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THIS EUROPE: Billionaire back in court to claim his pharaoh is a phoney.(Foreign News)
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The Independent (London, England)
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September 12, 2003| Author:
Lichfield, John
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Byline: John Lichfield in Paris
THE SELF-MADE French billionaire Francois Pinault was so delighted with his EUR770,000 purchase of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian antiquity that he invited his friend President Jacques Chirac to admire his new possession over dinner.
His delight did not last long. Soon afterwards, M. Pinault, founder of a business empire that controls Gucci and the Printemps stores, was warned by a German Egyptologist that the statuette might be a fa...