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Ex-Mrs. Edelman Downsizes

September 3, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Here’s an interesting item from the New York Post’s Page Six which speculates on the owner of 223 lots being sold at Sotheby’s Paris location in late September. By stringing together a series of blog posts, Page Six declares the owner to be Asher Edelman’s ex-wife who lives in Switzerland and is hoping to raise $2m in the sale (though Sotheby’s does not have a catalogue available yet):

Monocle magazine ran a small item on the sale, “Photographs, Furniture & Works of Art from a Parisian Flat, Avenue Montaigne,” with a few key clues. The seller is 1) a woman; 2) raised in South America; 3) married twice. Now, the Transracial.net blog has identified the mystery woman as Brazilian-born Maria Regina Leal Costa Mayall Edelman, a k a Regina Edelman — the ex-wife of Asher Edelman, the art-collecting 1980s corporate raider who was an inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in “Wall Street.” Edelman, now married to wife No. 4, has a new art gallery on the Upper East Side.

Art Sale Has Whiff of Gekko (Page Six)

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