‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history

Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail• ‘The day we tried to bag a Banksy’: read an extract from Whitfield’s explosive exposéOrlando Whitfield is a youngish man, shy, with a reddish beard. His hands are aggressively tattooed, as if they’d been laid, backs down, on w