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Just about everyone who works in the New York art world knows Lisa Schiff, an art advisor to the rich and famous who worked with celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio for many years. She was a highly visible presence at art fairs, on museum boards, and generally around town, running her glamorous shop from a first-floor gallery in Tribeca whose entrance wall was covered with a Memorable floor-to-ceiling plant installation.
So media-savvy that she had a PR firm on board, Schiff was frequently cited as an expert in the arts press, and she had longstanding relationships with reporters around town, including here at Artnet News, where she even wrote an op-ed last summer on the scourge of “meme art”. That’s why it came as such a shock to many of us last May when a pursuit dropped accusing him essentially with the help of his consulting firm perform a rather extravagant Ponzi scheme.
So what exactly happened with Lisa Schiff? What is she accused of and where are we today? This week, Artnet News reporter Eileen Kinsella dives into the saga.
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