Singer Adam Levine claims the 1971 Maserati that he got from a prominent classic car broker is a fake.
Levine, the frontman for pop rock band Maroon 5, has filed a lawsuit against Rick Cole, whose celebrity customer roster has included Jay Leno and Frank Sinatra. The suit said Levine gave Cole two Ferraris and $100,000 cash in exchange for what he believed was a rare Ghibli 4.9-liter Spyder.
The suit said because Maserati made only about 25 such cars, an authentic one would be worth more than $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. But Levine later discovered that it had a duplicate VIN and had been withdrawn from an auction in 2015 after questions arose about its veracity, the suit said.