A New Jersey Auction House Is Selling Jeffrey Epstein’s Art Collection—But Don’t Expect Any Masterpieces

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New Jersey’s Millea Bros. auction house has sold artworks and furnishings owned by the late convicted sex offender and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, to the tune of some $100,000 in sales so far, according to reporting in the New York Post, which adds that more items are still on their way to the auction block. 

The Post reports that more than two dozen decorative items from the sales appear in photos of the financier’s Upper East Side mansion published by federal authorities. The sales have been ongoing since June, when the majority of the Epstein items sold, says the paper, and a second round of sales commenced last week.

The descriptions of the lots associated with Epstein make no mention of the the notorious figure in the listed provenance, meaning that unsuspecting people may have purchased artifacts associated with the financier, who died by suicide in 2019 while in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. But a lawyer representing Epstein’s estate did confirm that the estate organized a sale last year. 

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