500-year-old da Vinci painting sells for record $592 million at auction — Follow The Money (updated)

https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/kids/500-year-old-da-vinci-painting-sells-for-record-592-million-at-auction-ng-79df1efb125f2b6874f90c0f0e39ceff A 500-YEAR-OLD painting by world-famous artist Leonardo da Vinci has sold for a record $592 million. The painting went up for auction last week after Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev decided to sell it. The oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb*, called Salvator Mundi which is Italian for “Saviour of the World”, is one of […]

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UPDATE: http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-hanukkah.html

In 2017, the ‘Jewish mobster’ Dmitry Rybolovlev sold the above ‘fake’ Leonardo to Abu Dhabi.

In 1958, the painting was sold by Sotheby’s auction house for less than fifty pounds because experts refused to believe that Da Vinci painted it.

In 1996 Dmitry Rybolovlev was arrested for murder, but later set free.

In 2008, Dmitry Rybolovlev bought Trump’s seaside Florida mansion, Maison de l’Amitie, for $95 million.