Cabbage Patch Kids result of Roberts' actions. Thomas died in 2013, at the age of 62, with her most favorite dolls attending her funeral alongside her family members and friends. Then Xavier Roberts himself brought a $30 million lawsuit against Topps, the company that produced grotesque trading cards parodying his company's dolls called the Garbage Pail Kids, for copyright infringement. In 1987, in the midst of the legal proceedings, the makers of the Garbage Pail Kids announced their decision to cease parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, to which Roberts commented to the press "I could scream I'm so excited." One line of Cabbage
David Roberts (art collector) David Roberts (art collector) David Roberts is a British property developer, contemporary art collector and founder of DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation). David Ian Roberts was brought up in Greenock, Scotland, and his family worked in shipbuilding. He studied for a degree in land economy and then became a commercial property developer. He is the founder and CEO of Edinburgh House Estates. He is married to Lithuanian artist Indrė Šerpytytė. Roberts began collecting in the early 1990s, and the David Roberts Collection now consists of more than 2,000 works by over 600 artists. It comprises modern and contemporary works by