Robert Volpe, Art-Theft Expert, Dov Charney Lookalike, Dies at 63

The Times continues its weird penchant for publishing obituaries of guys who look like American Apparel founder Dov Charney. Above, left, Robert Volpe, a painter “who used his street smarts as the New York City Police Department’s one-man art-theft squad in the 1970s.” Above, right, the hipster-thread Godfather who secretly wishes he was a one-man art-theft squad in the 1970s.

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