“$10,000 reward given for returned portray,” it learn.
The corporate’s administrators, Ian Peck and Terence Doran, responded with a $30 million lawsuit in September through which they accused Ms. Mugrabi of participating in “an illegal marketing campaign of intimidation and falsely and maliciously defaming them.”
In an affidavit, Mr. Peck mentioned their firm was compelled to promote the Warhol for $325,000, a discount value, to cowl its escalating prices and what Peck described as harm to their reputations.
Ms. Mugrabi denies defaming anybody and, undaunted, has countersued. Twice.
“They’re no person,” she mentioned in a telephone interview. “I’m the star, not them, proper?”
Artwork and Acrimony
Ms. Mugrabi is accustomed to the limelight, to authorized squabbling and to sure comforts. The daughter of Charles Scher, a plastic surgeon, she grew up “very rich,” she as soon as informed The New York Occasions, with properties in Oakhurst, N.J., and Palm Seaside, Fla.
She met Mr. Mugrabi, whose art-dealing household owned the world’s largest personal assortment of Warhols, in Aspen, Colo., in 2001 and married him in New York 4 years later, on the Pierre resort, carrying a Victorio y Lucchino robe fitted to her in Spain. The couple, who would have two youngsters, jetted to artwork gala’s in Venice (the place they partied on the yacht of the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) and holidays in Portofino, Miami and St. Bart’s.
If the wedding was sensational, the divorce was maybe extra so. The precipitating occasion might or might not have been a 2018 ceremonial dinner on the couple’s Hamptons residence. Ms. Mugrabi mentioned she awakened within the morning to search out her husband and one other lady unclothed and asleep beneath a portray by Richard Prince, maybe after a thin dip. (Mr. Mugrabi has declined to touch upon Ms. Mugrabi’s account.)
