stories about rich people getting cond out of their money while also being immersed in that strange and beautiful world of the mid century masters that put the abstract Expressionist movement on the map, then Art Fraud is the podcast for you. I'm about to play the trailer while you're listening. You can follow Art Fraud on the I Heart Radio app, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy Art Fraud. The art world it is essentially a money
laundering business. The best fakes are still hanging on people's balls. You know, they don't even know or suspect that they're fakes. 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 rothco. 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 each thing. It was an incredible
mans 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 it was so garish and so not by Rothko. 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 umber 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.