Bernie Madoff’s victims are finally putting their art collections on the block. Prominent Madoff associate Ezra Merkin sold his art collection–which included several pieces by Mark Rothko—for $310 million in July. But there was someone other than Merkin getting rich: his unknown art dealer—identified only as “TLIA, LLC ”—made $26.5 million from the sale. Bloomberg reports that the company is registered to the retired art collector and advisor Ben Heller, who declined to comment, but who revealed that he was a Madoff victim earlier this year.
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