STREET artist Banksy is sitting on a staggering £20million fortune – as claims emerge he’s finally been unmasked.
The elusive graffiti genius has piled up a jaw-dropping £19.1million fortune, with another £1million tucked away in property investments.
Company accounts reveal the artist, long shrouded in secrecy, even paid £174,000 in Corporation Tax in 2024.
The firm, NTS Services Limited, was incorporated in March 2020 to provide “management services”.
During its first few months of operation it “maintained client relationships” that led to “high profitability”.
The business was set under what has been reported as his current legal name, David Jones.
The company’s original name was not NTS Services but, Nothing To See Limited.
A nod to the phrase “nothing to see here”, famously used in his 2015 Dismaland project.
The business is reportedly registered under the name David Jones – now believed to be the artist’s latest alias.
That name has been linked to another firm connected to Banksy’s long-time associate, accountant Simon Durban, fuelling claims the mystery man has been hiding in plain sight.
Investigators believe “David Jones” is actually Robin Gunningham.
He is a Bristol-born man who has been rumoured for years to be the person behind the spray cans.
A probe by Reuters claims Gunningham changed his name to the ultra-common “David Jones” to dodge detection after previously being outed.
It comes after The Sun revealed earlier this week that police records from a boozy night out in New York listed the artist as Robin Gunningham.
Reuters also claims passport details match between Gunningham and Jones and that he even travelled under the new name to Ukraine, where Banksy created a series of wartime murals.
He reportedly left the country on the same day as Massive Attack star Robert Del Naja, who has also been tipped in the past as the man behind the art.
Banksy first burst onto the scene in Bristol in the late 1990s, becoming the world’s most famous graffiti artist while fiercely guarding his identity.
It’s long been claimed that Gunningham, a former pupil at Bristol Cathedral School, first adopted the name “Robin Banks” before evolving it into the now-iconic Banksy.
But despite decades of speculation, and now a multi-million-pound empire laid bare, the artist’s true identity still remains one of the art world’s biggest open secrets.
