Alfred Taubman

Alfred Taubman is a U.S. businessman and former director of media firm Hollinger International. He was formerly the principal owner and chairman of Sotheby's, where, in 2002, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $7.5 million for leading a six-year price-fixing scheme with its rival Christie's that swindled auction house customers out of more than $100 million^[1]