Frank Frazetta’s Son Arrested On Charges Of Stealing Father’s Works

In one of those stories with odd details and suggestions of sordid family goings-on that hits all too rarely anywhere near comics, the son of Frank Frazetta was arrested on Thursday near the museum devoted to his father's work in the Poconos. He was charged with trying to steal 90 paintings with an approximate worth of $20 million.

The initial AP story said that the Alfonso Frank Frazetta claimed he had been instructed by his father, who was in Florida, to enter the museum by any means required to do so in order to remove the painting to take them to a storage facility. This was done by removing a door with a backhoe, one of those odd details the drives the imagination on stories like these. Frazetta was apprehended after the works had been loaded into a trailer but before he had left the property.

It's also led to a bunch of understandable and what seems like reasonably informed speculation on why the younger Frazetta would engage in such an action. According to statements through the press from the accused and his wife and from general knowledge held by those close to the family, the passing of Frank Frazetta wife and administrator of his holdings Ellie Frazetta in July and the elder Frazetta's declining health has apparently led to the family beginning to process the painter and one-time cartoonist's vast library of possessions, much of it stored in the museum bearing his name. While it's hard to believe that anyone could believe that a significant number of paintings could be sold at anywhere approaching value in today's Internet-informed marketplace, it's not hard to foresee any number of scenarios in which possession of a number of paintings could have somehow directly benefited the younger Frazetta.

Frazetta is being held on $500,000 bail. Charges are pending for the backhoe operator, 69-year-old Frank Bush. Frazetta was charged with burglary, criminal trespassing and theft.
 
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