The lives of Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, two notorious forgers, are examined. De Hory, who eventually committed suicide to escape additional prison time, earned a name for himself by selling forgeries of Picasso and Matisse paintings. Irving gained notoriety for penning a fictitious memoirs of Howard Hughes. Welles analyzes the essential aspects of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others by alternating between reality and fiction.
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The lives of Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, two notorious forgers, are examined. De Hory, who eventually committed suicide to escape additional prison time, earned a name for himself by selling forgeries of Picasso and Matisse paintings. Irving gained notoriety for penning a fictitious memoirs of Howard Hughes. Welles analyzes the essential aspects of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others by alternating between reality and fiction.
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