Sabine Boghici, 49, dies after falling from balcony in Rio de Janeiro: Actress and heiress was once arrested for scamming mom out of $148.8 million in artwork, jewelry and money
- Sabine Boghici died after she fell from the fifth-floor balcony of her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The 49-year-old is the heiress to one of the largest art collections in Brazil and
- Boghici along with her wife and two other people were arrested in 2022 for scamming her mother out of $148.8 in artwork, jewelry and money
Brazilian authorities are investigating the mysterious death of an actress and heiress who fell from the fifth-floor balcony of her apartment building.
Sabine Boghici, 49, was found in front of the Rio de Janeiro residence on September 14 and rushed to Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital, where she died from her injuries.
Authorities have been looking into the death as a possible suicide after investigators searched her home and found a note she had left behind for her wife, Rosa Stanesco, who is currently in prison.
Boghici is the daughter of one of Brazil’s biggest art collector, Jean Boghici, who died in 2015. He was born in Romania in 1928 and moved to Brazil with Jewish friends in 1948.
She and Stanesco were arrested in August 2022 for scamming Sabine Boghici’s mother, Genevieve Boghici, out of $148.8 million in artwork, jewelry and money.
Sabine Boghici died September 14 after she fell from the balcony of her 5th floor apartment in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian actress and heiress was 49 years old
Sabine Boghici went to jail in August 2022 and was conditionally released in March for scamming her mother Genevieve Boghici (right) out of $148.8 million in artwork, jewelry and money. Her father was Jean Boghici (left), who at the time of his death in 2015 was considered Brazil’s biggest art collector
Rio de Janeiro Civil Police investigators said that Sabine plotted against her mother in 2020 and hired a woman who approached her mother and told her that a family member was on the verge of dying.
The woman, who identified herself as a physic, presented her to two other women, a fortune teller and a saint’s mother, who went along with the scam and convinced Genevieve Boghici to make payments for a ‘job’ to preserve her daughter’s life.
The plan appeared to work immediately, and Sabine Boghici made believe that she feared for her own well-being and got her mother to pay $1 million during a span of 15 days for the spiritual work.
Police recovered Tarsila do Amaral’s painting titled ‘Sol Poente,’ one of 16 artworks worth $145 million that Brazilian actress and heiress Sabine Boghici was able to steal from her elderly mother
Brazilian actress and heiress Sabine Boghici along with her wife and two other suspects swindled her mother out of paintings worth $145 million, $1 million worth of jewelry, and $2.8 million in payments
Brazilian police remove a painting recovered from Sabine Boghici following her August 2022 arrest
Sabine made sure to keep her elderly mother at home and fired employees and caretakers.
But her mother sensed something was off in February 2022 because of her daughter’s strong ties to the fake psychics and paused all payments.
Authorities discovered that Sabine and her accomplices stole 16 Tarsila do Amaral and Emiliano Di Calvacanti paintings worth $145 million, $1 million worth of jewelry, and $2.8 million in payments.
A court granted her conditional release from prison in March.
Under terms of the release, she was not allowed to travel outside of Rio de Janeiro for more than 10 days and had to turn in her passport.
She was also barred from contacting her mother and witnesses, and had to remain 1,600 feet away from her mother.
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