*A stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills has set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by a iving artist, an auctioneer said. Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby Spring” sold Thursday for $19.1 million, Sotheby’s, the auction house, said in a statement. The sale propelled Hirst past previous best seller Jasper Johns, whose “Figure 4” netted about $17 million last month in New York.
*San Francisco writer Laura Albert, who used the alter ego of non-existent male prostitute JT LeRoy to pen an autobiographical novel, defrauded a company that wanted to make a film about her life, a jury decided Friday. The Manhattan federal jury awarded Antidote International Films Inc. $116,500.
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Personals was compiled by Alan Leo from Tribune news services and staff reports.
