Five Years Aprés le Sotheby’s-vs.-Christie’s Scandale

Anthony Tennant

Eton-educated, like virtually all the top brass at Christie's, this former chairman of Guinness PLC was indicted along with Taubman. Federal prosecutors alleged that the two men talked pricing over their occasional breakfasts in London. But Tennant, who said no such thing ever happened, couldn't be extradited to the U.S. for trial. His lucky loophole: Price-fixing isn't a crime in the U.K.

A. Alfred Taubman

The 83-year-old mall billionaire did nine months in a federal prison, then retired to Palm Beach, where he wrote a memoir, Threshold Resistance, in which he claims he was framed. Surrounded by Donald Trump and Thomas Krens at his Four Seasons book party last week, Taubman still blamed Christie's. "They were putting out a story that Sotheby's was guilty and [Christie's wasn't]—and they started the thing!"