Anne-Marie O'Connor

'''Anne-Marie O'Connor''' is an American journalist and writer who authored ''The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer''. This bestselling story is about the eight-year legal battle by Vienna emigre Maria Altmann, represented by Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg, to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings from her native Austria . This saga that also inspired a Harvey Weinstein movie, ''Woman in Gold'', in which Helen Mirren played Maria Altmann. One of the paintings, ''Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'', sold for a record $135 million in 2006 to Ronald Lauder's Neue Galerie New York, where the painting is on view. Provided by Wikipedia