Ending on a Sour Note : How the World's Top Stradivarius Dealer Misplayed

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Dietmar Machold was the world's most successful dealer of Stradivari instruments -- and probably a fraud. Many instruments have disappeared, while creditors are demanding €100 million that is owed to them. Once a high society favorite who lived in a castle, Machold now awaits trial in a Vienna prison.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...832274,00.html