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Aydın had purportedly pocketed some $80 million of it…and seems to have burned through all of it in just three years.
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Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Other phony works allegedly offered for sale by the 77-year-old suspect included ceramic vases by Picasso, Study of a Head by Amadeo Modigliani, and pieces purportedly by Peter Paul Rubens, Joan Miró and Anthony van Dyck.
—NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
In 2023, wearing baggy jeans, a fleece vest, and a baseball cap, he was photographed at a gas station filling up his truck and then eating a sandwich in the cab, purportedly a chicken one.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The footage, obtained by French broadcaster BFMTV, purportedly shows what has been called one of the most brazen art thefts in recent memory.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Other phony works allegedly offered for sale by the 77-year-old suspect included ceramic vases by Picasso, Study of a Head by Amadeo Modigliani, and pieces purportedly by Peter Paul Rubens, Joan Miró and Anthony van Dyck.
—NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
In 2023, wearing baggy jeans, a fleece vest, and a baseball cap, he was photographed at a gas station filling up his truck and then eating a sandwich in the cab, purportedly a chicken one.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The footage, obtained by French broadcaster BFMTV, purportedly shows what has been called one of the most brazen art thefts in recent memory.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Purportedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purportedly. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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