Diana Brooks pleads guilty to collusion in US anti-trust case
$45m fine for Sotheby’s but five years to pay: Diana ‘Dede’ Brooks, former president and chief executive of Sotheby’s, has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan Federal Court to price-fixing with Christie’s between 1993 and 1999.
But, in making her plea, she claimed she had only been acting under orders from her former boss, ex…