Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues Orlando Museum of Art
The countersuit comes months after the institution sued him and others over the scandal.
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The countersuit comes months after the institution sued him and others over the scandal.
A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings filed counterclaims Tuesday against the museum, claiming wrongful termination and defamation. Former CEO Aaron De Groft said in court papers in Orlando, Florida, that the board chairwoman and outside lawyers for the Orlando Museum of Art had signed off on the exhibit, even after the FBI had subpoenaed the museum's records over the exhibit in July 2021. De Groft said he was being made a scapegoat and that the museum’s l...
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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 filing counterclaims against the museum.
The former executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art ousted over a show of forged Jean Michel Basquiat paintings has filed countersuit.