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An Atlanta stockbroker is suing an insurance company for $1 million, claiming the company sold him a painting by American impressionist Mary Cassatt that turned out to be a fake. C. Noel Wadsworth, insisting he was defrauded when he paid $275,000 for an 1897 oil painting titled “Girl in the Balcony Seat (at the Opera),” filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court against Aetna Life & Casualty Co. and Michael F. Drinkhouse, a Florida resident involved in the sale.
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