AARON DE GROFT’S “VINDICATION TOUR”…Is It Just An Ordinary Orlando Pub Crawl?

“De Groft has a history of being involved with so-called discoveries,” said Levin. “The question that remains is how accurate has his past performance of reattributing works been?”

A recent story published in the online version of the salmon pink newspaper formerly owned by Jared Kushner (you figure it out…they don’t link to me) takes a look at Aaron DeGroft’s penchant for “discovering lost artwork”.

In an interview with the online newspaper, conducted via LinkedIn, De Groft said “he stands by the work he exhibited in Orlando.”

“I gave public lectures on most of the paintings at the OMA to be questioned and scrutinized before hundreds of people at each lecture,” he wrote.

He declined to answer follow up questions. “I am not talking to any media for a while until I am vindicated,” he wrote.

News flash, Aaron: “vindication” is not a legal construct.

There two possible findings available to a criminal court: guilty or not guilty.

And although DeGroft (or “De Grift”, as he’s known on the seedy side streets of Orlando) is done with the “media” until he’s “vindicated”, locals have reported to me that DeGroft launched his own “vino-dication” campaign: visiting local drinking establishments in a grass-roots attempt to clear his name.

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when DeGroft, looking winsome, sidled up to an Orlando adult punch consumer with his side of the story.

And, because I wasn’t there, I can only imaging the scene:

“The problem with the world is that everyone is three drinks behind. Ain’t nothing a man can do if he believes in himself.”

Ignored by his fellow drinker, DeGroft continues:

“What’s at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero…nothing. A circle with a hole in it.”