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Cases about members of Académie des beaux-arts. Memberships appear only where Wikidata records one for the person the case is about: societies, clubs, fraternities, academies, parties and councils.
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- 2020Pierre Cardin's great-nephew found a will naming him sole heir to an €800 million estate, and a Paris court ruled it was not a willfashionunited.fr and 2 more
- 2001Daniel Wildenstein's widow said his sons hid the art fortune in trusts, and France prosecuted the heir for tax fraudArtnet News and 2 more
- 1989A Madrid judge had Salvador Dalí exhumed for a paternity test 28 years after his death, and the DNA said noThe Art Newspaper and 4 more
- 1986Thieves stole Henry Moore's 2-ton Reclining Figure, valued at 3 million pounds, from his foundation in 2005 and police believe it was sold for scrap worth under 3,000 poundstate.org.uk and 3 more
- 1985Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice sued his partner Oja Kodar, fought her over The Other Side of the Wind, and lost her claim to the Citizen Kane copyrightFindLaw Caselaw and 5 more
- 1901Giuseppe Verdi's villa was closed by a Parma court in 2022 over an heirs' fight, then taken by the state for about 7.6 million euros against a 30 million appraisalquotidiano.net and 4 more
- 1825France refused to take back Jacques-Louis David's body in 1825, so he lies in a Brussels cemetery under an obeliskpatrimoine.brussels and 2 more
- 1809Phrenologists stole Haydn's head after burial, and it was reunited with his body 145 years laterclassical-music.com and 2 more