Art dealer: 'I never mixed business with pleasure.'
Subhash Kapoor, 61
The art dealer is accusing an ex-lover of refusing to return hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of antiques out of spite.
Continuing his testimony on Tuesday, Mr Subhash Kapoor, 61, the managing director of New York-based Art of the Past, said he had been intimate with Ms Paramaspry Punusamy, 54, since 1998 but never mixed business with pleasure.
He met the Singaporean art dealer at an art show in San Francisco where she had a booth selling Chinese posters.
Although they were in a relationship until 2007, the American citizen said that he kept his business and social life apart, even maintaining two email addresses to keep corporate and personal correspondence separate.
On holidays, the couple did no business and on business trips, they did no sightseeing, he said. He also denied giving any antiques, saying that he only gave women chocolate and flowers.
Ms Paramaspry, the proprietor of Jazmin Asian Arts at Tanglin Shopping Centre, is maintaining that the relationship was never a business one. Instead, they had done favours for each other like selling each other's wares and lending money and equipment to one another without keeping proper accounts.
But when he ended the relationship, he demanded artefacts that he had given her or which belonged to her. - The Straits Times/ ANN
Published Feb 9 2010
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