{"id":130911,"date":"2017-11-13T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130911"},"modified":"2017-11-13T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:38:32","slug":"alec-baldwin-settles-lawsuit-against-new-york-art-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/13\/alec-baldwin-settles-lawsuit-against-new-york-art-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin settles lawsuit against New York art dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122555\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/581px-Alec_Baldwin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122555\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/581px-Alec_Baldwin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: actor Alec Baldwin (Photo By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"581\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/581px-Alec_Baldwin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 581w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/581px-Alec_Baldwin_by_Gage_Skidmore-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: actor Alec Baldwin (Photo By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Alec Baldwin has settled a lawsuit in which he accused a prominent art dealer of fraud involving a 1996 Ross Bleckner painting.<\/p>\n<p>The actor told The New Yorker magazine that gallery owner Mary Boone agreed to write him a \u201cseven-figure check\u201d to settle his allegation she sold him a copy of Bleckner&#8217;s \u201cSea and Mirror\u201d rather than the original.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I&#8217;ll have Ross paint a picture of the seven-figure check that Mary paid me to settle,\u201d Baldwin, who paid $190,000 for the painting, told the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The parties informed a court of the agreement on Monday. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Boone told the New York Post&#8217;s \u201cPage Six\u201d column the dispute was fueled by sexism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust last week at the Paley Center, Alec Baldwin admitted to bullying women and treating women differently than men,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThis never would have happened the way it did if I was a male dealer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin told The New Yorker he plans to donate half of the settlement to help rebuild a Long Island cinema that was destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Alec Baldwin has settled a lawsuit in which he accused a prominent art dealer of fraud involving &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[32885,5966,32884,32886],"class_list":["post-130911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-1996-ross-bleckner-painting","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-new-york-art-dealer","tag-the-new-yorker-magazine","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}