Uncovering The ART World's Craziest HEISTS | Ben Lewis and Art Detective Arthur Brand

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Ben Lewis and Arthur Brand on the Louvre heist, the art theft epidemic, and why stolen Renoirs end up as drug collateral. Episode Overview In October 2025, thieves arrived at the Louvre on scooters, erected a furniture lift, and were in and out with 88 million euros in Napoleonic crown jewels in four minutes. They dropped the Empress's tiara on the way out. Within 12 hours, another French museum was hit. Ben Lewis, who exposed the Salvator Mundi fraud, returns to investigate the pattern. Joining him is Arthur Brand, who has recovered over 150 stolen works in two decades by operating inside criminal networks — and whose best informants, he reveals, are ex-wives. Together they work through…