Courthouse News Service reports that Basquiat has become the issue in a Croatian pop star’s divorce.
G&G Productions sued Croatian actress and singer Rita Rusic on April 16, seeking the return of neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Wine of Babylon,” which Vittorio Cecchi Gori purchased from a gallery in 1988 for $330,000.
Gori assigned the painting to G&G, but apparently kept the work in Rome at the home he shared with Rusic.
The painting went missing when Gori and Rusic broke up, and G&G says Rusic “stole the ‘Wine of Babylon'” – although she has denied keeping it or even knowing where it is, the complaint states.
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