BizNews Edge: What a very public fall taught Rael Levitt, and how he's come back from it artwork
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BizNews Edge: What a very public fall taught Rael Levitt, and how he's come back from it

Oct 1, 2026 · 1:03:12

In December 2011, Rael Levitt brought the hammer down on Quoin Rock, Dave King's Stellenbosch wine estate. Within months, Auction Alliance, the business he had spent 20 years building, was gone. In studio with Alec Hogg, Levitt went back over the auction that undid him: the vendor bidder he placed in the crowd, the lie he told billionaire bidder Wendy Appelbaum, and the attempted fix after the eve…