Inigo Philbrick, the art dealer who defrauded clients of more than $86 million (£60 million), has been released from prison and is now living with his wife, Made In Chelsea star Victoria Baker-Harber. Philbrick, 37, was sentenced to seven years in 2022 for orchestrating one of the most brazen art swindles in recent memory.
Philbrick's scheme involved selling over 100% ownership stakes in artworks, using the same painting as collateral for multiple loans, and forging documents. His victims included collectors, advisers and financiers. Among the artworks entangled in his fraud were pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Rudolf Stingel.
After his arrest in Vanuatu in 2020, Philbrick served two years in prison before being released on home detention. He married Baker-Harber in a private ceremony and the couple now have two daughters: Gaia and Astra August, born in May 2024. Baker-Harber, a reality TV star, supported him throughout his incarceration.
Philbrick has shown little remorse, telling The Sunday Times Magazine: 'Look, I didn't kill anyone. Nobody didn't send their children to university. I don't think that anyone in this whole story is guilty of much more than greed and ambition.' The case will be featured in the BBC documentary 'The Great Art Fraud', airing on 27 and 28 August.
