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matt819

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18. Oh my. . .

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:45 PM

Jan 2019

From The Washington Post in Dec 2017:

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New York-based art collector and da Vinci expert Robert Simon and art dealer Alexander Parish found the painting in Louisiana in 2005 and purchased it for $10,000.

It then underwent a six-year restoration and verification process.

In 2013, a consortium of dealers including Simon, Parish and Warren Adelson sold “Salvator Mundi” for $80 million to a company owned by a Swiss businessman and art dealer Yves Bouvier, Bloomberg reported. Bouvier, in turn, sold it to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $127.5 million in 2014.

Rybolovlev owned the painting until Nov. 15, when Prince Bader made it the world’s most expensive painting by shelling out $450,312,500 for it.

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Rybolovlev bought trump's Florida property in 2008 for $95 million, overpaying by tens of millions of dollars. Just as MBS and/or Abu Dhabi bought the painting for probably $200 million more than they should have.

Money laundering anyone?

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