All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words
a spreadsheet; before I had even thought of entering the art world at all. My story starts with a friendship; with a young man called Inigo Philbrick. When you embark on something at twenty, which is when Inigo and I, inexperienced and wet behind the ears, started dealing art together, there’s
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2019, just weeks after he’d vanished, I woke to an email from British Airways which read: ‘We want to let you know that Mr Inigo Philbrick has added you to their Family and Friends list. That means they can book reward flights for you with their Avios, which is the currency
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, the possibilities must have seemed boundless. The split that was eventually agreed to resulted in changing the name of the gallery from Modern Collections to Inigo Philbrick Gallery, as well as a change of livery from frothy white to a murky grey. By the end of 2014, Inigo had moved out of
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invoice for the Wool. To my surprise, he replied immediately in a direct and businesslike tone. ‘Send it to Jess [Inigo’s assistant] addressed to Inigo Philbrick Ltd. Thanks.’ More than a little incredulous, I played it cool, waiting a full half hour before sending the invoice, having checked and rechecked that
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much. Jopling denies any knowledge of Inigo’s criminal activity. In a statement he said, ‘I am aware of the serious allegations made against Mr. Inigo Philbrick. It has hurt and saddened me to learn that Mr. Philbrick, whom I respected and whose early career I supported, has not only betrayed my
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uncertain futures. On Tuesday 16 June, Inigo appeared before the court. There, Inigo waived his right to an identity hearing (they’d got the right Inigo Philbrick) and consented not to apply for bail in Guam upon the understanding that he be transferred to the Southern District of New York within a
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’s sentencing. The following day the Guardian published a piece entitled, ‘“He’s sabotaged his entire life for greed”: the $86m rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick’. One after another people sent it to me, sometimes with accompanying messages like ‘I hope you’re OK’; other times with no comment, just the
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
by Michael Shnayerson · 20 May 2019 · 552pp · 163,292 words
, Dominique Lévy, Nicholas Logsdail, Michele Maccarone, Christy MacLear, Gerard Malanga, Don Marron, Fergus McCaffrey, Jamie Niven, Annina Nosei, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marc Payot, Emmanuel Perrotin, Inigo Philbrick, Robert Pincus-Witten, Annie Plumb, Jeff Poe, Marc Porter, Eva Presenhuber, Dotson Rader, William Rayner, Janelle Reiring, John Richardson, Walter Robinson, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Thaddaeus