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) ...

Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died - A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part o ...

Aaron De Groft, the former CEO of the Orlando Museum of Art whose tenure was ultimately defined by a Basquiat forgery scandal, died on January 18 at 59. According to an obituary published on Monday, ...

In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ... six years after Mr. Basquiat’s death and 12 years after Mr.

about six years after Basquiat's death, according to the federal warrant from the museum raid. Additionally, the owner of the storage locker where the art was found, TV writer Thad Mumford ...

about six years after Basquiat’s death, according to the federal warrant from the museum raid. Additionally, the owner of the storage locker where the art was found, TV writer Thad Mumford ...

De Groft was at the center of a scandal when the FBI investigated him in relation to potentially fake Jean-Michael Basquiat artworks. De Groft is said to have died from a brief illness.

The owners of art dramatically seized by the FBI from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 now face a legal battle to collect their nearly $20 million insurance claim.