6 and Sittin' Pretty
July 9, 2008 by Chloe Liederman and Staff Tags: amy winehouse, babeland, britney spears, clinton, eliot spitzer, ellen degeneres, heath ledger, karl rove, lindsay lohan, melissa etheridge, obama, oprah winfrey, paris hilton, project runway, samantha ronson, sixth year in review, uh huh her
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Finders Keepers, Losers Millionaires
Five years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Gibson found a large, abstract painting in a pile of trash on West 72nd Street, and took it home. Gibson learned the painting’s identity when she recognized it on a television show about missing works of art. It turned out to be Rufino Tamayo’s Tres Personajes, and after she turned it in, it fetched a million bucks at a Sotheby’s auction in November 2007. It had been stolen from the original owners in 1987; they collected the auction proceeds and rewarded Gibson with $15,000 as a token of their gratitude. Gee, thanks guys.
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