Friday, March 29, 2024
 

Couple Tried to Sell Fake Warhols


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Two Utahns, a 65-year-old Cottonwood Heights man and a 29-year-old woman from Saratoga Springs, were charged Wednesday with trying to sell fake Warhols to a collector by passing them off as real.

According to legal docs, the couple agreed to sell another man six Andy Warhol art pieces for $100,000 in February 2008. The man was told that the subject of the art was Mathew Baldwin, purportedly one of Hollywood’s Baldwin brothers. The pieces were signed and dated 1996.

Note to reader: there is no “Mathew Baldwin” and, most importantly, Warhol died in 1987. Both are charged with theft by deception and communications fraud, second-degree felonies. They also face six third-degree felony charges of forgery.

More from The Salt Lake Tribune here.

 

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