Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the many mysteries that the author Michael Finkel hoped to untangle when he first began interviewing the world’s most ...

Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser was an art junkie, and to get his fix, he stole some 239 works of art with an estimated value of a whopping $2 billion — from as many as 200 museums all over Europe. One ...

Tourists walk in the atelier of the Rubens house in Flanders, Belgium, an institution from which Stéphane Breitwieser stole an ivory statue. Mark Renders/Getty Images Most of us sail through life ...

The first thing Stéphane Breitwieser steals from Belgium’s Art & History Museum is an index card. Folded in half and set inside a partially empty display case, it reads, in French, “Objects Removed ...

Back in 1982, and amid the proliferation of “Handbooks,” John and Porter Freund released The Official MBA Handbook. It was a tongue-in-cheek guide for MBAs eager to prosper, and my MBA father ...

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I’ve eagerly awaited The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, Michael Finkel’s book on Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole several billion dollars worth of art from more than ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the end, the "gentleman thief" broke down like a boy. Stephane ...

“Double Portrait of Elector John Frederick of Saxony and His wife Sibylle of Cleve,” which was stolen by Stéphane Breitwieser and presumably destroyed (via Wikimedia Commons) As the saying goes, do ...