{"id":45257,"date":"2025-09-26T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45257\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:51:09","slug":"steve-mcqueens-granddaughter-lawsuit-for-68-m-pollock-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45257\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen’s Granddaughter Lawsuit for $68 M. Pollock Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe granddaughter of actor Steve McQueen<\/a> is suing a South Carolina lawyer for a Jackson Pollock<\/a> painting valued at $68 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyer Brent Borchert told the Mirror<\/a> that he grew up with the Pollock painting hanging on the walls of his parents\u2019 home. Following the deaths of his late parents Rudolph and Pamela, Borchert and his sister Bettina were bequeathed the Pollock painting, along with the rest of their art collection in Malibu, California. Borchert now lives with his family in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn August, McQueen\u2019s granddaughter, Molly McQueen, filed a lawsuit with the superior court of California in Los Angeles County, claiming that the late legend was the painting\u2019s legal owner.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the suit, she alleges that \u201cactor Steve McQueen transferred a Jackson Pollock drip painting to Rudolph and Pamela Borchert, in anticipated exchange for a motorcycle and Latigo Canyon property. However, one of the Borcherts crashed the motorcycle and the property never changed title.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suit alleges that when the exchange in property didn\u2019t happen, Steve McQueen \u201cmade a demand for return of the Pollock painting within a reasonable time thereafter. However, the Borcherts failed to return the painting to Steve McQueen.\u201d Molly McQueen contends that she is \u201centitled to immediate possession of the painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Borchert admitted to Mirror that this situation \u201crang a vague bell,\u201d he also said, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I was even born when the deal took place\u2026 and it wasn\u2019t something me and my dad ever talked about. But I talked to my mum once and asked, \u2018What\u2019s the deal with the Jackson Pollock painting?\u2019 And she said, \u2018Your father made some sort of deal. I wasn\u2019t there for it.\u2019 It was a quick conversation but I recall that she may have mentioned something about a motorcycle and the house. It\u2019s all very hazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf they\u2019re willing to be reasonable, and then they can show me something that makes me believe something went on that wasn\u2019t right, I\u2019ll come to an agreement. But if they can\u2019t, then I won\u2019t,\u201d Borchert told the Mirror.<\/p>\n

\n\tNicknamed the \u201cKing of Cool,\u201d Steve McQueen was an American actor who rose to fame for his roles in such films as The Great Escape (1963), Bullitt (1968), and Papillon (1973). He died in 1980 of a heart attack, by which point he had been battling mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.<\/p>\n

\n\tPollock was a leading figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement; he remains best known for his drip paintings. His most expensive work is the 1948 painting Number 17A, which fetched $200 million in a private sale in 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for Borchert and McQueen did not respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The granddaughter of actor Steve McQueen is suing a South Carolina lawyer for a Jackson Pollock painting valued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,18778,111,139,69,39925],"class_list":{"0":"post-45257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-jackson-pollock","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-steve-mcqueen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}