The gang made off with antiques worth tens of millions – Britain's biggest-ever domestic burglary.
In the first we learn that parents are hiring designers to decorate their children's bedrooms with $20,000 murals and antiques worth a year's college tuition.
Last July, the world's attention turned to the temple when the committee unearthed what one of its members said was gold, diamonds and precious antiques worth up to $40 billion.
Ms. Hladun-Goldmann, described by the justice as "a no-nonsense person who came across as a businesswoman," is also an Armani-clad, Ukrainian girl-made-good who owns this 1885 town house (on the market for $16 million) and an 18th-century London manse, both decorated in period antiques worth $5 million.
He told the clients that the antique was worth about $500,000, at least four times the value of their house.
In a dresser, the burglar discovered the mother lode: a cache of antique jewelry worth about $20,000, he said.
He said he came to that conclusion after he gave his son a collection of antique marbles worth about $500,000 in 1986.
A former curator at the Historical Society of Rockland County who stole an antique atlas worth $65,000 was sentenced last week to five years' probation and 24 weekends of community service.
She once used Elf's money to buy Mr. Dumas a $1,700 pair of handmade shoes and a small collection of antique statues worth about $40,000.
Three people were arrested for stealing an antique violin worth nearly $2 million from an internationally acclaimed musician while she stopped for a snack at a London sandwich bar, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
