![]() ![]() Georges became a patron of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. The dynasty’s wealth was amassed by Guy’s great-grandfather, Nathan Wildenstein, a cloth merchant from Alsace whose passion for collecting art was passed on to his son, Georges. The family is known for both its unrivalled collection of old masters’ paintings and its squabbling, including the bitter 1999 divorce of Alec and his wife Jocelyn Perisset, whose penchant for bizarre facial cosmetic surgery made headlines. In 2018 an appeal court upheld the acquittal.įrance’s highest court, the cour de cassation, on Wednesday annulled the acquittal and ordered a retrial. The trial collapsed after the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence that the accused knowingly committed tax fraud and ruled that there had been failings in the investigation. ![]() ![]() The public prosecutor asked for Guy Wildenstein to be fined €250m (£226m) and demanded that the family hand over €616m in unpaid tax. ![]() The accused, who denied the accusations, faced up to four years in jail. A notary, two lawyers and two managers of trust funds held in Guernsey and the Bahamas were also in the dock. In what was described as the “trial of the missing millions”, Franco-American Guy, 74, appeared alongside his nephew Alec Jr, and his brother Alec’s widow Liouba Soupakova. ![]()
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