The Great Art Fraud: Season 1, Episode 1

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Philbrick starts out as an intern at famous London gallery White Cube. But within a few short years, he is running hugely successful galleries in London and Miami, specialising in postwar and contemporary fine art. With the market booming and a reality-TV-star girlfriend, he adopts a lavishly hedonistic lifestyle, spending millions on private jets and parties.But what the art world doesn't yet know is that Philbrick has sold the same paintings to different people at once. Works by famous names like Jean-Michel Basquiat have been sold to multiple different investors at the same time, in elaborate multimillion-pound scams. When his lies start crashing down he must choose: face justice, or disappear?