The suit says Straus had rebuffed car- Leno’s offered to buy the car for years, but it ended it up in Leno’s lap after the garage pulled some funny business in 2005. [From NY Post]
The family is claiming that John Straus was in his 80’s and owed a parking fee to the garage, which they notified him was past due and the car would be auctioned if he didn’t pay. They alledge that Straus sent them a check for $22,000, but the check was returned and he was told that he owed $36,000 and gave him another account number. The different account number was for the space occupied by two other cars Straus had with another garage owned by the same people and therefore defaulted on payment for the Deusenberg. The garage then sold both the lesser cars to themselves and the $1.2 million car to Leno for $180,000.
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