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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. An obituary for De Groft, still involved in three lawsuits arising from the Basquiat scandal, was submitted  to the Orlando Sentinel by his wife, Kathryn Lee De Groft.

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