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Snailracer ago

The banana taped to a wall was bought by billionaire Billy Cox, the Bancroft heir who sold Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal to News Corp in 2007. The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is the same guy who made the anti-Trump gold toilet which was stolen from Blenheim Palace. The banana purchase could easily be a payoff from the proceeds of the theft of the toilet or insurance fraud of same. No proof though.

MercurysBall ago

Billy and Beatrice Cox, new owners of $120K Art Basel banana, speak out - https://pagesix.com/2019/12/09/billy-and-beatrice-cox-new-owners-of-notorious-art-basel-banana-piece-speak-out/

We’re told Billy Cox is an heir to the Bancroft family, which sold its shares of Dow Jones to News Corp. for more than $5 billion in 2007.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancroft_family

The Bancrofts are a family of publicly reclusive Boston socialites who inherited The Wall Street Journal from Clarence W. Barron, who as a publisher built up the reputation of that newspaper.[1] Upon Barron's death in 1928, control of the company passed to his stepdaughters Jane and Martha, children of his wife, Jessie Waldron. Barron's son-in-law and Jane's husband, Harvard-educated lawyer Hugh Bancroft (1879-1933), ran the company and the paper for the next five years. Suffering from depression, Bancroft committed suicide in 1933 at the age of 54. The family members maintained ownership of the company through ensuing generations, though management was placed in the hands of capable professionals, like Journal editor Bernard Kilgore.[2]

A notable family member of the following generation was Mary Bancroft (1903-1997), Hugh Bancroft's only daughter by his first marriage to Mary Agnes Cogan (1879-1903). She worked for U.S. intelligence in Switzerland during World War II.[3][4] She wrote novels and a memoir, Autobiography of a Spy,[5] before dying in 1997 at age ninety-three. She was survived by six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

Jane Bancroft's daughter Jessie Bancroft Cox was another prominent member of the second generation. Her husband, son, and grandson — William C. Cox, Bill Cox Jr., and Billy Cox III, respectively — were "the only Bancrofts to have actually worked at Dow Jones since Hugh Bancroft's suicide."

MercurysBall ago

Mary Bancroft https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-bancroft-1279184.html

Mary Bancroft was that rarity in real life, a glamorous upper- class spy. She reached that condition by the tried and tested method of having a love affair with a man who was himself one of the most important spies of the Second World War and went on to be the most celebrated chief of America's Central Intelligence agency....[Allen Dulles (MKUltra)]

‘The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government’ - http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/16719

Mary Bancroft recalled that the emotionally dead Dulles’s favorite word was “useful.” People were only good to him if they were useful. His daughter Joan told Talbot that her father was “clearly not interested in us.” A grinning Dulles once told Mary that his feigned bonhomie, his avuncular demeanor, and trusting attitude toward people were an act. He said, “I like to watch the little mice sniffing at the cheese just before they venture into the little trap. I like to see their expressions when it snaps shut, breaking their little necks.”

..Ruth Paine was the Dallas housewife who had befriended Marina Oswald and taken her—and Lee Harvey on weekends—to live with her. She was the key witness for the Warren Commission. It was at her home where incriminating evidence against Oswald was found. The Paine’s connection to the CIA, Dulles’s network, and other CIA operations, confirmed by excellent researchers in great detail, escapes him, although he does note their connection to Mary Bancroft, Dulles’s former mistress. Of the Paines he writes, “In their immaculate innocence, the Paines played right into the hands of those who were manipulating Oswald.” I’m afraid Talbot is the innocent here. The Paines are very important figures in the assassination and seeing them clearly would add to his powerful thesis. Perhaps he was tired at this point in his pursuit of the satanic Dulles.