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BERLIN, May 31 (UPI) -- American comedic actor Steve Martin was among those caught up in one of Germany's biggest art forgery scandals since World War II, officials said.
Martin bought a purported Heinrich Campendonk painting, "Landscape With Horses," which officials believe is a fake, for about $850,000 in 2004 from a Paris gallery and later sold it at a loss of about $287,805, Der Spiegel reported Tuesday.
Investigators said they believe the phony Campendonk was from either the invented "Knops" or "Jagers" art collections created by a group of German swindlers police rounded up in 2010. Chief suspect Wolfgang Beltracchi, Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus and two sisters are suspected of selling dozens of forged paintings since 2001, possibly even earlier.
Der Spiegel said the four allegedly attributed almost all of the forged works to artists from the first half of the 20th century, including Campendonk, Max Pechstein, Fernand Leger and Max Ernst.
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When he bowed out of actively campaigning to capture the Republican presidential nomination, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul said he wasn't interested in disrupting the party's national convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.
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