Ending on a Sour Note How the World's Top Stradivarius Dealer Misplayed

Dietmar Machold was the world's most successful dealer of Stradivari instruments -- and probably a fraud. Many instruments have disappeared, while creditors are demanding 100 million that is owed to them. Once a high society favorite who lived in a castle, Machold now awaits trial in a Vienna prison.

Von Carsten Holm