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Nov 30, 2021 • 8 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
Italian auto heir Johnny Pigozzi , Galerie Gmurzynska , Art Basel and tales of art trafficking #amfAR #ARK 🧵

In 2017 notorious Galerie Gmurzynska hosted Johnny Pigozzi & friends.. like Paris Hilton , Hannah Bronfman #NXIVM

vogue.com/slideshow/gale…

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And again here in 2017 Jean "Johnny" Pigozzi at Galerie Gmurzynska , St Moritz .. his #Cannes pool parties are famous among the A listers and the #amfAR gala crowd..

he says he keeps the pool-toy industry afloat..

news.artnet.com/art-world/jean…

In 2013/14, the Zurich based Galerie Gmurzynska was raided by the Swiss Federal Customs Administration regarding VAT on imported artworks worth 85M Swiss Francs supplied by the Gmurzynska gallery to the Dolder Grand Hotel, owned by Urs Schwarzenbach.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerie_G… ImageImageImage
Urs Schwarzenbach is a good friend of Prince Charles .. Prince Harry came to stay at his pad in Australia during Harry's gap year.

His wife at the christening of the daughter of The Earl and Countess of Wessex .. ImageImageImageImage
Urs Schwarzenbach backed the racing-themed restaurant Café Grand Prix in Mayfair, London, but this went into liquidation in 2004.

CAFÉ GRAND PRIX SA moneyhouse.ch/de/company/caf… > Dolder Fine Art AG

Director: Dr. Ulrich A. Kohli - Urs's lawyer
james-douglas.ch/images/press_r… ImageImageImage
In 2020 went on trial for tax evasion nzzas.nzz.ch/schweiz/ulrich…

"he told journalists about encounters with Donald Trump and Michael Jackson...He once bought two apartments from the still-US president in his tower in New York"

He also appeared in the Uri Geller film Mindbender .. ImageImage
Ulrich Kohli in the 1970s was chief counsel for Bank Julius Baer

His client: Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei

"he had letters of thanks from George W. Bush. As a donor, he was accepted into an “Inner Circle.”

tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/…

In January 2020 the Dolder Grand Hotel were hosts to the Chinese delegation for #WEF .. not sure why as the hotel is in Zurich , not Geneva

issuu.com/thedoldergrand…

"The Story of China’s Economic Rise Unfolds in Switzerland" archive.md/wRnH2 ImageImageImage

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