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¦ From 2020 YEAR on PAGE 5 Morgan Stanley. As part of the
after the coronavirus forced him divorce agreement, Alexandra
to work from home, always with Bergstein no longer lived at the
his two sons nearby. home.
An attorney for about a decade, The problem?
Marotta has more than 8,000 Twit- A look back at the odd, Seth Bergstein refused to return
ter followers and was getting rave different and sometimes the artwork to its owners, the Mo-

reviews for tweeting about the of- weird and offbeat stories chary family. The suit is pending.
ten-humorous side of life with his tackled in 2020.

young sons. 40 and Counting
At the time, Marotta said: In November, there was the
“It’s a really great way to con- story of Wethersfield attorney
nect with a lot of people—young Matthew Forrest, who hit 40
parents—who are in the same cir- working days in a row with rev-
cumstances.” Marotta said he was enue received from a settlement.
tweeting about 20 times a day, One example was Forrest said this week the streak is still going strong,
having his 3-year-old barge into his home office to at about 70 days.
tell him to decorate the cookies and then get back Most of the settlements revolved around property
to work. damages to vehicles and are not that large, with his
largest at the time at $16,500 in a diminished value
car case involving vehicle damage with a drunken
The Fight Over Jackson Pollock’s Artwork
In July there was the story of a federal lawsuit al- driving component.
leging that a well-to-do Greenwich man had refused Forrest, of Forrest McPadden, said his clients
to return a $175,000 piece of art called “The Collage” range from motorists to companies that have fleets
that Jackson Pollock painted in 1943. of vehicles to small businesses such as independent
The artwork was displayed in numerous museums contractors and tradespeople. His job is to deter-
and art galleries all over the world and, eventually, mine the property loss and then negotiate those
found its way to the home of Alexandra Bergstein, claims with the insurance companies.
a family member of the Kasser Foundation. It was ¦

loaned to Bergstein contingent on the art being in- Robert Storace covers legal trends, lawsuits and
sured and properly cared for. analysis for the Connecticut Law Tribune. Follow
Then in 2019, Bergstein began divorce proceed- him on Twitter @RobertSCTLaw or reach him at
ings against her husband, Seth, a top executive at 203-437-5950.

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