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

By Dylan on December 6, 2006 8:00 AM

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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