The case of the promise of state glory, revealing the secrets of the artificial dynasty.

How the widow's lawsuit against the Wildenstein family from France threatens their famous collection and exposes the underground world of the global art market.

Twenty years ago, a distressed blonde widow in tears appeared at Claude Dumont Begui's law office in Paris.

Someone tried to take her horses - her "children" - and she needed a lawyer to stop them. She explained that her late husband was a breeder of champion racehorses. The couple was familiar with the racetracks in Chantilly and Paris: Daniel Wildenstein in a gray suit with a cane in the stands and Sylvia Roth Wildenstein, a former model with a cigarette in her mouth. They first met in 1964 when she was attending fashion shows in Paris, and he was in a marriage of convenience with a woman from another wealthy Jewish family of art collectors.