Art Dealer Fleeces Nuns For Millions

Notre Dame Ange, an 1889 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These Nuns Produce Albums To For Charity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Most Holy Nuns At Their Convent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Painting Could Have Help Support The Convent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They Have Three Other Missions Where Their Nuns Teach The Word Of God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Song Playing Was Sung By Them

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Greedy Art Dealer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Dealer Buys Painting Off Naive Nuns

An art dealer who bought a painting from an upstate convent for $450,000 and then immediately resold it for $2.2 million says it's not his fault nuns are bad business people. He was resold the next week for $5 million.

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

An Accomplice

Lasalle and art dealer Mark Zaplin "intentionally, deliberately, wantonly, maliciously [and] with evil motive . . . perpetrated fraud against the Daughters of Mary Mother of Our Savior," the nuns charge in court papers.

   

 

 

 

 

 

The Zionist's Lawyer

Lasalle's lawyer, Dan Sleasman, said the allegations are "false" and the lawsuit is "filled with one falsehood after another." Zaplin referred comment to his lawyer, who didn't immediately return a call. 9

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Dumont

Apparently a secretary, Helen Dumont, came forward and told the nuns that the Jewish boys had flipped the painting for more than $2 million. It has since sold for more than $5 million by another accomplice. 3

   

 

 

 

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