“What happened in that incident?”
I cannot remember the exact details but a very rich man owned the Duesenberg and it was stored for 60+ years. He had dementia and the rent was not paid for some years.
The car was put up on a “secret public auction” that only Leno and the guy who was the “buyer” for Leno were made aware of.
The family did pay the back storage fees before the auction but the auction was still held
Leno got the car for $180k which was a miniscule amount of what it was really worth.
Leno settled out of court and paid the family an undisclosed amount.
I cannot remember the exact details of what happened but it was considered a shady transaction.
Sorta like if your brother was a sherriff in charge of foresclusures and he told you and you only about a up coming foreclosure of a home and you were the only bidder that showed up.
The elderly owner was a descendent of Isidore & Isa Straus (Isidore a cofounder of Macys & he wife Ida died on the Titanic).
&https://gothamist.com/news/parking-garage-owner-commits-suicide-after-he-and-jay-leno-are-sued
Thanks. I Wish he had more integrity than that. He should negotiated with the family for the car, and walked away if they said no.
I knew he is liberal, I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that he did something like that. Just hate to see them do crap like that to others.
I liked watching his show “Leno’s garage” for the cool cars he has, but now that will be all I thjnk about if I see it agai.n.