Socialite admits pumpkin sculpture theft

A German socialite has admitted stealing more than £1.1m from a Hong Kong art dealer over the sale of a pumpkin sculpture. Angela Gulbenkian, 39, pocketed the payment for a polka dotted piece called the ‘Kusama pumpkin’ by Yayoi Kusama but never handed over the item. Gulbenkian grew up in Munich and married the great-grand-nephew of oil tycoon Calouste Gulbenkian, who’s fortune funded a multi-billion pound foundation and Lisbon museum. The Gulbenkians are considered one of Europe’s wealthiest, most renowned…