(CBS) Teri Horton is a 74-year-old retired truck driver with an eighth grade education. She likes to gamble a bit, and now she thinks she has hit the jackpot. Not in a casino, but in the high-stakes world of modern art.
Teri isnt the kind of person who knowsor caresmuch about art. But as CNN's
Anderson Cooper reports, she has caused a stir in the upper reaches of the art world because of a painting she bought years ago, a painting she now believes is the work of the famous abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.
If Teri's painting is by Pollock, it would likely be worth tens of millions of dollars. Not bad, considering she bought it as a gift for a friend and only paid $5 for it in a thrift shop in San Bernardino, Calif.
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"They laugh at me and say 'You dont know what youre talking about.' And I say, well, one of these days, I just want to say 'Neener-neener-neener, I told you so.'"
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