A blockbuster show of “lost” works by Jean-Michel Basquiat was meant to attract an audience that might otherwise visit the Magic Kingdom. But after an auctioneer confessed to faking them, the owners were left scrambling to prove their authenticity.
Spielberg, impressed, later hired O’Donnell himself. It all came crashing down when O’Donnell was indicted for illegally funneling $26,000 to’s 2004 presidential campaign, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, and did 60 days in a low-security facility near Santa Barbara.
When reached on the phone this month, Diaz said, “Of course I’ve never seen [Basquiat] doing stuff on shitty cardboard—I never believed it was real.” “I don’t believe they spoke to him,” Karfiol said. “I don’t believe for a minute they talked to Thad.” Another scholar mentioned in the catalog was Saggese, who upon seeing the Basquiats told O’Donnell, according to the catalog, “These are marvelous works in excellent condition that have many of the distinctive elements of Basquiat’s best paintings.
“As I stated before I am in no way authorized to authenticate unknown works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and want no involvement with this show,” she wrote. “I do not want to be further associated with any promotion of these works for financial gain or otherwise.”“You want us to put out there you got $60 grand to write this? Ok then. Shut up. You took the money. Stop being holier than thou. You did this not me or anybody else,” he wrote. “These are real and legit. You know this.
“I certainly did nothing wrong. All I did was bring an art exhibition to a regional museum and made it internationally famous. I’m the major casualty here, because they wanted a scapegoat,” De Groft said. “They wanted a sacrificial lamb.
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