Robert De Niro's art dealer found guilty of fraud

Robert De Niro Sr., Dora, 1960 - Oil on canvas

Leigh Morse, the former director of Salander-O’Reilly Galleries and once an art dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was convicted in a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the estates of artists including painter Stuart Davis. Morse, 55, was found guilty today by a New York jury of one count of scheming to defraud. She was found not guilty of a grand larceny count alleging the theft of $65,000 from De Niro, who testified at the trial in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The jury of eight men and four women reached a decision in its fifth day of deliberations. Morse, in a brief statement, said she was "deeply sorry" for the pain her clients had endured but maintained that she was unaware of any fraud.

Robert De Niro Sr. was a WPA artist who lived amongst the other artists of the New York Art Scene - Pollock, Krasner, etc - who married fellow artist Virginia Admiral, De Niro Jr.'s mother.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5017930/The-bohemian-life-of-Robert-De-Niro-senior.html