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The $450 Million da Vinci and the $1 Billion Art Fraud

Salvator Mundi

The Russian oligarch who hid a fortune in art to keep it from his wife, only for his buyer to steal much of that fortune from him, may have just had the last laugh.

Michael Daly
Michael Daly 

Special Correspondent

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Michael Daly

Michael Daly

Special Correspondent

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