A family dispute has spilled out from the Surrogate’s Court into the tabloids as the executor of a wealthy woman’s estate accuses her niece and nephew of taking works of art that belong to her mother—Faith Dorian-Wright’s—estate.
The complaint gets a little hysterical when it tries to suggest that Mackenzie Wright might have a $1m Kandinsky painting in her dorm room at New York’s FIT. (The niece’s attorney says the painting is in storage.)
A much more valuable Hawaiian bowl brought back from the Pacific by Captain Cook was reportedly give to Wright’s brother. It now resides in storage at Christie’s.
The whole story comes from dogged research by DNAinfo:Continue Reading