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Elysium Management LLC
445 Park Avenue
Suite 1401
New York, New York 10022
Heathera-ai
Phone:
Email:
To:
Cc:
Leon D. Black
Bradley J. Wechsler
Jeffrey Epstein
From:
Heather Gray
April 29, 2015
Re:
Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme (Marie Therese} (the "Work")
I received comments this afternoon from Gagosian's lawyer on the Agreement of Sale for the Picasso.
This memorandum summarizes my recommended modifications to the Agreement in response to
Gagosian's comments.
I.
Timing.
Gagosian's lawyer wants to specify how quickly Diana Howard must examine the work and prepare
condition reports and how soon thereafter you must decide whether you are going forward with the sale
and paying. I think Gagosian's suggested time frames are too short, so I would like to propose the
following schedule instead:
A.
Initial Condition Report and First Installment Payment.
•
Within 5 business days after the agreement is signed, Diana Howard must examine the
Work at TransArt International in Paris. Is this enough time for Diana to fly to Paris to
examine the Work? Have you spoken with her about these arrangements? Would you
like me to speak with her about them?
•
Within 4 business days after her examination of the Work, she must prepare a condition
report and deliver it to you and Gagosian.
•
Within 2 business days after your receipt of the condition report, you decide if the
condition of the Work is satisfactory to you and notify Gagosian of your decision.
•
You pay Gagosian $23,000,000 (20% of the purchase price) on the next business day
after you notify him if the condition is satisfactory to you. If it is not satisfactory, you
notify Gagosian that you are not proceeding with the sale and the agreement terminates.
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B.
At the End of the MoMA Exhibition.
•
Gagosian arranges for Diana to examine the Work at MoMA.
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Same schedule as above. Diana has 4 days to prepare the condition report and deliver it to
you and Gagosian. You have two business days after receipt of the condition report to
decide if the condition of the Work is satisfactory to you and notify Gagosian of your
decision.
•
You must pay NY sales tax to Gagosian on the next business day after notification.
Gagosian then arranges for MoMA to deliver the Work to you and title to and risk of loss
for the Work transfer to you.
H.
Reasonable Discretion Standard. In each of the circumstances above where Diana Howard is
preparing a condition report for the Work for you, it is in your discretion to determine whether the Work
is in satisfactory condition (at the beginning of the timeline, before you make the first installment
payment) or is in a condition substantially similar to its initial condition. To give you the most possible
leeway, I tried to make these determinations be in your "sole and absolute" discretion. Gagosian's
lawyer has, understandably, objected and wants the determinations to be in your "reasonable" discretion.
I recommend we agree to a reasonable discretion standard.
III.
Default and Cure. If we fail to make a payment on time or Diana Howard does not provide
condition reports on time, Gagosian will notify you that you are in default and you will have 10 days to
cure the default. If you do not cure within 10 days, the sale is unwound and Gagosian returns to you any
amount of the purchase price that you have previously paid, and you return the Work to him if you have
possession of it but have not made the final payment.
IV.
No Lien. Title to the Work passes to you when you take possession of it at the end of the
MoMA exhibition in February 2016, even though you will not make the final installment payment until
April 15, 2016. Gagosian's lawyer wanted to be able to put a lien on the Work in that period of time
before final payment is made. I recommend you refuse to do this. You may want the flexibility to use
the Picasso as collateral, and a Gagosian lien would preclude that.
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