The Crime Blotter

Sassy Subway Punks Lift The Loot and Catch Action on Film

If you’ve committed a crime and nobody knows about it except your victim, did it actually occur? That’s the existential question that three female teenage thugs may have been attempting to address on Feb. 8 when they assaulted a couple of 14-year-olds on Read More

Hungry Bidders Watch as the Feds Rough Up Sotheby’s, Christie’s

When a three-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into alleged price fixing by Sotheby’s International Holdings and Christie’s International P.L.C. precipitated the resignations of Sotheby’s chairman and chief executive on Feb. 21, the act was seen as a fall-on-one’s-sword gesture to buy good faith with the Feds and stockholders.

But in an interview Read More

Arnault Eyeballs Calvin Klein from Glass House on 57th Street

A week after Calvin Klein announced that he had hired Lazard

Frères & Company to help him consider the sale of his company, Bernard

Arnault, the man deemed the most likely buyer, was in Manhattan to conduct a

little business of his own.

Mr. Arnault, the chairman of luxury giant LVMH-Moët Hennessy

Louis Vuitton, Read More