A screenwriter forgets to pay the bill for his storage facility in Los Angeles.

The contents are auctioned off, keepsakes from a life in television, a love of baseball,

and 25 artworks by Jean, Michelle, Basquiat.

But are they real?

If only someone would authenticate them.

They'd answer the Orlando Museum of Art.

They'd dedicate an entire show to the never before seen Basquiat's, and the FBI enters

the museum and seizes every last one of them.

They literally took them down off the walls of the gallery they were hanging in and hauled

them away.

I'm Sean Ramos for him, the case of the fake Basquiat's, ahead on today's plant.

Basquiat is one of the most famous and arguably one of the most significant artists to emerge

from the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s.

Brett Sokol is a contributing writer on art and culture for the New York Times.

He's based in Miami, Florida.

He's also really the poster child for art stardom.

I don't want to call his success overnight, but pretty close to it.

He starts really showing his work in some prominent group shows in 1980, and by 1982, his

star is really on the rise to the point where people are trying to kill each other over

getting a hold of his work.

And by the end of the 80s, he is a bona fide art star.

Basquiat, who's credited as the first to bring street art to fine art.

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