admitting that he and an accomplice had created the fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to Basquiat. The museum sued De Groft, claiming fraud, breach of contract and conspiracy.

Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died - A former head of the Orlando Museum ...

Two insurers are pushing back against a $19.7 million claim by the owners of 25 fake Basquiat paintings seized from the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in ...

admitting that he and an accomplice had created the fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to Basquiat. The museum sued De Groft, claiming fraud, breach of contract and conspiracy.

(AP Photo/John Raoux, File) FILE - This 1982 untitled painting by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is displayed ... for the Orlando Museum of Art had signed off on the exhibit, even after the FBI ...

(AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen ...

FILE - The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) ...

De Groft became executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021 following art museum administration jobs in Jacksonville, Sarasota, and Williamsburg, Virginia. De Groft negotiated to have ...