The decision follows a backlash from Jewish organizations after the auction house generated $202 million in a spring sale from the jewelry collection of Heidi Horten.
Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the target of multiple criminal investigations. One includes a watch, gifted by the Saudis, sold in a Pennsylvania mall.
The museum said that it had dismissed a worker accused of stealing jewelry and gems, some thousands of years old, from a storeroom. The police are investigating.