Three and a half years for the Pumpkin Lady

A German socialite who stole more than £1m from the sale of a pumpkin sculpture and blew the lot on funding her lavish lifestyle was today jailed for three and a half years. Angela Gulbenkian, 39, pocketed the payment for a polka dotted piece called the ‘Kusama pumpkin’ by the Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama, but never handed over the item. The Hong-Kong art firm, Art Incorporated Ltd (AAI), paid Gulbenkian $1.275m (£982,308.29) for the ‘Kusama pumpkin’ but never received…