New York, Sep 02 (ANI): A Manhattan man has landed in legal trouble for losing a 1.35-million-dollar Jean Baptiste Camille Corot masterpiece.
James Haggerty has said that the masterpiece "Portrait of a Girl," vanished following a booze bender at The Mark hotel.
But the artwork's co-owner, Kristyn Trudgeon, isn't buying his tale.
"I think he's a complete fumbling idiot," the New York Daily News quoted a visibly annoyed Trudgeon as saying outside her West Side apartment.
"He's just a complete a-hole."
Trudgeon and Tom Doyle, who co-own the painting, had hired Haggerty, an old pal, to assist with a possible sale of "Portrait of a Girl" to London gallery owner Offer Waterman.
A July 28 afternoon appointment in Doyle's Empire State Building office fell apart when the Brit wanted a closer look at the painting.
The suit has been filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
"We're skeptical as to the explanation," said Max DiFabio, a lawyer for Trudgeon.(ANI)
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