Alec Wildenstein, 67, Art Dealer, Horseman in Scandalous Divorce
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Alec Wildenstein, who died February 17 in Paris, was a horse racing and art gallery mogul with few peers in either of those worlds. But he burst upon the New York scene in 1997 for the tabloid divorce of the decade, a tale shot through with bad behavior and pathologies of wealth including multiple mistresses, compulsive shopping, and face-lifts gone haywire.
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