Onetime Art Adviser to Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Among Others, Pleads Guilty in $6.5 Million Fraud

Onetime Art Adviser to Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Among Others, Pleads Guilty in $6.5 Million Fraud
Lisa Schiff attends Takashi Murakami Private Preview and Dinner at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles on April 11, 2013. Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Blum & Poe
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NEW YORK—A New York art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy clients pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud, admitting to cheating over a dozen clients out of $6.5 million in the sale of 55 artworks.

Lisa Schiff, 54, of Manhattan, entered the plea in federal court, agreeing that she diverted client money from 2018 to May 2023 to pay personal and business expenses.