Jeff Koons - the man whose orange sculpture of an inflatable dog sold for £37.1 million [$60 million], the largest sum a work by a living artist has ever fetched at auction. –Any time vast amounts of money change hands for items of no intrinsic value, one should suspect money-laundering is going on.
"I ask for the acceptance of everything as perfect in its own being," he offered, explaining how it was early on in his career that he called for the "removal of criticism."
Artist for the Rothschild family
Koons is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) a global nonprofit organization that combats child sexual exploitation, child pornography, and child abduction.