Inigo Philbrick, an artwork supplier who went to jail for defrauding different sellers and buyers out of thousands and thousands of {dollars}, spoke to the BBC for a forthcoming documentary.
In 2022, Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in US jail, with two years of supervised launch and a forfeiture of $86 million and two work, for wire fraud and identification theft. He was launched early in 2024, having not served lower than half his sentence.
Subsequent week, the BBC will launched a two-part documentary referred to as The Nice Artwork Fraud, through which Philbrick himself seems on digital camera. The Guardian bought an early have a look at the movie, reporting that in it, Philbrick says, “I’m clearly in no place to do something aside from say how sorry I’m. However there’s a small a part of me that thinks: what about all the great offers?”
When requested concerning the $86 million he gained, Philbrick reportedly claims not solely that he doesn’t have it, however that he doesn’t know the place the cash is.
The documentary delves into Philbrick’s biography. He grew up in Connecticut because the son of a former museum director and a Harvard-educated author and artist, and later interned with White Dice gallery in London.
The BBC can also be highlighting his life together with his spouse, the Made in Chelsea socialite Victoria Baker-Harber. Earlier than his conviction, Philbrick had fled Britain and hid out with Baker-Harber on the Pacific island Vanuatu. He was later arrested there by the FBI. They now have two youngsters collectively.
Within the documentary, Philbrick says he nonetheless has “the ambition is to get again to doing what I used to be doing. I used to be an incredible artwork supplier.”
