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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dalya Alberge

‘He’s sabotaged his entire life for greed’: the $86m rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick

Inigo Philbrick at a London gallery opening 2016.
Dodgy dealer: Inigo Philbrick at a London gallery opening 2016. Photograph: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images

He has been condemned as a “serial swindler”, who duped art investors into parting with an eye-watering $86m, but his victims will never forget the charm and charisma of Inigo Philbrick.

The suave American dealer, with a gallery at an exclusive London address, a Midas touch that brought soaring profits in art sales and a socialite girlfriend from Made in Chelsea, had in fact been running a fraudulent business. This week, he was sentenced to seven years in a US jail, with two years of supervised release and an order “to pay a forfeiture of $86,672,790”.

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