Dear David, as I told you in my previous letter, I met through a good friend/client of mine a very important person from a well-known auction house. He is the CEO of that well-known auction house, Cristies. Short story: his desire was to pay me to have sex with some of his clients. To convince that art collectors through sex to bid for a very specific lot.
But, let’s start with the beginning. So, before the coronavirus, a friend invited me to dinner to meet a French guy, CEO at an auction house. They spoke before about me so they knew that I am an art student, I am speaking four languages and I am a gay escort too.
Guilaumo, the CEO, told me that he was thinking of me how we can collaborate. Even if I didn’t ask for that meeting or collaboration. Anyway, I am always open to meet new interesting people and to make new clients. Knowing that I was studying art history at a very good university, he offered me an internship at Cristies for 6 months. Unpaid! I told him that I don’t like this kind of joke. I don’t want to spend 6 months of my life working there as an employee and being unpaid. I am not interested. Maybe for a lot of people, for a lot of my colleagues than can be a step inside of the art world, but if I will be there for so much time I will lose a lot of money. Which I don’t want to do that now.
He asked me what I want to do after I will finish my studies at the university. I said that I am looking for a master’s program and I asked about their art institute that Cristies have. Guilaumo told me: Because I met you through our friend I am very honest with you. Our master’s program is shit! It is poorly managed by 3 very old and ugly women. One is a lesbian, one is a drunker and one is at the beginning of Alzheimer’s. All are very unhappy with their stupid personal life! For real! Those women are such a crap! They don’t know how to manage a school, they don’t know how to use technology, and they don’t know how to treat their students. The students are their clients! Unhappy clients! They don’t want to realize that they should kiss their asses because their salaries are paid from student’s tuition. Very expensive tuition! I received so many complaints from students because of their bad management and how poor they treat their students… Here in London, all the programs at Cristies are a crap! They don’t even have proper teachers for any of the studies. Cristies at this stupid school managed poorly by stupid ladies are just pretenders! So, my advice to you is to not go there, if you are really interested to learn more about art. You will just lose a lot of money for nothing. And they are not good or nice people at all. They treat their students bad, very bad! Horrible! Go to Sotheby’s Institute of Art if you really want to learn about art and how an auction house works. Sotheby’s are doing excellent with their master’s programme! I said that I heard a lot of bullshit about CE but now knowing exactly – from their CEO – I thanks him very much for this very honest advice and I know that will never apply there.
Then we talked about gay collectors in the art world. And how much money we can make. Guilaumo told me he has few guys in mind that I even marry them if I want because they are too old, too stupid, and full of money.
He told to me and to our mutual friend at that dinner how some of his employees make a lot of extra money from few contemporary artists, art advisors, and gallerists, stilling from the auction house, from Cristies. And he gives us some examples of people who steal money from the auction house and making shady arrangements, especially with gallerists to put in an auction some artists and to grow names for some contemporary artists. One of his examples, precisely, was Thadaeus, Ghenee, and Christopher Alboo (one is a gallerist, the other one is a painter and the last one is an International Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art department at Cristies)!
I told to Guilaumo if he is the CEO of that auction house, how come that he didn’t care about this employee – Alboo – that is stealing from Cristies. he said that he didn’t care because the company makes a profit anyway and the owner, Frank Pino have so much money that he can’t count when some employees like Alboo steal from him if that company is still on profit! Really, Pino? WOW! I was shocked to hear that! I mean, really? I don’t think the Artemix group or Pino will be happy to know that…
The conversation moved to another subject. If we agree to collaborate on how the company can pay me – officially – as an art adviser or specialist for example. I told to him that I am self-employed and no worries about that. He really told me that he wanted to send me at some specific clients/collectors and to have sex with them for money, and to convince them through sex to bid for a very specific lot. We still need to meet again and to talk more about details. Maybe after Corona. Maybe if he will still be in charge as a CEO of Cristies!
At the end of the evening, he was polite and he offered me to go home with his car. On the way home, we discuss some other private matter, very important, that I can’t even tell you, David. But I can tell you that. When I was in his car a very dear friend of mine and a mentor to me, called me. Guilaumo saw his name on my iPhone screen. Then we realize that we have very important friends in common. Like this one who just called and who is part of the Bilderberg group for so many years. Life is full of surprises! Sometimes nice ones! 🙂
Yours,
Il Principe AG
PS
I am writing in this… bad English because I don’t know better English. It is not my mother tongue. But Bad English is still Good English! And I prefer to be better with tongue doing other… stuff.