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Jay Leno, car thief? The gearhead “Tonight Show” host is being sued for his $180,000 auction purchase of a classic car that once belonged to a Macy’s heir. The daughter of late hot-wheels enthusiast John Straus says the owners of the E. 76th St. garage that housed the 1931 Model J Duesenberg for more than 50 years schemed to get Leno the car through a phony auction. “It was a sham,” said Nathan Goldberg, a lawyer for Straus’ daughter, Wendy Lubin. “It was designed by the garage company to provide Jay Leno with an unlawful private sale.” The car had been in the Straus family since 1931, when Straus’ dad, Herbert, had it delivered to the family’s home in Red Bank, N.J. John Straus bought the Duesenberg from his mother, and in the early 1950s put it and a 1930 Rolls-Royce in the Windsor Garage on the upper East Side. “This car meant a lot to this family,” Goldberg said. “It was a precious family heirloom.” The suit, filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, accuses the Windsor Garage ow
The gearhead “Tonight Show” host is being sued for his $180,000 auction purchase of a classic car that once belonged to a Macy’s heir. The daughter of late hot-wheels enthusiast John Straus says the owners of the E. 76th St. garage that housed the 1931 Model J Duesenberg for more than 50 years schemed to get Leno the car through a phony auction. “It was a sham,” said Nathan Goldberg, a lawyer for Straus’ daughter, Wendy Lubin. “It was designed by the garage company to provide Jay Leno with an unlawful private sale.” The car had been in the Straus family since 1931, when Straus’ dad, Herbert, had it delivered to the family’s home in Red Bank, N.J. John Straus bought the Duesenberg from his mother, and in the early 1950s put it and a 1930 Rolls-Royce in the Windsor Garage on the upper East Side. “This car meant a lot to this family,” Goldberg said. “It was a precious family heirloom.” The suit, filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, accuses the Windsor Garage owners of taking advant
