It’s not hard to lose something, especially when you’ve been drinking.  Losing a prototype iPhone is bad, but when you misplace a million-dollar art masterpiece, that’s when you get in serious trouble.  That’s the allegation filed by Kristyn Trudgeon, majority owner of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot’s “Portrait of a Girl,” against art courier James Carl Haggerty.  She says that the art courier got drunk and lost the $1.3 million-dollar painting he was supposed to be showing to a potential buyer at New York City’s The Mark Hotel.

“I think he’s a complete, fumbling idiot,” Trudgeon said, summing the situation up nicely.  To make matters worse, he didn’t even tell Trudgeon; Haggerty told co-owner Tom Doyle and made him deliver the bad news to the person who owns the most of the work.  Add in the fact that an August 9th polygraph detected deception in Haggerty’s testimony, and it’s no wonder she’s suing the courier for the lost painting’s full value.

Image:  Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Complete Works

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