Michael Hammer Added to Knoedler Gallery Fraud Lawsuit

Michael Hammer, chairman of New York’s defunct Knoedler Gallery, was sued by a fashion executive and his wife over a fake Mark Rothko.

Hammer “reaped tens of millions of dollars” “and took no steps to stop the fraud,” Domenico De Sole, chairman of Tom Ford International, and Eleanore De Sole said in their amended complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. Hammer and Glafira Rosales, a dealer in Sands Point on New York’s Long Island who consigned artworks to Knoedler, were among four new defendants in the complaint.