Comment by James McKnight on July 1, 2012 at 6:44pm

Jade Le needs to be sent to jail and spotlightauthentics needs to be shut down.

Comment by James McKnight on July 1, 2012 at 7:02pm

This is the person behind spotlightauthentics.com, I doubt she has obtained a single autograph sold on her company's website... such a crying shame, any estimates of how much her company has made in the last 4 years?

http://www.facebook.com/jadelephoto

Comment by CJCollector on July 1, 2012 at 7:18pm

Nice detective work, James.

Comment by James McKnight on July 1, 2012 at 7:28pm

 Harry Lare is owed all the credit for finding the face behind this operation...

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 1, 2012 at 7:35pm

SpotlightAuthentics.com used to go by the name of SpotlightGuitars.com and SpotlightAutographs.com, and maybe a few others. We've known about them for years. At one time, most of the autographs they carried were from Gallery of Dreams (http://www.gofdreamsauctions.com/)--whether they bought direct from them or not. We've never seen an autograph we thought was genuine from any of those names—and Gallery of Dreams is big in charity auctions.

Gallery of Dreams used to have Christopher Morales listed as their authenticator and one of their three executives until they were fingered by Jerry Gladstone of American Royal Arts as being the source of the forged guitars and altered photos we discovered that were covered by 20/20 and Inside Edition in late 2009. 

http://live.autographmagazine.com/video/abc-news-20-20-on-ara-s-alt...

http://live.autographmagazine.com/photo/album/show?id=3524372%3AAlb...

It looks like they're probably buying from the same forger, but back then the guitars they sold were mostly S-101 and Canvas brands. The word pretty much got out that virtually all signed S-101 and Canvas brand guitars are signed with forgeries, so they may not be using them as much.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 1, 2012 at 7:53pm

Good job, Harry!

Comment by EjsWurhl on July 1, 2012 at 8:37pm

She can feed the meal worms the guitars that she has.  That's what I think of them.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 1, 2012 at 8:44pm

Harry, if that's the kind of investigative work you can do...I wish you were sober more often.

Comment by DB on July 10, 2012 at 12:37pm

I muse if Jade Le tax services provides a better result than http://spotlightguitars.com/ and several other sites referred to below?

Comment by James McKnight on July 11, 2012 at 9:36pm

Harry do you know or could you find out if this woman owns any property? im sure she makes a lot of $ off her fake autographs enough to own a mansion or two maybe three.

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