Swanky NYC artwork collector busted for allegedly shoving fellow scion in Hamptons

A outstanding New York Metropolis artwork gallerist and collector was arrested at a swanky Montauk hideaway earlier this month for allegedly trespassing and shoving a fellow seller.

Adam Lindemann, 61, was taken into custody by the East Hampton City Police and charged with third diploma felony trespass and second diploma harassment July 5, in keeping with the police record published in the East Hampton Town Press. 

Lindemann entered a “personal property — via an open driveway gate with a ‘No Trespassing’ signal on it — and went right into a constructing used as an artwork gallery with out permission,” cops stated.

He then allegedly pushed the guy seller within the chest.

The East Hampton Police have been unable to offer extra data Friday, however Lindemann’s lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., confirmed to The Submit that the property his consumer entered is The Ranch, a 26-acre horse farm-turned-art gallery on Previous Montauk Freeway owned by former Marlborough Gallery staffer Max Levai.

Burke additionally recognized Levai as the person his consumer allegedly shoved.

Lindemann – who owns Andy Warhol’s oceanside Eothen property close by – and Levai’s tiff began over zoning rules, Burke advised The Submit.

“[Levai] is utilizing the area commercially, in violation of city codes,” he claimed.

Burke attended his consumer’s July 19 courtroom date solo.

Lindemann, who owns the Venus Over Manhattan Gallery on Madison Avenue, couldn’t attend due to beforehand scheduled journey plans, the Sag Harbor-based lawyer advised The Submit.

Burke entered pleas on not responsible on Lindemann’s behalf and requested to maneuver the trial date.

In his dialog with The Submit, Burke alleged that his consumer did enter The Ranch however was not trespassing.

He additionally denied that Lindemann shoved Levai.

“These prices are absurd. My consumer has been to The Ranch many instances for the reason that opening three years in the past,” he told Artnet earlier this week. 

“I’m assured these prices might be dropped.”

Venus Over Manhattan didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark Friday morning.

Lindemann is the son of late natural-gas billionaire George Lyle Lindemann. 

His youthful brother, George Lindemann, Jr., served time in jail within the late Nineteen Nineties for an insurance coverage fraud scheme that concerned killing horses for revenue, the New York Times reported.

In 2020, Adam Lindemann made headlines when he sued real-estate mogul Aby Rosen to interrupt his lease at Venus Over Manhattan’s Madison Avenue tackle on the grounds that he couldn’t do enterprise there due to COVID-19, The Art Newspaper said at the time.

In March of this yr, the Yale Legislation grad raked in a surprising $31.5 million at a Christie’s public sale of three dozen objects from his personal assortment, ARTNews reported.

A number of of the works – which included coveted items by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Alexander Calder – offered for above their estimated worth, the outlet famous.

Earlier this summer season, Adam Lindemann and his spouse, fellow seller Amalia Dayan, sparked rumors they have been decamping from Montauk by quietly shuttering their mutual venture, the South Etna Montauk Basis, and itemizing Eothen as a short-term rental, Artnet reported.

The couple beforehand tried to dump the famed property for $65 million in 2020 however failed to draw a purchaser.

Max Levai is the son of artwork seller Pierre Levai. He bought The Ranch in 2020 and lately set fingers wagging out East together with his zoning utility to probably construct a big residence on one of many heaps, according to the East Hampton Star.