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Ex-owner of Coconut Grove gallery sentenced in fake Warhol scheme

Original: Ex-owner of Coconut Grove art gallery gets prison in fake Andy Warhol scheme

The former owner of a Coconut Grove art gallery has been sentenced to prison for a scheme involving counterfeit Andy Warhol works. The case, covered by South Florida media, adds to a string of recent art fraud prosecutions involving high-profile names, underscoring persistent forgery problems in the art market and drawing attention in the Miami gallery community.

Why now: A local art-world fraud case ending in a prison sentence is drawing public attention to counterfeit works attributed to Andy Warhol.

Coconut GroveAndy WarholNBC 6 South Florida

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