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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Law - Attorney who made a fortune in a multibillion dollar Texas tobacco settlement spends big at Auburn auction
An AP story today reports:
AUBURN, Ind. -- A yellow 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo covered with dozens of celebrity autographs sold for $500,000 to a Houston collector who made some other big purchases during Kruse International's annual Labor Day weekend auction. * * *John O'Quinn, an attorney who made a fortune in a multibillion dollar Texas tobacco settlement, also spent $335,000 on a Batmobile used in the film "Batman Forever." His other purchases at the auction included spending $250,000 for a 1938 Cadillac Town Car used by Pope Pius XII and $290,000 on a 1941 Packard limousine used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
O'Quinn paid $690,000 at a Kruse auction in Las Vegas last year for a 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 5, 2006 10:52 AM
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