{
  "id": 18204560,
  "title": "Daniel Sikkema Sentenced to Life for Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/daniel-sikkema-sentenced-to-life-for-murder-of-art-dealer-brent",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-04T23:36:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hyperallergic",
    "slug": "hyperallergic",
    "url": "https://hyperallergic.com/daniel-sikkema-sentenced-to-life-for-murder-of-art-dealer-brent-sikkema/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Daniel Sikkema, 56, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, art dealer Brent Sikkema, 75, who was found dead in his Rio de Janeiro residence in January 2024 with 18 stab wounds. Brent Sikkema, co-founder of the Manhattan gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Company, was stabbed to death in a cold, calculated plot driven by greed, according to US Attorney Jamie McDonald. Daniel Sikkema was found guilty of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder for hire, and conspiracy to murder a person in a foreign country after a two-week trial in May. He was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}