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Is Ari Emanuel getting a good deal with his purchase of Frieze?

The entertainment company’s former chief executive paid a reported $200m for the art fair and media brand—a sum which has raised eyebrows

Melanie Gerlis
11 June 2025
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Other would-be bidders are said to have been in the game for nearer the $100m mark—half of the figure reportedly paid by Emanuel

Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze and Linda Nylind