The granddaughter of actor Steve McQueen is suing a South Carolina lawyer for a Jackson Pollock portray valued at $68 million.
Lawyer Brent Borchert informed the Mirror that he grew up with the Pollock portray hanging on the partitions of his dad and mom’ house. Following the deaths of his late dad and mom Rudolph and Pamela, Borchert and his sister Bettina have been bequeathed the Pollock portray, together with the remainder of their artwork assortment in Malibu, California. Borchert now lives along with his household in South Carolina.
In August, McQueen’s granddaughter, Molly McQueen, filed a lawsuit with the superior court docket of California in Los Angeles County, claiming that the late legend was the portray’s authorized proprietor.
Within the swimsuit, she alleges that “actor Steve McQueen transferred a Jackson Pollock drip portray to Rudolph and Pamela Borchert, in anticipated change for a motorbike and Latigo Canyon property. Nevertheless, one of many Borcherts crashed the motorbike and the property by no means modified title.”
The swimsuit alleges that when the change in property didn’t occur, Steve McQueen “made a requirement for return of the Pollock portray inside an affordable time thereafter. Nevertheless, the Borcherts didn’t return the portray to Steve McQueen.” Molly McQueen contends that she is “entitled to quick possession of the portray.”
Although Borchert admitted to Mirror that this case “rang a obscure bell,” he additionally stated, “I don’t know if I used to be even born when the deal occurred… and it wasn’t one thing me and my dad ever talked about. However I talked to my mum as soon as and requested, ‘What’s the take care of the Jackson Pollock portray?’ And she or he stated, ‘Your father made some type of deal. I wasn’t there for it.’ It was a fast dialog however I recall that she might have talked about one thing a couple of motorbike and the home. It’s all very hazy.”
“In the event that they’re keen to be affordable, after which they will present me one thing that makes me consider one thing went on that wasn’t proper, I’ll come to an settlement. But when they will’t, then I received’t,” Borchert informed the Mirror.
Nicknamed the “King of Cool,” Steve McQueen was an American actor who rose to fame for his roles in such movies as The Nice Escape (1963), Bullitt (1968), and Papillon (1973). He died in 1980 of a coronary heart assault, by which level he had been battling mesothelioma, a most cancers brought on by publicity to asbestos.
Pollock was a number one determine within the Summary Expressionist motion; he stays greatest identified for his drip work. His costliest work is the 1948 portray Quantity 17A, which fetched $200 million in a non-public sale in 2016.
Legal professionals for Borchert and McQueen didn’t reply to request for remark.
