Vanity Fair Notes Taubman Family Disputes, Guarantee Increase in Sotheby’s Sale this Week

November 2nd, 2015

An article in Vanity Fair traces the controversies of the Taubman family in recent years as patriarch Alfred Taubman’s estate goes to auction at Sotheby’s this week, including a note on the estate’s inflated guarantee.  “Bobby [Taubman] is a board member; he’s supposed to increase shareholder value,” says one anonymous insider.  “It’s going to be very hard for Sotheby’s to earn out that guarantee.”

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