As prosecutors told it, Douglas Chrismas, once known as one of the nation’s leading dealers of contemporary art, was a man so consumed by greed and ego that he embezzled hundreds of thousands of ...

Douglas Chrismas, who was found guilty last May on three counts of embezzlement from his gallery’s bankruptcy estate, is to report to prison on Feb. 17. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Los Angeles ...

A jury in Los Angeles has convicted art dealer Douglas Chrismas on three counts of embezzling money from Ace Gallery, which he founded and ran for a more than a half-century. In 2013, the business ...

A Los Angeles art dealer was sentenced Monday to two years behind bars for embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate of Ace Gallery, a Miracle Mile-based art gallery, while acting as ...

In the likely financial conclusion of a years-long bankruptcy case, the former art dealer Douglas Chrismas has been ordered by a California court to hand over more than $14 million to an unnamed group ...

Douglas Chrismas, the 80-year-old founder of Ace Gallery and for years an influential figure in the Los Angeles art world, was sentenced on Monday (13 January) to two years in federal prison after ...

Former gallerist Douglas Chrismas has been ordered to repay $14.2m in profits from sales of artworks at his former gallery that he diverted into personal accounts. The summary judgment handed down on ...