The investors backing them are Chemical Venture Partners, an affiliate of Chemical Banking Corporation, and Apollo Advisers, the managing partners of a New York-based investment fund.

The other big conflict is spelled out in the prospectus of Apollo Investment Management, part of Apollo Advisers.

Apollo Advisers, founded by Leon D. Black, formerly of Drexel Burnham Lambert, is the only firm so far to take one of these vehicles public, making a quick $17 million in management fees overnight after raising $871 million.

Her father is a principal of Apollo Advisers, an investment firm in New York.

The other partners are the Thomas H. Lee Company, the Boston-based buyout firm, and Apollo Advisers, the investment firm run by Leon Black.

The company, which is based in Woodland Hills, Calif., near Los Angeles, was sold investment concerns including Shamrock Capital Advisers, Apollo Advisers and the Loews Corporation.

The sculpture is a gift from Leon D. Black, the founder and president of Apollo Advisers, a New York investment firm, and a museum trustee.

They said that Cox Cable, the Blackstone Group and Apollo Advisers were also reviewing the financial data.

Mr. Scott is an investment adviser at Apollo Advisers in New York.

A third bid, they said, was submitted by Apollo Advisers and Oaktree Capital Management and is backed by Deutsche Bank.