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

The owners of works the FBI seized from the Orlando Museum of Art have filed an eight-figure claim, but the insurers say “coverage is unavailable because… the property was inauthentic”

Aaron De Groft, who came to central Florida to raise the profile of Orlando Museum of Art — but then embroiled the institution in an FBI fraud investigation over purported Basquiat paintings — has died.

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.

Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art and subject of scandal and FBI investigation over fraudulent Jean-Michel Basquiat artworks, has died, according to an obituary written by his family and published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

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- This 1982 untitled painting by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is displayed at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.. (AP Photo/, File)

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182.8 x 213.3 cm. (72 x 84 in.)