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The Orlando Museum of Art in Florida has responded to a countersuit filed by its former director amid fallout from its fake Basquiat scandal.

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The museum, which is operating at a significant deficit amid mounting crisis management fees, will focus its legal efforts on its former director

The museum, which is trying to stave off financial crisis, said the focus on former director Aaron De Groft was an effort to cut legal costs.

Orlando Museum of Art dismissed its claims against most defendants in a lawsuit it filed after an FBI raid over fake Basquiat paintings.

Since it was raided in 2022 by the FBI, which seized 25 purported Basquiat works, the museum’s legal and communications costs have surged while public and private support slowed

The Orlando Museum of Art is in financial peril following its scandalous show of forged Basquiat paintings with a budget shortfall near $1 million.

The Orlando Museum of Art's lawsuit against its former director, Aaron DeGroft, over forged Basquiat paintings is set to take years to conclude.

Embroiled in the ongoing saga of disputed Basquiat paintings, De Groft is striking back at his former employer.

A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is