Alan Dershowiz, the ex-Harvard Law School professor who is playing a central role defending Donald Trump in his Senate Impeachment trial, has been hit with new claims he had sex with an underage girl....
Harvey Weinstein hobbled into court without the aid of a walker on the opening day in his sex crimes trial and heard a prosecutor detail how the ex-movie mogul “used his power and prestige" to sexually assault women....
Will Roger Stone sing? The longtime Donald Trump friend is facing up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice and witness tampering, and 30 years on five counts of lying to Congress....
Donald Trump and Senate Republicans steered the U.S. Supreme Court hard right by appointing Bret Kavanaugh. Now a New York tax case could be the first test of whether that gambit pays off....
More than a dozen websites operators who sell ready-to-assemble assault rifles and other guns over the Internet have been ordered to stop doing business in New York State,...
Scarlett Johansson defended Woody Allen in a new interview. (Photo: Getty)
Scarlett Johansson openly asserted her support for embattled director Woody Allen w...
Robert Mueller, a highly decorated Marine and Vietnam combat veteran, knows the meaning of orders. As special counsel of the Trump/Russia investigation, he failed to follow them....
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced serial sexual harasser, is proving to be a slippery lawsuit defendant. The ex-movie mogul dodged Ashley Judd’s sexual harassment lawsuit because of a loophole in the law that has since been closed....
Egan Schiele paintings are at the center of a legal dispute in Manhattan filed by the heirs of holocaust victim Fritz Grunbaum. The Nazis plundered his art and sent him to a concentration camp in 1938. But the two paintings have recently resurfaced and may be worth $5.5 million. Grunbaum’s heirs, Timothy Reif and David Fraenkel, filed the complaint this week in Manhattan Supreme Court to block a pending auction of the paintings....
Andrew Wyeth’s bucolic painting “Ice Storm” is at the center of a legal dispute evolving out of a 20-year-old New York City art scandal perpetrated by disgraced art dealer David Ramus, who swindled clients out of millions of dollars. Among his victims is Reed Galin, a former TV news anchor, who was a life-long friend of Ramus and college roommate....
The Jeff Koons exhibit at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan was hit by a graffiti vandal last night, who was caught on video spray-painting a wall in front of dozens of startled patrons. Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, was arrested at the museum after he was accosted by security guards and turned over to police, according to reports. Fortunately, the focus of the exhibit, Koons’ “Hanging Heart” sculpture, and other works were not harmed,...
Hildebrand Gurlitt hailed from a family that was well known in artistic circles in pre-World War II Germany. His father was an architect and art historian, one brother was a musicologist and a nephew was an art dealer. But a deep, dark secret set him apart. During World War II, Gurlitt, a specialist in modern art, was hired by Joseph Goebbels, the feared Nazi propaganda minister, to loot priceless artworks from homes and museums across Nazi-occupied Europe....
Pei-Shen Qian, described as a struggling Chinese artist, is the master forger behind one of the biggest scams to sweep the New York City art scene in years, involving more than 80 bogus paintings by modern masters. Alleged works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, were actually painted by the 73-year-old immigrant artist in the garage of his Queens home. Few details about the investigation are known. What is known is mostly contained in a new grand jury indictment of alleged scam mastermind Glafira Rosales, 57. She was arraigned today (Aug 19) in federal court in Manhattan....
