Christie's cancels sale of late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten's jewelry over Nazi links_我的网站
A | 1月10日下午，小米集团在北京召开了新的自主品牌红米红米大会，并发布了该品牌的首款产品红米注7。 Christie's has canceled the second auction of jewels belonging to an Austrian billionaire, whose German husband made his fortune under the Nazis, following "intense scrutiny," it said Friday. The auction house held a first controversial online and in-person sale in Geneva of part of the large stash of more than 700 jewels in May, and had been scheduled to hold a second round in November.But in a statement it said "Christie's has taken the decision not to proceed with further sales of property from the Estate of Heidi Horten."This photograph taken on May 8, 2023, shows Christie's international head of jewellery, Rahul Kadakia, speaking on his phone behind a display case of jewels during a press preview of the "World of Heidi Horten" sales in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty With just a portion of the collection sold, the auction eclipsed previous records set by Christie's in sales of properties that belonged to actress Elizabeth Taylor in 2011 and the "Maharajas and Mughal Magnificence" collection in 2019, both of which exceeded $100 million. Hopes had been high for similar results from the second round. But following an initial report in the New York Times, Christie's sent a statement to AFP confirming that it had canceled the second round, acknowledging that "the sale of the Heidi Horten jewelry collection has provoked intense scrutiny.""The reaction to it has deeply affected us and many others, and we will continue to reflect on it," it said.
A large number of Jewish groups had asked Christie's to halt the initial Horten sale in May, describing it as "indecent" and demanding that the auction house do more to determine how much of it came from victims of the Nazis.
The extraordinary collection belonged to Horten, who died last year aged 81 with a fortune of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes.A report published in January 2022 by historians commissioned by the Horten Foundation said Horten's husband Helmut Horten, who died in Switzerland in 1987, had been a member of the Nazi party before being expelled.
"The Nazi Conspiracy": The WWII plot to kill FDR, Churchill and Stalin07:31In 1936, three years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Horten took over textile company Alsberg, based in the western city of Duisburg, after its Jewish owners fled. He later took over several other shops that had belonged to Jewish owners before the war.Christie's in May defended its decision to go ahead with the sale, with Christie's international head of jewelry Rahul Kadakia telling AFP that all of the proceeds would go towards charities.
"Christie's separately is making a significant donation towards Holocaust research and education," he said at the time, stressing that the "proceeds of the sale is going to do good."
B | 明米集团创始人、董事长兼首席执行官雷军当场开启了DISS模式，多次提及朋友和产品。会后，他在接受新浪科技等媒体采访时表示：“朋友和商人都很忙，我也很忙。我只是说生与死是无动于衷的，做任何你不同意的事。”雷军在采访中说，“小米跑之前，我是华为的大粉丝，我会接受郑飞的很多演讲。我也说过很多次了，国内品牌要团结起来，枪口要抬高一英尺。本质上，每个人都很平静，但后来朋友和商人分为一个子品牌，“从出生的那天起，有多低来了，在我五年里，我从来没有回应过。”“真正的性价比只有一个，我真的买了两个朋友的手机，真的学到了。不要害怕作比较。不要绘制渲染比较。雷军说，“真的让我又担心了，我会把流行科学的网屏技术缺陷。”前天，雷军决定拒绝并做这件事。他要求陆维兵做好自己的产品，教对手什么是划算的。
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