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TimeOutofJoint ago

Yes, Getty Museum has tunnels. I've been in the tunnels myself when Getty used to be a client of mine. Didn't think much of it at the time, but when I went to visit we went to an underground conference room through tunnels. They have some great art at the Getty museum (I'm not talking about weird modern stuff). Hope the art is protected from the fires.

bb22 ago

All of the very expensive art being brought into the place is a major red flag too.

We already know from many other research threads here and elsewhere that valuable art is allowed customs exceptions and is apparently how many children are trafficked and allowed to bypass customs agents. Alefantis is big into expensive art too remember, and by some weird ass people.

J. Paul Getty had that museum built on his private property himself before he died. He was an oil industrialist that had his hands in everything and was declared the richest man in the world by Fortune magazine in 1957 (not that that would have been any truer back then than saying Bill Gates or whatever other non-banker lightweight is the richest guy in the world today).

EvaEverywhere ago

"All of the very expensive art being brought into the place is a major red flag too."

As in? Getty's entire purpose is to house art perceived to have monetary and cultural value to the history of the United States. Sure, art is a medium used to hide criminal transactions at the very top... but these are mostly facilitated via commercial art galleries and brokers and the percentage of trash art (the more dubious of modern art) is under-represented in their collection.

The art donation game is a tax haven scheme. If you perceive this to be used for influence, access, etc. you can probably support it by making a list of donors and seeing if it's full of usual suspects.