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'Pink Star' Diamond Sells For $71 Million, Smashing Auction Record

4:18pm April 05, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The chairman of Hong Kong-based jewelry company Chow Tai Fook placed the winning bid over the phone to Sotheby's in Hong Kong. He renamed the jewel "CTF PINK STAR" in honor of his late father.

St. Jerome was previously thought to have been painted by a 16th century Italian artist. According to a complaint filed by Sotheby's auction house, it is actually a modern fake, painted in the 20th century.

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Sotheby's Contends Painting That Sold For $842,500 Is A Fake

3:49pm January 18, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the auction house argued that a painting titled St. Jerome was actually created in the 20th century, and not by the 16th century Italian artist known as Parmigianino.