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== Art collecting == ''[[ARTnews]]'' has repeatedly listed Filipacchi among the world's top art collectors.<ref>For example, {{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2012/06/26/the-artnews-200-top-collectors/|title=The 2012 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors|date=26 June 2012|work=ARTnews|accessdate=29 April 2013}};{{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2009/07/01/the-artnews-200-top-collectors-2009/|title=The 2009 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors|date=1 July 2009|work=ARTnews|accessdate=29 April 2013}}</ref> Art from Filipacchi's collection formed part of the 1996 exhibit ''Private Passions'' at the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]].<ref>{{cite news|title=French Ask: Is Art Still a Hobby?: A Paris show says modern art is being collected.|work=The New York Times|date=January 30, 1996|author=Alan Riding|page=C11}}</ref> His collection (along with that of his best friend, the record producer [[Nesuhi Ertegün]]) was exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York in 1999 in ''Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections'' - an event described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as a "powerful exhibition", large enough to "pack the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] from ceiling to lobby".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/arts/art-review-trolling-the-mind-s-nooks-and-crannies-for-images.html|title=ART REVIEW; Trolling the Mind's Nooks and Crannies for Images|last=Glueck|first=Grace|date=4 June 1999|work=The New York Times|page=31|accessdate=29 April 2013}}</ref> Although Filipacchi sued the Paris gallery which sold him a fake "[[Max Ernst]]" painting in 2006 for US$7 million, he called its notorious forger [[Wolfgang Beltracchi]] (freed on 9 January 2015 after serving three years in prison for his forgeries) a "genius" in a 2012 interview.<ref name=VF>Hammer, Joshua. [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/wolfgang-beltracchi-helene-art-scam The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?], ''Vanity Fair'', 10 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.</ref>
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