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Stolen Warhol Finds Home with Holzer

November 16, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Warhol fixture Jane Holzer was in court yesterday testifying in the trial of a Joseph Biear who sold her a “Heinz 57” box that was stolen, the NY Post reports:

Biear is accused of swiping the wooden box — a silk-screened replica of a ketchup crate — while working for poet Kenward Elmslie, a grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. Biear, 50, was hired as Elmslie’s driver in 2005 and quickly embarked on a brazen scheme to loot the 76-year-old’s money and valuables, prosecutors claim. Holzer bought the crate for $220,000 and paid another $20,000 to have it restored, she said in testimony.

Warhol Pal Duped on “Stolen” Art (NY Post)

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