Convicted fraudster expresses regret in a two-part BBC documentary but also asks ‘what about all the good deals?’
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s an art dealer in London and Miami, Inigo Philbrick had the Midas touch and lived the high life, with private jets, $5,000 bottles of wine and $7,000 suits. But in 2019 he was exposed as a serial swindler who had created one of the largest art frauds in history, a Ponzi-style web of lies that conned collectors and investors.
In 2022, aged 34, he was sentenced to seven years in a US prison, with two years of supervised release and an order “to pay forfeiture of $86,672,790”.
Released from prison partway through his sentence last year, he claims not to know where the $86m is and expresses regret rather than remorse in a forthcoming BBC documentary.
