Cartoonist Who Forged Classic Norman Rockwell Painting Left Kids A Huge Payoff When They Found The Original

Cartoonist Who Forged Classic Norman Rockwell Painting Left Kids A Huge Payoff When They Found The Original
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A Vermont cartoonist who forged a copy of an original Norman Rockwell painting so he could keep the original from his wife's divorce lawyer ended up leaving his adult children a multi-million-dollar payoff years after his death.

Don Trachte, who died in 2005 at age 89, displayed the forgery in his home but kept the original 1954  painting Breaking Home Ties behind a hidden sliding door behind a bookcase in his studio.

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