Court Filing: Atlanta Art Dealer Allan Baitcher Responds to $20M Counterfeit Art Lawsuit
Records filed by Allan Baitcher in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
This page hosts court records filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in the case Beaux Arts Museum, LLC v. Allan Baitcher et al.
The document published here is the Answer of Defendants, filed Jan. 8, 2026, by Allan Baitcher and his company, Peachtree Antiques Inc., in response to a lawsuit accusing them of running a multimillion-dollar counterfeit art scheme.
In the filing, Baitcher denies all wrongdoing and rejects allegations that he defrauded Beaux Arts Museum by selling fake artworks or fabricating appraisals. He characterizes the dispute as a decades-long business relationship in which the museum and its sole benefactor, Alvin Malnik, directed and approved art purchases, including the acquisition of replicas.
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Atlanta art dealer denies $20M counterfeit art fraud lawsuit
Court filing says longtime business relationship, not a criminal scheme, drove the disputed art purchases.
Adam Schrader
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