{"id":9535,"date":"2013-11-26T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:57:47","slug":"scammers-busted-for-peddling-fake-damien-hirst-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/11\/scammers-busted-for-peddling-fake-damien-hirst-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scammers\u2019 busted for peddling fake Damien Hirst prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According the Manhattan DA\u2019s Office, Vincent Lopreto, 48, and his partner, Ronald Bell, 49, of the Jazzartz gallery have been selling hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of fake Damien Hirst prints on eBay and through auction houses. \u00a0The men used fake authentication letters, but were caught and reported to authorities after two New Yorker buyers became suspicious of their acquisitions, when they were being sold for tens of thousands less than the market supports. Furthermore, after an expert examined the works it was determined that, \u201cthe coloring, the spacing and paper is not consistent with genuine prints of original artwork by Damien Hirst.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/11\/25\/scammers-busted-for-peddling-fake-damien-hirst-prints\/\">\u2019\u2018Scammers\u2019 busted for peddling fake Damien Hirst prints<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the Manhattan DA\u2019s Office, Vincent Lopreto, 48, and his partner, Ronald Bell, 49, of the Jazzartz gallery have been selling hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of fake Damien Hirst prints on eBay and through auction houses. \u00a0The men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/11\/scammers-busted-for-peddling-fake-damien-hirst-prints\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-9535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Scammers\u2019 busted for peddling fake Damien Hirst prints<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/11\/scammers-busted-for-peddling-fake-damien-hirst-prints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Scammers\u2019 busted for peddling fake Damien Hirst prints\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According the Manhattan DA\u2019s Office, Vincent Lopreto, 48, and his partner, Ronald Bell, 49, of the Jazzartz gallery have been selling hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of fake Damien Hirst prints on eBay and through auction houses. \u00a0The men &hellip; 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