The Russian cellist Nina Kotova lost her grip at IMG Artists when its co-woner, her husband Barrett Wissman, was ousted by his Russian partner Alexander Shustorovich.
No-one grieved for Wissman, a self-confessed fraudster. But Kotova, cut off from her agency, had to seek new repoporesentation. She had landed with the off-piste Jack Price Attractions, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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