<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c9376185-0c2f-46af-990e-9102e011ea09/643F0BDD-F135-425C-ABEE-11A1FCA8CD5D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html">Several abstract paintings by the late father of actor Robert De Niro were sold without the actor's permission in a New York art scam, it has emerged</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html"><P id="ynw-article-part2">The multi-million dollar fraud also duped former <A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/tennis.html">tennis</A> champion John McEnroe and the Bank of America.</P><P>Art dealer Lawrence Salander, 59, has been charged with stealing $5m (£3m) after he allegedly sold works from several art collections and failed to pay the the proceeds to the owners of the paintings.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uk.news.yahoo.com/img/32839AEA-644F-47DF-9E6A-F4D54F7D25BE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html"><P>Among the works sold by Salander and other dealers at his New York gallery were works by Robert De Niro Senior, an abstract Expressionist painter who died of <A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/cancer-leukaemia.html">cancer</A> in 1993 aged 71.</P><P>More than £600,000 was lost from De Niro's collection as a result of the scam.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090715/twl-robert-de-niro-victim-of-new-york-ar-3fd0ae9.html"><P>Robert De Niro Junior, an Oscar-winning actor known for his collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, has organised exhibitions of his father's work around the world and says he keeps many of his paintings at home.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/643F0BDD-F135-425C-ABEE-11A1FCA8CD5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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