The Mercedes-AMG ONE, which is at the heart of this debacle ... Originally priced at $2.7 million, the hypercar’s value has skyrocketed, with second-hand models now fetching several million ...

Michael Mente, a Los Angeles billionaire, handed over $5.4 million to a French car dealer for a Mercedes-AMG One in 2021. A federal lawsuit filed in February alleges Mente bought a build slot from ...

Los Angeles resident Michael Mente was interested in buying a Mercedes-AMG One hypercar ... dealership in France could get him one for $5.4 million. Unfortunately for Mente, the car he was ...

The dealer offered him a build slot for the Mercedes-AMG One for $5.4 million, which was double the MSRP asked for its first-ever hypercar built by Mercedes. The company sold the model for a ...

Details about the car were tucked into a larger story from the British publication about the 21 new Mercedes vehicles ... vehicles in recent memory. The $2.7 million speed machine is powered ...

The alleged scam started a year before, in 2021, when the L.A. man, identified as Michael Mente, worked with a Colorado lawyer named Scott Oliver and a French seller named Jean-Pierre M.R. Clement.

The Los Angeles resident and founder and CEO of Revolve, a popular online fashion retailer, had a specific one in mind: a limited edition Mercedes-AMG ONE ... $5.4 million. So in 2021, Mente ...