High-Flying London Art Dealer in Oklahoma Jail After Fraud Bust
- Inigo Philbrick is held in facility where masks aren’t popular
- Philbrick had gone missing after flurry of suits by investors
Art dealer Inigo Philbrick’s journey from a life of private jets and million-dollar auctions to an equally glamorous escape from fraud charges in the South Pacific has detoured to a rural Oklahoma jail.
Philbrick, who had galleries in London and Miami specializing in post-war and contemporary art, was arrested on June 15 in the island nation of Vanuatu and turned over to U.S. authorities. He was presented in court in Guam, a U.S. territory, was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service for transport to New York.