It has been revealed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince was actually the buyer of a $450.3million Leonardo da Vinci painting- and that his obscure cousin, who reportedly bought it, was actually just used as a proxy for the purchase. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) in fact, bought the record breaking da Vinci painting of Christ according to U.S. government intelligence and a Saudi art-world figure familiar with the purchase, according to the Wall Street Journal. Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud (inset), a lesser-known figure and a distant relative of the crown prince, was the named winner of the auction, held at Christie's in November. The Saudi art-world figure said, 'but he is a proxy for MBS (Mohammed bin Salman).'...read
Revealed: Saudi Crown Prince is the ACTUAL buyer of $450M Leonardo da Vinci painting after he used an obscure royal cousin as his proxy to make the record purchase sale at a NYC auction
07/12/17 21:57
