Rio de Janeiro - Brent Sikkema, 75, legendary NYC art dealer, stabbed to death in holiday home, 13 Jan '24, *murder-for-hire' plot by his ex- husband*

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The legenday art dealer had amassed a fortune of $20 million
May 12 2024

Unearthed diary reveals gruesome final moments of NYC art dealer

An unearthed diary has shed new light on the gruesome murder of legendary art dealer Brent Sikkema.

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Brent Sikkema (right) moved to Rio de Janeiro last Christmas after spending two years attempting to settle an acrimonious divorce with his estranged husband Daniel Sikkema (left)

• ''A handwritten prison diary has laid bare the harrowing last moment of legendary art dealer Brent Sikkema's life as he was brutally stabbed to death
• Sikemma was knifed to death in his Rio de Janeiro home on January 13
• The murder suspect's journal entrees reveal a shocking tale of an alleged 'murder-for-hire' plot by Sikkema's estranged husband ''

''On January 18 a 30-year-old delivery driver, Alejandro Triana Prevez, was arrested.

After initially denying any involvement in the crime the Cuban immigrant eventually admitted to police that he had killed Sikkema and alleged that Brent's ex Daniel, 53, had hired him to do it.''

Murder suspect Alejandro Triana Prevez's journal entrees reveal a shocking tale of an alleged 'murder-for-hire' plot by Sikkema's estranged husband

 

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Exclusive | Murdered art dealer disinherited male prostitute he married— but gave $1M from property empire to another ex-lover

Murdered millionaire Brent Sikkema left hubby Daniel Garcia Carrera nothing in his will, but ex-beau Carola Ramos got $1M. Now Carrera is suspected in the slaying.

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This is the Rio row house in the leafy Jardim Botanico neighborhood where Sikkema was found stabbed to death in January. He owned it and had just bought a second Rio property, in a tony beachfront section.
''Murdered Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema disinherited his estranged husband, a former male prostitute, from his multimillion-dollar estate before he died — and gave another ex-lover $1m in his will, The Post has learned.

Sikkema, 75, was brutally stabbed to death at his winter home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in January, the day before he was due to return to his lavish Chelsea apartment.

His estranged husband, Daniel Garcia Carrera, 53, is now a suspect in the murder, according to Brazilian authorities, and was arrested by the FBI in a dawn raid on his Kips Bay home last month, which was exclusively revealed by The Post.''

''In a 26-page will written two years before he was murdered, Sikkema ordered that Carerra Garcia inherit nothing and wrote, “I anticipate that I will not be married at the time of my death.''

 

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Now, U.S. authorities allege Daniel began plotting the killing as early as 2023, paying an assailant, identified by prosecutors only as "CC-1," $200,000 to commit the murder. He allegedly made the payments using a stolen identity.

Brent was stabbed 18 times in his face and chest, according to the wrongful death complaint reviewed by PEOPLE.

Did Disputes Over 'Open Marriage' and Child Custody Lead to the Murder of a Wealthy Art Dealer?

Brent Sikkema was found stabbed to death in his Brazil home in January 2024.

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According to the indictment, Daniel Sikkema, a U.S. and Cuban citizen, sent multiple payments to Trevez and his romantic partner in Cuba, from mid-2023 to January 2024. Prosecutors claim Sikkema used a stolen identity or an intermediary to make the payments while concealing his own identity

Estranged husband of NYC art dealer is indicted in murder-for-hire plot in Brazil

Prosecutors in Manhattan have charged the husband of a slain New York City art dealer in a murder-for-hire plot in Brazil.

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