NEW YORK (AP).- First it was a curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he drunkenly lost while trying to help a friend sell it. Now the story has gotten stranger still: A part owner of the canvas identified its co-owner as an admitted art thief, her lawyer said. Kristyn Trudgeon sued the middleman in New York earlier this week. But attorney Max Di Fabio said she was withdrawing the lawsuit after realizing Wednesday upon seeing a prison mug shot that co-owner Thomas Doyle was the same man who pleaded guilty in 2007 to stealing an $600,000 Edgar Degas sculpture from a wealthy collector. Doyle, whose record also includes a stint in federal prison for a $200,000 jewelry swindle in Tennessee, was paroled in December, records show. Trudgeon is “exploring potential legal remedies,” Di Fabio said. He