[1] She is currently a freelance writer who has contributed articles on culture, the arts, business, philanthropy and other topics to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and several magazines.
Her article told the story of Portrait of Wally by Egon Schiele, which had been taken from its Jewish owner, Lea Bondi Jaray, in the Nazi era and later purchased by Leopold.
Soon after the story was published, the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau started proceedings to help restore the piece to descendants of its owner.
Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer specifically mentioned the uproar about "Portrait of Wally" when she announced the policy change in March 1998,[4] and again when she sent a draft law on the restitution of art confiscated by the Nazis to Parliament in September 1998.
When Bettina Rothschild Looram died in 2012, the Daily Telegraph in London cited the Bondi case as a reason "Austria’s minister of culture had directed the country’s national museums to identify any items in their collections that had been stolen or extorted by the Nazis from the Jews.