“It was the scandal that rocked the internet. A seemingly worthless painting sold on eBay in early 2000 for $135,805 — all because buyers believed it might be the work of the 20th-century abstract painter Richard Diebenkorn. It wasn’t. Nor was the story behind the painting true… Before long the tangle of deceits that led to the historic sale began to unravel on the front pages of newspapers around the country.” Now, one of the perpetrators of the hoax has written a book to lay out his side of the story.