Leonardo Outbid on Leonardo Ripoff
January 6 2022
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
An amusing story from the world of celebrity gossip this week. Hollywood actor Leonardo di Caprio was supposedly outbid on a painting known as "Mona Lisa Bull Fighter" by at a UNICEF gala in St Barts a few days ago. The $1m work, clearly a rip-off by another famous Leonardo, was produced by Domingo Zapata, an artist whose works di Caprio is said to collect.
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