Dmitry Rybolovlev — who purchased Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion for way over market value, was the seller when Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi became the most expensive artwork in history, and has been suing art dealer Yves Bouvier in various countries for years — is being investigated for trying to illegally influence Monegasque judges and police with respect to his suit against Bouvier in the principality.
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‘I Never Stole Or Embezzled Anything’: First Day Of Director Kirill Serebrennikov’s Trial In Moscow
“The artistic director of the Gogol Centre theatre said he did not understand the meaning of the prosecution’s indictment, which he compared to a ‘broken printer’ that repeats ‘absurd’ claims over and over. … Last week, Serebrennikov was nominated in three different categories for Russia’s prestigious Golden Mask theatre award,” and his staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, which he directed remotely while under house arrest, opened in Zurich.
Did That Russian Researcher In Antarctica Really Stab His Co-Worker Because He Gave Away Book Endings?
It has been widely reported that Savitsky “snapped” because Beloguzov repeatedly revealed the endings of the books that Savitsky was reading. However, it is unclear where this detail originated; an unnamed source told Russian news agency Interfax that tensions likely sparked from the men spending six months together in close quarters, but the source offered no further insights into what may have led Savitsky to pick up the knife and plunge it into Beloguzov’s chest.
‘Insufficient Information’: Finding Of Montreal Symphony Investigation Into Charles Dutoit Allegations
An independent investigation, ordered by the orchestra’s board last year, “did not yield sufficient information in relation to allegations of sexual harassment” by Dutoit, the ensemble’s music director from 1977 to 2002. The two complainants, for undisclosed reasons, did not speak with the investigators.
Actor Geoffrey Rush’s Defamation Lawsuit Is Banner Issue In Australia’s #MeToo Movement
In two front-page articles last year, the Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph published leaked complaints by an actress that Rush made inappropriately suggestive banter to her and (as King Lear) stroked her breast onstage as he lamented over her (Cordelia’s) body. The Oscar-Emmy-Tony-winning Rush, who claims he has suffered physical illness from stress over the reports, insists that the allegations aren’t true and sued the Telegraph for defamation.
Bernard Bragg, 90, Pioneering Deaf Actor And Co-Founder Of National Theater For The Deaf
“After I saw [Marcel] Marceau’s performance, I said to myself, if he can do a two-hour show without saying a word, why can’t I?” Bragg once said. And he did: as The Washington Post once wrote, Bragg became “the man who invented theater as a professional career for the deaf.”
A. Margaret Bok, ‘Matriarch’ Of Curtis Institute, Dead At 98
“Though mostly a behind-the-scenes presence at the school, Mrs. Bok, known as ‘Stormy,’ stepped into leadership positions at Curtis at critical times. … She is best remembered, though, for her many decades as a loyal supporter of the small school started by her mother-in-law, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, in 1924. … It was during her most active period at Curtis that it shifted from being an inward-looking institution that relied on its own endowments and only selectively opened concerts to the public to one that routinely sends its students — and fund-raisers — to concert halls around the world.”
The Singer And The Clumsy Critic, A Love Story
He tried to fix things by belatedly praising Mr. Fabiano’s performance, but the damage was done. “I said, ‘I’ll see you later,’ and I walked away,” Mr. Fabiano said. That might have been that, had a deus ex machina not intervened in the form of Ann Ziff, the chairwoman of the Met board. She invited them both to her table at dinner.
Judith Kazantzis, ‘Gadfly Poet Against Injustice,’ Has Died At 78
Kazantzis, born into a literary family (and a titled one – a privilege she steadfastly refused), “explored themes like the power relations between men and women and the abuses of power against the weak, and when it was first published in the 1970s, it resonated with an emerging new feminism — one that was giving a platform to women to express their repressed anger toward patriarchy, find a place in the literary establishment and, perhaps more important, connect with one another.”
Jin Yong, Writer Of Chinese Martial Arts Epics, Has Died At 94
The Hong Kong-based author was so famous, as generations of Chinese read his novels, that there is a branch of academic study named for him: “Jin Yong, the pen name of Louis Cha, was one of the most widely read 20th-century writers in the Chinese language. The panoramic breadth and depth of the fictional universes he created have been compared to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and have been studied as a topic known as ‘Jinology.'”