It looks like people (both at yahoo and on this thread) aren't willing to do the hard work to actually track down the important elements of this story. Right now it's just a fluff piece, so i took it upon myself:

a fresh arrest warrant for Frenchman Karpeles over claims he stole several million dollars from clients, including about $48,000 kinda probably spent on a luxury canopy bed.

An astute reader may ask themselves, "what the fuck kind of bed is that?" Well, dear reader, I've done the work for you. Check this out - it's an $8,000 canopy bed. While one can certainly fanticize imagine Mr. Karpeles reclining luxuriously upon this bedchamber davenport, donned in revealing victorian-era garments and partaking in fine grapes fed to him by hand from small japanese boys while

Anyway, that only gets us ~15% of the way there to $48k. We'll need to take our e-retail search deeper. Perhaps, as usual, japan knows about some weird shit that we (Americans) don't? The largest e-retailer in japan is rakuten (who now owns buy.com and accepts BTC) It turns out, expectedly, that this is the case: Here we see that the japanese have a lot of insane bed shit for sale - gold and platinum lined beds for $100k, weird quasi-holistic beds promoting youthful vigor for a cool $20k, and weird shit all between. But, dear reader, still no canopies:

here are a few insane beds. I leave it to you to photoshop Mr. Karepeles in.