The $50 Million Art Swindle

Acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tracks down the charlatan art dealer Michel Cohen - who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run - 16 years after his escape from prison.
　　Michel Cohen, a high school drop-out from a poor background, was a self-invented man who became a rich and successful art dealer, with homes in Malibu and New York.
　　Throughout the 1990s he sold paintings by artists such as Picasso, Monet and Chagall to America’s wealthiest elite. Cohen lived the high life until he began trading recklessly in the stock market and ran up considerable debts. In an attempt to recoup his losses, he swindled private collectors, auction houses and other art dealers out of more than $50 million.
　　When his swindles were discovered he went on the run with his wife and two small children, and in 2003 he was found by Interpol in Brazil and was imprisoned in Rio de Janeiro. Seven months later, whilst awaiting extradition to America, he escaped from prison and vanished off the face of the earth.
　　Filmmaker Vanessa Engle manages to locate Michel and he shares his extraordinary story of greed, motive and morality.