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One Man Goes Missing In Recent Art Caper Chaos

2paintingdrunk0910.jpg The tale of the missing masterpiece continues. At first alleged co-owners Kristyn Trudgeon and Tom Doyle were blaming drunken art courier James Haggerty on losing the Jean Baptiste Camille Corot painting, said to be worth around $1 million. Then Trudgeon had to drop her lawsuit against Haggerty when her lawyer found out Doyle is actually a convicted art thief! And then the FBI started investigating Doyle due to his sordid history with the painting, which, it turns out, was never even partially owned by him.

Now the NY Post reports on Haggerty, the courier hired by Doyle who originally was said to have lost the still-missing painting after a few too many drinks. Turns out he's missing, and was being sued for $8 million by the TerraComm Group. The suit claimed that he and a business partner never paid the firm for their consulting services.

The Post adds that his and the partner's "offices have apparently since moved twice and the company has changed names at least three times." And, yes, the phone numbers were disconnected. Haggerty had been living in an apartment at Trump Place on Riverside Boulevard, but moved out on August 1st, after the painting went "missing."

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  • researcher11

    While still in Fed prison, he's managed to rope in a simple, kind woman who has stood by him, seeing the 'good' in him. This man has a history of illegal activity going back decades, have a 'search' and see for yourself! I don't feel for him, I feel terrible for those he has conned, particularly the kind woman who he roped in

  • Detex

    He was being sued for $800K, not $8MM... But I mean it is close enough right?

  • jchez

    I'd watch that movie.

  • jza1218

    I am thoroughly confused...

  • grove

    cohen brother's should start working on a script! this story keeps getting better

  • Rocknrope

    Seriously, or David Mamet. This is some pro-level grifting.

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