CS VO ON EXTREMELY WEALTHY, ART DEALING FAMILY SECRETS REVEALED IN BITTER DIVORCE SEGMENT [3] 1998/01/21 ************************************************ KEYWORDS: DOGS; FRANCE; INCOME TAX; JUDAISM; LOOTING; LOST; MUSEUMS; PAINTING; PARIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIMETIME LIVE; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITIES; US DOLLAR; WORLD WAR I (1914-18) 22:14:52 DIANE SAWYER OK, we're going to take you tonight now into a very different world, a world where a family's wealth is measured in billions -- not in millions, in billions. This is a family which made its fortune dealing in art and owns some of the world's masterpieces. And it was an extravagant lifestyle lived largely in private until recently, until a bitter divorce battle began peeling away the veil of secrecy. As chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross reports now, it is a story of scandal, of priceless treasures and perhaps of the harsh judgment of history. (Dogs barking) BRIAN ROSS, ABC NEWS (VO) For almost 20 years, this woman has been a member of one of the world's richest families -- the Wildensteins, a family of great art, great power and great secrecy. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN You know, when I enter this family, it was the established rule. So you get used to this all secrecy around you. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) That was the established rule? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. BRIAN ROSS Total secrecy? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Total secrecy. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Her name is Jocelyne Wildenstein, a woman in crisis whose decision to break the family rule of secrecy in an ugly divorce battle has put her privileged life in jeopardy and held her up to public humiliation. It's been all over the news in New York, where she and he husband, Alec Wildenstein, have been fighting it out in divorce court, with much of the focus on Jocelyne Wildenstein's unusual exotic appearance -- the results, her husband has said, of excessive plastic surgery, which has dramatically changed her looks from the days she was a young Swiss beauty. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN I have nothing to say about it. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) And when your husband would say you were addicted to plastic surgery, you had -- you kept going? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Because he has nothing else to say against me. During the 19 years of marriage, he has nothing to tell against me. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And now, the bitter divorce and the tabloid tales of plastic surgery have put quite a focus on a family that operates in the shadows behind well - guarded walls in Paris and New York as perhaps the world's preeminent art dealers -- a family with lots of secrets, dark secrets that go back generations. Secrets we found in our PrimeTime investigation the people at the Wildenstein galleries don't like to talk about. AUCTION BIDDER I have $17 million. Now at $17 million. BRIAN ROSS (VO) A family little - known outside high society, high - priced art circles, the Wildensteins are rarely seen at big, public auctions, but they are a powerful presence behind the scenes. SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER Sold at $19 million. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Led by 80 - year - old Daniel Wildenstein, the family buys and sells masterpieces for a clientele of the rich and famous and is itself worth not millions, but billions. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN I mean, they are doing very well. They have the biggest, you know, art collection in the world. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) The biggest art? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN The biggest art collection in the world. Yeah, they do definitely. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne Wildenstein greeted us in the spectacular New York City mansion which she says has been their family's home for 19 years. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN How nice to see you. It's a pleasure. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Show me around this grand room. Tell me all about it. (VO) Wearing a designer outfit and some of her $10 million worth of jewelry, she showed us around what is known as the Bonnard room, in defiance of her husband's orders that no photographs were to be taken in this room. (on camera) And this your living room? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN This is my living room, yes. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The art in this room alone is worth a small fortune, including 10 paintings by post Impressionist artist Pierre Bonnard. (on camera) And this is tens of millions of dollars worth of art in this one room? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And that's just New York. The family's wealth from the art business provides a life of luxury and splendor with properties around the world. There's a chateau outside Paris. The Wildensteins have their own thoroughbred stables in France, a private jet, a Caribbean retreat that sleeps 22 and Mrs Wildenstein's favorite getaway, a 66,000 - acre ranch in Kenya. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN We have 56 lake. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne Wildenstein says she has spent as much as $1 million a month to keep all the households going. But, she says, in the 19 years she and her husband have lived in New York, they have never filed state or federal income tax returns. (on camera) In those years, did you ever pay US taxes? Did you ever sign an IRS tax return? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS You never did? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS A New York state tax return? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS So you've paid no tax at all? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Not on my knowledge, no. BRIAN ROSS Did anyone ever tell you that you might owe a few dollars in back taxes? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. No, definitely not. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne's husband, Alec Wildenstein, declined to speak with us. He did offer to clean off our camera lens. His lawyers have acknowledged in court that he does not pay US taxes because he is not a US citizen and does not consider himself a US resident. The case has become so ugly the Wildensteins tried to kick Jocelyne out of the house until a judge stopped them. But the Wildensteins have cut her off in some ways that only the rich can do. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN The staff is allowed to cook for the dogs, and the medical is paid for the dogs. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) The staff can cook for the dogs? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. The staff can cook for the dogs. And they can pay, they pay the medical for the dogs. BRIAN ROSS Can they cook for you? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. They cannot cook for me. BRIAN ROSS Do they pay your medical bills? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS (VO) At the same time, Alec Wildenstein reportedly has spent several hundred thousand dollars on his new 20 - year - old girlfriend, a Russian model seen with Wildenstein recently at a French racetrack. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN You know, you can be part of the family. You can shine with the family for 20 years, and one day if you're not part of this family, you are ejected out. Totally out. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The tales from the divorce come at a time when the Wildenstein empire is already under a cloud, a much more serious cloud because of other secrets now coming out -- secrets about a time when the Nazis occupied Paris, a time when other Jewish art dealers lost everything. But the Wildenstein family patriarch, George Wildenstein, somehow kept the family art gallery going. HECTOR FELICIANO, JOURNALIST The legacy of George Wildenstein creates problems. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Hector Feliciano, the author of the ground - breaking book "The Lost Museum" about the Nazi looting of art from Jewish families, discovered George Wildenstein's name in long - forgotten World War II archives. HECTOR FELICIANO According to this report, there is no doubt that George Wildenstein did collaborate with the Germans. And ... BRIAN ROSS (on camera) He was Jewish. HECTOR FELICIANO Yeah. But this -- this didn't matter. Because he managed, through his contacts, to collaborate, and he managed to save his gallery. And his gallery dealt also in looted art. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The report, prepared for American intelligence and based on an interrogation of Hitler's art dealer, Karl Haberstock, recounts how George Wildenstein made a deal with the Nazis to keep his art gallery open, by turning it over to a non - Jewish associate who would make it his business to discover important collections for the Nazis, which experts say almost certainly included Jewish collections. HECTOR FELICIANO The problem is that he did go beyond saving his gallery. He not only saved his gallery, but he kept working on with the Nazis. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Why do you think George Wildenstein would do that? HECTOR FELICIANO He just wanted to buy and sell. To him, they were just new clients. BRIAN ROSS The Nazis were just new clients? HECTOR FELICIANO Yes, I think this is it. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Until the report came out, Wildenstein had been thought to be a victim of the Nazis, forced to flee to New York, where he had publicly criticized those who collaborated with the Nazis at the very time the Paris gallery was brokering art for Germans. EDGAR BRONFMAN, WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS I feel very deeply about the fact that people should not profit from the ashes of the Holocaust. BRIAN ROSS (VO) As head of the World Jewish Congress, Edgar Bronfman led the effort to identify gold stolen by the Nazis, and now he wants to do the same thing with art stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families. EDGAR BRONFMAN What the Nazis did, they didn't just take their gold and their paintings and their property, they also took their identities. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Bronfman was outraged when we showed him the World War II files on George Wildenstein. EDGAR BRONFMAN Shame on him. That's all. Shame on him. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Shame on him? EDGAR BRONFMAN Yes, absolutely. BRIAN ROSS Why? EDGAR BRONFMAN Because he was helping the enemy. He was helping people who had stolen art from his people to conceal it or get rid of it or do whatever. He was an accessory before and after the fact. I mean, it's shameful. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But the questions for the Wildensteins today don't stop with George, dead since 1963. There are new questions about art stolen by the Nazis and discovered only last year in the Wildenstein gallery in New York City -- a rare set of handwritten Medieval manuscripts worth millions. PROF JAMES MARROW, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY I was told by the Wildensteins I was the first person scholar -- allowed to see these manuscripts. BRIAN ROSS (VO) It was James Marrow, a professor at Princeton, who made the startling discovery after he was called in to appraise the manuscripts for a possible sale. JAMES MARROW The Nazi documentation I have seen says that these manuscripts were stolen from the home of Alfonse Kann. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Alfonse Kann was a prominent Jewish art collector whose priceless collection was seized from his French estate in 1940 by the Nazis, each item recorded with a KA for Kann in a detailed Nazi inventory, including the manuscripts now in the Wildensteins' possession -- KA - 879 through KA - 886. FRANCIS WARRIN, KANN'S NEPHEW I knew that they were in the Wildenstein family, but I didn't have any proof. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But now, even with the proof, Francis Warrin, the nephew of Alfonse Kann, says the Wildensteins are still refusing to turn over the manuscripts, which Warrin says the Wildensteins wrongly claimed after the war once his uncle was dead. FRANCIS WARRIN I'm not there to judge the behavior of the people. That would be to the court to do. What I say is this belongs to us, and we want to get it back. BRIAN ROSS (VO) It's one more blight on the name of Wildenstein, something Daniel Wildenstein refused to talk to us about until we showed up one morning outside his apartment in Paris. (on camera) We have tried to get a hold of you to ask you some questions about art stolen by the Nazis. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN What do you want to know? BRIAN ROSS Well, is there any such art in the possession of the Wildenstein family now? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS What about those manuscripts? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN That's a stupidity. Those manuscripts are owned by us. BRIAN ROSS You own them? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN They are owned by us since 1903. BRIAN ROSS But the Nazis recorded them as being taken from the Kann family. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN Absolutely not. BRIAN ROSS It is on the inventories. Have you seen those? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN It's not -- there is no inventory. It's a stupidity, and it means absolutely nothing. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And Wildenstein was just as quick to dismiss any suggestion his father had helped protect and expand the family fortune by collaborating with the Nazis during the war DANIEL WILDENSTEIN Which is not true. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) It is not true? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But now, after years of denials and secrets, 1998 could be the year of reckoning for the Wildensteins. There is the divorce case between Jocelyne and Alec being played out in the papers and in court, serious charges about works of art turning up in the vaults of the Wildensteins' New York City gallery and growing questions for the Wildensteins of today about what happened more than 50 years ago when the gallery did business with the Nazis. EDGAR BRONFMAN I think they have to search their souls and fess up. If that whole family fortune is based on this, that's wrong. DIANE SAWYER And beyond this story, the World Jewish Congress estimates that some 55,000 works of art, stolen by the Nazis in France alone, were never returned to their owners after the war and may be hanging in galleries around the world, including in the United States. ANNOUNCER These parents had to go to court for the right to raise their teenage son as they see fit. SUE VAN BLARIGAN We wanted to help David for his entire life. ANNOUNCER But does tough love have its limits? An exclusive interview, when PrimeTime continues. (Commercial Break) ANNOUNCER PrimeTime Live, an ABC News magazine, will continue after this from our ABC stations. (Station Break)

CS VO ON EXTREMELY WEALTHY, ART DEALING FAMILY SECRETS REVEALED IN BITTER DIVORCE SEGMENT [3] 1998/01/21 ************************************************ KEYWORDS: DOGS; FRANCE; INCOME TAX; JUDAISM; LOOTING; LOST; MUSEUMS; PAINTING; PARIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIMETIME LIVE; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITIES; US DOLLAR; WORLD WAR I (1914-18) 22:14:52 DIANE SAWYER OK, we're going to take you tonight now into a very different world, a world where a family's wealth is measured in billions -- not in millions, in billions. This is a family which made its fortune dealing in art and owns some of the world's masterpieces. And it was an extravagant lifestyle lived largely in private until recently, until a bitter divorce battle began peeling away the veil of secrecy. As chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross reports now, it is a story of scandal, of priceless treasures and perhaps of the harsh judgment of history. (Dogs barking) BRIAN ROSS, ABC NEWS (VO) For almost 20 years, this woman has been a member of one of the world's richest families -- the Wildensteins, a family of great art, great power and great secrecy. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN You know, when I enter this family, it was the established rule. So you get used to this all secrecy around you. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) That was the established rule? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. BRIAN ROSS Total secrecy? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Total secrecy. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Her name is Jocelyne Wildenstein, a woman in crisis whose decision to break the family rule of secrecy in an ugly divorce battle has put her privileged life in jeopardy and held her up to public humiliation. It's been all over the news in New York, where she and he husband, Alec Wildenstein, have been fighting it out in divorce court, with much of the focus on Jocelyne Wildenstein's unusual exotic appearance -- the results, her husband has said, of excessive plastic surgery, which has dramatically changed her looks from the days she was a young Swiss beauty. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN I have nothing to say about it. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) And when your husband would say you were addicted to plastic surgery, you had -- you kept going? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Because he has nothing else to say against me. During the 19 years of marriage, he has nothing to tell against me. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And now, the bitter divorce and the tabloid tales of plastic surgery have put quite a focus on a family that operates in the shadows behind well - guarded walls in Paris and New York as perhaps the world's preeminent art dealers -- a family with lots of secrets, dark secrets that go back generations. Secrets we found in our PrimeTime investigation the people at the Wildenstein galleries don't like to talk about. AUCTION BIDDER I have $17 million. Now at $17 million. BRIAN ROSS (VO) A family little - known outside high society, high - priced art circles, the Wildensteins are rarely seen at big, public auctions, but they are a powerful presence behind the scenes. SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER Sold at $19 million. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Led by 80 - year - old Daniel Wildenstein, the family buys and sells masterpieces for a clientele of the rich and famous and is itself worth not millions, but billions. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN I mean, they are doing very well. They have the biggest, you know, art collection in the world. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) The biggest art? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN The biggest art collection in the world. Yeah, they do definitely. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne Wildenstein greeted us in the spectacular New York City mansion which she says has been their family's home for 19 years. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN How nice to see you. It's a pleasure. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Show me around this grand room. Tell me all about it. (VO) Wearing a designer outfit and some of her $10 million worth of jewelry, she showed us around what is known as the Bonnard room, in defiance of her husband's orders that no photographs were to be taken in this room. (on camera) And this your living room? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN This is my living room, yes. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The art in this room alone is worth a small fortune, including 10 paintings by post Impressionist artist Pierre Bonnard. (on camera) And this is tens of millions of dollars worth of art in this one room? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And that's just New York. The family's wealth from the art business provides a life of luxury and splendor with properties around the world. There's a chateau outside Paris. The Wildensteins have their own thoroughbred stables in France, a private jet, a Caribbean retreat that sleeps 22 and Mrs Wildenstein's favorite getaway, a 66,000 - acre ranch in Kenya. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN We have 56 lake. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne Wildenstein says she has spent as much as $1 million a month to keep all the households going. But, she says, in the 19 years she and her husband have lived in New York, they have never filed state or federal income tax returns. (on camera) In those years, did you ever pay US taxes? Did you ever sign an IRS tax return? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS You never did? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS A New York state tax return? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS So you've paid no tax at all? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Not on my knowledge, no. BRIAN ROSS Did anyone ever tell you that you might owe a few dollars in back taxes? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. No, definitely not. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Jocelyne's husband, Alec Wildenstein, declined to speak with us. He did offer to clean off our camera lens. His lawyers have acknowledged in court that he does not pay US taxes because he is not a US citizen and does not consider himself a US resident. The case has become so ugly the Wildensteins tried to kick Jocelyne out of the house until a judge stopped them. But the Wildensteins have cut her off in some ways that only the rich can do. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN The staff is allowed to cook for the dogs, and the medical is paid for the dogs. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) The staff can cook for the dogs? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN Yes. The staff can cook for the dogs. And they can pay, they pay the medical for the dogs. BRIAN ROSS Can they cook for you? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. They cannot cook for me. BRIAN ROSS Do they pay your medical bills? JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS (VO) At the same time, Alec Wildenstein reportedly has spent several hundred thousand dollars on his new 20 - year - old girlfriend, a Russian model seen with Wildenstein recently at a French racetrack. JOCELYNE WILDENSTEIN You know, you can be part of the family. You can shine with the family for 20 years, and one day if you're not part of this family, you are ejected out. Totally out. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The tales from the divorce come at a time when the Wildenstein empire is already under a cloud, a much more serious cloud because of other secrets now coming out -- secrets about a time when the Nazis occupied Paris, a time when other Jewish art dealers lost everything. But the Wildenstein family patriarch, George Wildenstein, somehow kept the family art gallery going. HECTOR FELICIANO, JOURNALIST The legacy of George Wildenstein creates problems. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Hector Feliciano, the author of the ground - breaking book "The Lost Museum" about the Nazi looting of art from Jewish families, discovered George Wildenstein's name in long - forgotten World War II archives. HECTOR FELICIANO According to this report, there is no doubt that George Wildenstein did collaborate with the Germans. And ... BRIAN ROSS (on camera) He was Jewish. HECTOR FELICIANO Yeah. But this -- this didn't matter. Because he managed, through his contacts, to collaborate, and he managed to save his gallery. And his gallery dealt also in looted art. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The report, prepared for American intelligence and based on an interrogation of Hitler's art dealer, Karl Haberstock, recounts how George Wildenstein made a deal with the Nazis to keep his art gallery open, by turning it over to a non - Jewish associate who would make it his business to discover important collections for the Nazis, which experts say almost certainly included Jewish collections. HECTOR FELICIANO The problem is that he did go beyond saving his gallery. He not only saved his gallery, but he kept working on with the Nazis. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Why do you think George Wildenstein would do that? HECTOR FELICIANO He just wanted to buy and sell. To him, they were just new clients. BRIAN ROSS The Nazis were just new clients? HECTOR FELICIANO Yes, I think this is it. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Until the report came out, Wildenstein had been thought to be a victim of the Nazis, forced to flee to New York, where he had publicly criticized those who collaborated with the Nazis at the very time the Paris gallery was brokering art for Germans. EDGAR BRONFMAN, WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS I feel very deeply about the fact that people should not profit from the ashes of the Holocaust. BRIAN ROSS (VO) As head of the World Jewish Congress, Edgar Bronfman led the effort to identify gold stolen by the Nazis, and now he wants to do the same thing with art stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families. EDGAR BRONFMAN What the Nazis did, they didn't just take their gold and their paintings and their property, they also took their identities. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Bronfman was outraged when we showed him the World War II files on George Wildenstein. EDGAR BRONFMAN Shame on him. That's all. Shame on him. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) Shame on him? EDGAR BRONFMAN Yes, absolutely. BRIAN ROSS Why? EDGAR BRONFMAN Because he was helping the enemy. He was helping people who had stolen art from his people to conceal it or get rid of it or do whatever. He was an accessory before and after the fact. I mean, it's shameful. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But the questions for the Wildensteins today don't stop with George, dead since 1963. There are new questions about art stolen by the Nazis and discovered only last year in the Wildenstein gallery in New York City -- a rare set of handwritten Medieval manuscripts worth millions. PROF JAMES MARROW, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY I was told by the Wildensteins I was the first person scholar -- allowed to see these manuscripts. BRIAN ROSS (VO) It was James Marrow, a professor at Princeton, who made the startling discovery after he was called in to appraise the manuscripts for a possible sale. JAMES MARROW The Nazi documentation I have seen says that these manuscripts were stolen from the home of Alfonse Kann. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Alfonse Kann was a prominent Jewish art collector whose priceless collection was seized from his French estate in 1940 by the Nazis, each item recorded with a KA for Kann in a detailed Nazi inventory, including the manuscripts now in the Wildensteins' possession -- KA - 879 through KA - 886. FRANCIS WARRIN, KANN'S NEPHEW I knew that they were in the Wildenstein family, but I didn't have any proof. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But now, even with the proof, Francis Warrin, the nephew of Alfonse Kann, says the Wildensteins are still refusing to turn over the manuscripts, which Warrin says the Wildensteins wrongly claimed after the war once his uncle was dead. FRANCIS WARRIN I'm not there to judge the behavior of the people. That would be to the court to do. What I say is this belongs to us, and we want to get it back. BRIAN ROSS (VO) It's one more blight on the name of Wildenstein, something Daniel Wildenstein refused to talk to us about until we showed up one morning outside his apartment in Paris. (on camera) We have tried to get a hold of you to ask you some questions about art stolen by the Nazis. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN What do you want to know? BRIAN ROSS Well, is there any such art in the possession of the Wildenstein family now? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS What about those manuscripts? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN That's a stupidity. Those manuscripts are owned by us. BRIAN ROSS You own them? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN They are owned by us since 1903. BRIAN ROSS But the Nazis recorded them as being taken from the Kann family. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN Absolutely not. BRIAN ROSS It is on the inventories. Have you seen those? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN It's not -- there is no inventory. It's a stupidity, and it means absolutely nothing. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And Wildenstein was just as quick to dismiss any suggestion his father had helped protect and expand the family fortune by collaborating with the Nazis during the war DANIEL WILDENSTEIN Which is not true. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) It is not true? DANIEL WILDENSTEIN No. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But now, after years of denials and secrets, 1998 could be the year of reckoning for the Wildensteins. There is the divorce case between Jocelyne and Alec being played out in the papers and in court, serious charges about works of art turning up in the vaults of the Wildensteins' New York City gallery and growing questions for the Wildensteins of today about what happened more than 50 years ago when the gallery did business with the Nazis. EDGAR BRONFMAN I think they have to search their souls and fess up. If that whole family fortune is based on this, that's wrong. DIANE SAWYER And beyond this story, the World Jewish Congress estimates that some 55,000 works of art, stolen by the Nazis in France alone, were never returned to their owners after the war and may be hanging in galleries around the world, including in the United States. ANNOUNCER These parents had to go to court for the right to raise their teenage son as they see fit. SUE VAN BLARIGAN We wanted to help David for his entire life. ANNOUNCER But does tough love have its limits? An exclusive interview, when PrimeTime continues. (Commercial Break) ANNOUNCER PrimeTime Live, an ABC News magazine, will continue after this from our ABC stations. (Station Break)

BRIAN ROSS CS VO ABOUT THE STOLEN ART ABDUCTED BY THE NAZIS THAT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE GALLERY'S OF THE WILDENSTEIN'S, ONE OF AMERICA'S RICHEST FAMILIES AND ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST PREEMINENT ART DEALERS. THE DIVORCE OF JOCELYN WILDENSTEIN FROM HUSBAND ALEC WILDENSTEIN PROMPTED THE FIRST MAJOR BREAK IN THE SECRECY OF THE FAMILY. THE VIOLATION OF THIS SECRECY HAS CAUSED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY DEALING OF GEORGE WILDENSTEIN WITH THE NAZI'S IN STOLEN ART. MIXED. 01:00:00 MS OF DANIEL WILDENSTEIN, 80 YEAR OLD WHO BUYS AND SELLS FOR THE RICH AND FAMOUS, WALKING OUT OF PARIS, MANSION AT DUSK. 01:00:11 MS OF BRIAN ROSS GREETING DANIEL WILDENSTEIN. HE SAYS "WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET A HOLD OF YOU TO ASK YOU ABOUT ART STOLEN BY THE NAZIS." 01:00:21 MCU OF WILDENSTEIN WITH A BEWILDERED EXPRESSION. HIS EYES ARE BLINKING WITH ANNOYANCE. WILDENSTEIN SAYS THE MANUSCRIPTS ARE OWNED BY HIS FAMILY SINCE 1903. 01:01:55 CU ON WILDENSTEIN'S FACE. 01:02:03 MS OF WILDENSTEIN SITTING IN CAR AND DOOR BEING CLOSED BY DRIVER. 01:02:13 WS OF WILDENSTEIN'S CAR DRIVING OFF. FADE TO BLACK. 01:02:24 WS OF WILDENSTEIN GALLERY. 01:02:27 CONFRONTATION WITH GALLERY OFFICIAL ON EXTERIOR OF BUILDING. 01:02:59 HAS OF GALLERY FROM OPPOSITE BUILDING. 01:03:20 BEAUTY OF NIGHT SKY, PAN DOWN TO BUSY STREET. 01:03:38 PULL OUT TO EXTREME LS OF NIGHT BEAUTY SHOT OF PARIS STREET. 01:03:49 LATE AFTERNOON WS OF GALLERY. ZOOM INTO WINDOW ILLUMINATED BY YELLOW CURTAIN INSIDE. 01:04:22 VS OF CARS DRIVING ON PARIS STREET. 01:04:46 HAS OF GALLERY OFFICIAL LEAVING THE BUILDING CARRYING A COVERED PAINTING. HE LAYS THE PAINTING IN THE BACK SEAT OF A WAITING NAVY BLUE MERCEDES BENZ. 01:05:38 MS OF GALLERY GATE CLOSING. 01:05:50 MS OF UNIDENTIFIABLE MAN ENTERING THE GATE WITH A PAINTING. 01:06:02 MS OF SIGN WHICH READS RENSEIGNEMENTS. GATE CLOSES. 01:06:13 MCU ON DOOR SIGN THAT READS 57. GATE OPENS AND CLOSES AT BOTTOM OF FRAME. 01:06:28 CU ON LIGHT ABOVE DOOR BUZZER AT GALLERY GATE. 01:06:48 MS AT AN ANGLE OF GRILL OF MERCEDES BENZ GALLERY GATE IN BG. 01:07:04 HAS OF DANIEL WILDENSTEIN LEAVING THE GALLERY AT NIGHT. THE SHOT HAS RED TINT. 01:07:54 CU ON RUE LA BOETIE SIGN. 01:08:05 EXTREME CU ON SIGN. 01:08:13 WS OF BOARDED UP UNIDENTIFIABLE BUILDING. 01:08:50 WS OF STREET. CAMERA FOLLOWS MAN WALKING THROUGH BUSY PARIS STREETS. 01:09:47 MS OF ROSS WALKING WITH AUTHOR HECTOR FELICIANO. 01:10:09 MS OF JOCELYN WILDENSTEIN SIPPING TEA IN A VERY PLUSH LIVING ROOM. 01:10:19 MS OF PAINTING. 01:10:33 LS OF JOCELYN WALKING DOWN THE HALL FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL PEDIGREE DOGS. 01:10:48 MS OF JOCELYN ENTERING LIVING ROOM. BRIAN ROSS WAITS. 01:11:05 JOCELYN GIVES A TOUR OF THE BONNARD LIVING ROOM. 01:11:48 VS OF PAINTINGS. 01:12:43 MS OF OLD GUNS IN A DISPLAY CASE. 01:12:55 MCU ON SCULPTURE. 01:13:04 MS OF ROSS AND JOCELYN WALKING DOWN THE HALL. 01:14:23 WS OF BEDROOM DECORATED WITH ANIMAL PRINTS. 01:14:40 MS OF JOCELYN SITTING IN BONNARD ROOM DRINKING TEA AND PETTING DOG. 01:15:06 WS OF EXTERIOR OF NEW YORK TOWNHOUSE. NIGHTTIME FOOTAGE. 01:15:36 MS OF TOWNHOUSE DOOR. 01:15:43 ZOOM INTO DOOR SIGN WHICH READS 11. 01:15:58 MS THEN ZOOM INTO WILDENSTEIN & CO SIGN ON BUILDING. PULL OUT TO BUILDING EXTERIOR. NIGHTTIME FOOTAGE. 01:16:46 WS OF JOCELYN AND ATTORNEYS ENTERING EXTERIOR OF COURT FOLLOWED BY REPORTERS. 01:17:26 WS OF JOCELYN LEAVING WITH ATTORNEY. VS OF JOCELYN ENTERING AND EXITING COURT. 01:19:22 WS OF ALEC WILDENSTEIN ENTERING THE COURT BUILDING. 01:19:35 MS OF ALEC WILDENSTEIN, ATTORNEY AND ENTOURAGE. 01:20:23 MS OF WILDENSTEIN AND ATTORNEY LEAVING COURT AND ENTERING NAVY COLORED MERCEDES BENZ. 01:21:42 MS OF CAR DRIVING AWAY. 01:22:30 MS OF JOCELYN AND ENTOURAGE DRIVING AWAY. NO SOUND. 01:23:26 SOUND RETURNS. CU ON ALEC WILDENSTEIN BEING DRIVEN AWAY IN CAR. 01:23:54 VS OF MANUSCRIPT SLIDES AND MAN REVIEWING SLIDES. 01:24:38 NATIONAL ARCHIVE FILE FOOTAGE. FOOTAGE INCLUDES, SOLDIERS CARRYING AWAY ART AND SCULPTURES. VS OF ART INSIDE HERMAN GOERING'S ART COLLECTION. HILTER LOOKING AT PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES. MUSIC. STOLEN GOLD, JEWELRY, AND UTENSILS. VS OF PAINTING. HITLER AND NAZI DEMONSTRATIONS. 01:35:11 MS OF PARISHIONERS ARRIVING AT CHRISTIES. 01:35:33 WS OF EXTERIOR OF CHRISTIES. CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE. 01:35:44 MS OF DOORMAN GREETING ARRIVING TICKET HOLDERS. 01:36:07 MS OF CHRISTIES SIGN. 01:36:18 MS OF WELL DRESSED WOMAN ENTERING WAITING CAR. 01:36:41 MS OF WOMAN WAITING OUTSIDE CHRISTIES WITH 354 CAR SIGN. 01:36:55 MS OF MIDDLE AGED COUPLE ARRIVING AT CHRISTIES. 01:37:51 WS CHRISTIES. 01:39:06 VARIOUS SOUND BITES OF INTV W/ JOCELYN, FELICIANO AND EDGAR BRONFMAN, HEAD OF WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS. THE SOUND BITES ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT. 01:39:07 INTV W/ JOCELYN WILDENSTEIN. MIXED. 01:40:28 INTV W/ HECTOR FELICIANO, AUTHOR OF THE LOST MUSEUM. FELICIANO WROTE ABOUT THE NAZI LOOTING ART FROM JEWISH FAMILIES. 01:50:46 INTV W/ EDGAR BRONFMAN. 01:51:42 END OF FOOTAGE.