My friend who lives in Niagara Falls sent me an email with an article written in Russian by Pauline Larina.
She says in the article that recently well-known actor Bradley Cooper during audit could not explain for what he paid $300,000 to artist XYZ (I can’t give the real name in the article because I found on internet several artists with this name).
Later under pressure from the media Bradley Cooper said that he paid money to the artist for the promise not to paint his portrait.
it was found that several other celebrities paid large sums of money to the same artist to prevent his painting of their portraits.
Why did they do it?
Almost 30 years ago XYZ painted a portrait of a couple. His customers praised the portrait and hanged it in their living room. And six months later they died in a car accident.
Later journalists discovered that about 60% of people whose portraits XYZ painted did not die a natural death.
The story became public and XYZ found himself on the verge of poverty.
He offered several rich people to paint their portraits. They politely refused. This did not stop XYZ. He created their portraits and sent to them. Portraits came back immediately together with checks and requests to destroy them and not to paint new portraits.
For many years XYZ enjoyed a very good lifestyle.
Is he still getting money from frightened rich people?
Pauline did not say anything about it.
Should we believe the story? What’s your opinion?
scary story! would make a super duper horror movie plot. But as they say fear and greed drive markets, same may be the case in XYZ life.
It’s only part 1!
oops 🙂
It sounds like one of those urban legends and ole wives’ tales.
I guess I’m going to have to make it back here for part 2, then, because now I’m hooked. Either way, I’m not letting anyone paint my picture until I hear the ending. Lol.
Good! I like it when readers want to know more. 😉
Great premise for a TV or movie series. Just think, if this guy was a paparazzi guy, he or she could make a lot of money today from rich celebrities. Looking forward to your next post. Then again he might make even make more money if good things would happen to the people he or sher took a picture of?
Regards and good will blogging. .
PS. you are a camera guy. Don’t paparazzi sell their pictures and make a lot of money? Maybe you should copywright your post.????
Please read part 2. Then part 3 will come and then some words about Mona Lisa.
I don’t need to copywright anything as we are waiting for a huge win in Mega Millions.
My wife told me that we must not be in a hurry to win, we can wait as long as it takes. 😉
Good luck on the Mega. Good things are worth waiting for. I agree.
Regards and good will blogging.
Hope prolongs lives. 😉
If hope prolongs lives, then I hope you keep on hoping..
Regards and good will blogging.
It’s the only way!