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Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and their intersection with the law.
In today’s edition, fresh details surrounding the infamous Bouvier Affair—an art world scandal involving a Russian oligarch, Sotheby’s, and a lost-and-found Da Vinci that’s quietly heading to trial very, very soon. There’s a lot of money on the line, and the trial may entail some uncomfortable (and totally engrossing) testimony.
Also mentioned in this email: Kevin Spacey, the Panama Papers, the $330 million “Amadea” superyacht, Roger Goodell, an Epic v. Google update, Elon Musk, First Amendment drama in Red State America, and much more.
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But first…
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A courtroom in downtown Manhattan is the last place you’d expect to find Dmitry Rybolovlev, the billionaire Russian fertilizer mogul who, like any oligarch who hasn’t yet fallen off his balcony, is considered an ally of Vladimir Putin. But he might soon appear in New York to persuade a jury that Sotheby’s colluded with a Swiss art dealer, Yves Bouvier, to trick him into...
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