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He’s the wiry, white-haired conglomerateur who’s part Buffett, part Sam Walton, part Roger Federer.

That is what they called Sean Quinn — canny conglomerateur to his friends, wily rogue to his enemies and, until recently, the richest man in Ireland.

But Mocha has no dreams of becoming a conglomerateur.

Even its star picture--a 1916 Modigliani nude whose rosy skin and cute pubic patch would, one might have thought, rouse the cupidity of any redblooded conglomerateur--failed to reach its $10 million estimate.

The plan worked well for the insurance and manufacturing companies, but ITT Corp.'s stock did not follow suit, because Araskog kept on scratching the conglomerateur's itch: in 1994 he paid $500 million for a 50% interest in Madison Square Garden and its major tenants, hockey's New York Rangers and basketball's New York Knicks.