DIVORCE OF A MILLIONAIRE SETTLED AMICABLE
Call me crazy, but billionaires seem to have a little trouble with entitlement, right?
I know one who certainly does: the founder of Millennium Management and mega-collector English from Israelwho, according to Forbesworth an estimate $11.3 billion. That figure likely changed this spring following a civil lawsuit filed in New York by his ex-wife, Caryl Englanderfiled in New York alleging Israel ‘terrorized’ her and the woman she left him for, gallerist Dominique Levy.
According to a report by page 6Israel has now agreed to pay his wife “more than $1 billion” in a divorce settlement, while the dramatic civil suit Caryl filed for harassment has been quietly dropped. A billion is a lot of money – and the settlement is said to also include some of their “significant art collection”! (Reminds me a bit of that line from Roman in Succession this season: “A million is a thousand thousand. 500 times a thousand thousand of money that we could spend on snowmobiles and sushi. Caryl gets double!)
When they got married, the English were among the world’s top 200 art collectors, named by ART newsand have been recognized donors to the jewish museum. Caryl also happens to be a documentary and portrait photographer herself, and President of the council of the International photography center.
But the English divorced in 2020 Israel would walk away with 95% of the value of their marital assets after persuading Caryl to sign a post-nuptial agreement if he left her alone with Lévy. When they parted ways, according to court documents cited by Page Six (which have been removed from public access since the settlement), Israel had “set out to terrorize the two women to force a rift in their relationship, believing he might bully Caryl into ‘waking up’ and coming back to him.”
(For the queer ladies of the house, this notion combines two violently presumptuous male ways of thinking as old as time: one about how lesbian relationships are a hypnotic fugue state you can be convinced of, and the other, a dangerous sense of entitlement over your spouse. If I were the judge, I’d award the same consolation prize to any woman who had to deal with either!)
The civil suit went on to describe a ‘year-long campaign of coercion’ in which Israel tracked women both by ex-cops and private investigators, including on vacation in Italy in 2017 It also states that they both had their emails and phones. pirate.
Beyond the harassment the couple suffered, there were also allegations that Englander went so far as to defame Lévy and sabotage his business. The lawsuit refers to the actions he took against Lévy and his company as “unreasonable.” These included “defamation of senior representatives of Christie’s And Sotheby’s– even threatening to stop donating his lucrative business to auction houses if they continued to work with Levy,” like a previous story in the New York Post Put the. He also hired a company to acquire his company’s private information to falsely claim that she had committed tax evasion “seeking to trigger an unwarranted government investigation into her”.
As it stands, Israel Englander remains among the 200 richest people in the world. Examining the records myself, Bob DylanThe line of mine comes to mind: “The richest person is sometimes poor compared to the man of contented mind.” Perhaps some food for thought, Mr. Englander.
AND NOW PRESENT: MATHLENE
Matthew Brown, left. Right: Lucas Zwirner and Bettina Huang. Photo: Martyna Szczesna.
Why do we call handcuff season late fall? From where I stand, it seems that spring is the season when couples arise! Just a few weeks ago I broke the news of a new artistic couple Kenniman (a.k.a Kenny Schachter And Tracey Emin), and now I have a new couple to throw in the ring.
A few weeks ago, a handful of single people who Gutes Guterman handpicked for our list this February converged towards Paul’s Casablanca for a particularly debauched evening. I had to change that last sentence earlier from “memorably bawdy” to “notably bawdy” because, honestly, that was one of the those nights.
Fortunately, one of my few flash memories was good. At one of the private tables in the legendary nightclub – which was rented out that night by Amanita For Louis OsmosisSolo Show Afterparty – Caught Brown Watching enough comfortable with none other than Marlene Zwirnerdaughter of David Zwirner.
Now, a few weeks later, I can confirm that it wasn’t just a flash in the pan, and we have a new world art power couple on our hands! And in fact, the nepotastic duo (if you will rememberBrown is the grandson of Houston-based mega collectors Jeanne and Michael L. Klein) dropped little clues about their budding romance.
A tipster in Los Angeles said the two were hot and heavy one night at the hotspot restaurant Horseswhile this week in New York they were spotted signing gallery guestbooks at some select downtown galleries like Channel 47 And Lindner Silk with each other’s last name (Brown told me they didn’t get married).
WE HEAR
Katsu Sawada finished his portrait of Mark Zuckerberg made out of his own feces, and the comments section on the corresponding Instagram post is quite a fun ride (“Skatsu” and “From Hole to The hole” among my favorites)… A new No agency zine on the additional shortage East for sale To forgotten coffeewritten by Chloe Sage, Madeleine J Taylorand your servant… Various small fires took over the performance of Wendy’s Park… Monica Lewinsky lamented that she and Marilyn Minter have both been “rejected by mainstream feminists” in Vanity lounge…
Among the most compelling job offers on NYFA right now is THE custodian of project objects to an ancient Egyptian coffin Brooklyn Museum for $56,500 per year… The sale of Toshiko Takaezuthe sculpture Moon might be this year’s most unexpected auction result, fetching $542,000 on an estimated $20,000-$30,000 at Rago Arts (what happened there?!)… Sara Blazej opened a new space in Soho called Sara’swith an inaugural performance by Nick Klein… Apparently a burglar broke into Heritage auctions last month and flew eight Hermes bags, which was a pretty good tactic, as the sum of those parts was worth $242,000 in stolen value…
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The last weeks Port Discussion between Dean Kissick And New modelsIt is Caroline Busta certainly drew crowds, including Emma Stern, Rachel Rossin, Genevieve GoffmannAnd Josh Citarelle all crammed into TJ Byrnes before an after/opening at Rossin Dunkunsthalle on the other side of the street *** empire blingIt is Blake Abby And Martine Gutierrez To Laterleft for the new restoration of Gregg ArakiIt is The Doom Generation *** Derrick Adams, Zoe Buckman, Klaus BiesenbachAnd Agnes Gund To Lincoln Center for the YoungArts Gala in New York *** Perhaps the most star-studded museum opening of the year was Cecile Brown‘s: Jeff Koon, Larry Gagosian, Stavros Niarchos & Dasha Zhukova, Dana SchutzAnd Serena Brown were among some of the powerful players at The encounter *** Paul Schimmel seemed to enjoy his Passover At … ‘s house Lisa Edelstein And Robert Russell *** In the meantime, Yvonne Force VillarealIt is Easter brunch preparation also looked quite classy, as it came with Loie Hollowell plates, Cynthia Rowley tablecloths, and placed against a Lisa Yuskavage paint ***
🎬 ⭐ CALL FOR CASTING! 🎞️ 🍿
The Casting Call went on a brief hiatus last week, and instead I asked a Wet Paint quiz question: Who in the art world could best survive on a desert island? I was not the only one to think that Amy Cappelazzo would be a pretty valuable asset in a survival scenario, but collector Scott Lorinsky provided a real gem of an answer: “I remember the old chestnut tree that the only beings likely to survive the end of the world would be Dear and cockroaches. In this same spirit, surely the tireless Mary Boone would be a serious contender.
I will resume casting this week. The lucky winner will invariably receive a Wet Paint Cap in the email.
The warm weather has me dreaming of a visit to the Hamptonand I remember report of the Advantage of the watermill Last year this seemingly mundane artist/NFT Stacy Engman was attacked by a stalker because “I’m a billionaire and my NFTs are worth so much,” as she told PageSix. While it’s doubtful that’s actually what happened (the Watermill Center has never confirmed and no lawsuits have been filed), let’s pretend it is!
As we know, the Watermill Benefit is a kind of bizarro gala where somewhat disconcerting artistic performances nestle in the surrounding forest of the center, creating a kind of Midsommar-esque fun house for well-heeled attendees. I want to know who is playing (1) Engmanwho plays (2) THE alleged abuserand (3) someone who could be a disturbing performance artist who upsets the guests. Email your responses to [email protected].
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