Скачать или смотреть The Louvre Heists — How Insider Betrayal Made the World’s Most Famous Theft Possible

In 1911, a Louvre employee walked out with the Mona Lisa hidden under his coat — a theft so audacious it turned a painting into a legend. More than a century later, a 2025 jewelry heist at the same museum exposed how the threat has evolved from careless guards to calculated insiders and high-tech criminals.

This episode of The Long Cut unpacks the forgotten patterns linking the old and the new — from Vincenzo Peruggia’s patriotic theft to today’s elite security breaches. It explores what experts now call the insider threat: employees who exploit access for money, ideology, or revenge — the quiet danger inside the world’s most guarded walls.

In this video:

How the Mona Lisa theft changed art security forever

Why “insider threats” are the art world’s most underestimated risk

How modern museums fight both human error and organized crime

The psychology and motive patterns behind betrayal in the art world

A story of loyalty, greed, and fame — and how one man’s inside job reshaped the value of art itself.