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The Great Art Fraud Premieres on BBC Two and Recasts Inigo Philbrick’s Scandal

The two-part film features Philbrick speaking on camera to examine how market opacity enabled an $86 million scheme.

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Overview

  • The documentary airs August 27–28 on BBC Two and will be available to stream on iPlayer.
  • The Times gives the series a five-star review, praising its access and clear unpacking of the case.
  • Philbrick appears on camera after serving less than half of his seven-year US sentence for defrauding clients.
  • Prosecutors said he sold overlapping stakes, reused artworks as loan collateral, forged documents, and inflated prices to extract more than $86 million.
  • He fled to Vanuatu before his 2020 arrest, and coverage also notes his later home detention, marriage to Victoria Baker-Harber, and two young children.