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The owner of a closed Manhattan art gallery that once boasted a star-studded clientele was arrested again Tuesday on charges of carrying out an art fraud that now totals $93 million.
The owner of a closed Manhattan art gallery has been charged with stealing $5 million from several estates, including that of American abstract expressionist painter Robert DeNiro Sr.
Retiring Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau on Thursday endorsed a former deputy, Cyrus Vance Jr., to succeed him in the office he has held for 34 years.
Brooke Astor's son claimed she asked him in 2003 whether he wanted all her $198 million fortune, but the aged philanthropist didn't mean it literally, her estate planning lawyer testified Thursday.
Television personality Barbara Walters and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified Thursday that in her final years socialite Brooke Astor was unable to recognize people she had known for decades.
A movie producer gave another glimpse of philanthropist Brooke Astor's life and mental decline Monday when he testified that despite her love for actor Matthew Broderick she didn't recognize him when he spoke to her in a restaurant.
A judge says a Georgia man who was convicted of stalking Tyra Banks won't go to jail but should get counseling.
A Georgia man who told police he and Tyra Banks "had a thing together" was convicted Thursday of stalking the supermodel-turned-TV host.
They had been friends for 60 years, but socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor had no idea who Louis Auchincloss was when they met at a luncheon in 2001, the author-attorney testified Thursday.
A Georgia man who told police he and Tyra Banks "had a thing together" was convicted Thursday of stalking the supermodel-turned-TV host.
A former employee of hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin claims Merkin was warned about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff years before losing tens of millions of dollars of investors' money in Madoff's Ponzi scheme, according to court papers unsealed Friday.
A Georgia man accused of stalking Tyra Banks was simply responding to the model-turned-TV host's invitation for fans to reach out to her when he followed her from coast to coast, a defense lawyer said Friday.
A Chinese businessman accused of helping Iran's military buy materials to make nuclear weapons has been indicted on charges of illegally sending millions of dollars through New York City banks, Manhattan's chief prosecutor said Tuesday.
A gun possession case against New York Giants star Plaxico Burress was adjourned Tuesday until June unless he reaches a plea agreement with prosecutors to resolve the matter sooner.
A woman seeking millions for injuries suffered in the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center testified Tuesday that she almost lost her will to live while she lay trapped and bleeding in the rubble, heat and smoke.
The parents of a 23-year-old killed by cancer are not entitled to use their dead son's preserved sperm so they can have a grandchild, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's announcement that he would retire after a five-decade career that brought him national recognition set in motion a flurry of jostling among leading contenders for one of the most coveted prosecutor jobs in the nation.
A lawyer has sued his ex-wife to try to recover millions of dollars he paid in a divorce agreement that he says was based on their belief they had $5.4 million invested with fraud suspect Bernard Madoff.
A judge has issued New York state's first ruling that the survivor of a legal same-sex marriage is entitled to inherit a dead spouse's estate.
A lawyer for a man accused of stabbing four people during a 13-hour rampage in 2006 told jurors Friday that his client was mentally ill and not responsible for his actions.
A former television show host who tried to parachute off the Empire State Building was sentenced Thursday to probation and community service for the stunt.
A legal fight over seven nude and seminude photographs taken during Marilyn Monroe's "Last Sitting" has been settled amicably, both sides of the dispute said Monday.
A counselor with the city's Department of Juvenile Justice was charged Tuesday with the rape and sexual abuse of three teenage girls who were in his custody at family court.
A former host of a TV stunt show put himself and others in danger because he was reckless and selfish enough to try to parachute from the Empire State Building 2 1/2 years ago, a prosecutor told jurors Friday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg pulled off a stunning victory Thursday in getting New York City's term-limits law changed so that he can run for a third term, but the billionaire isn't likely to start campaigning until he mends some frayed relationships.
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