This 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO, dubbed the “Mona Lisa of Ferraris”, had been sold… 48 million dollars in 2014, which then made it the most expensive vehicle in the world.
A real war of siblings would ensue.
The Court of Cassation has just put an end to this old dispute over the succession of the Ferrari collection.
Its value will have to be shared between the Bardinon heirs.
In 2014, Patrick Bardinon, one of the heirs of Pierre Bardinon, a wealthy industrialist and owner of one of the largest Ferrari collections in the world in Creuse, had sold the 250 GTO to a wealthy Taiwanese.
He had been prosecuted for "breach of trust" by Anne and Jean-François Bardinon, co-heirs, who demanded the reinstatement of the amount in the estate and accused their brother of having fraudulently appropriated this car on the death of their father.
Produced in only three copies in 1964
Initially, on March 7, 2019, the correctional court of Guéret (Creuse) had acquitted Patrick Bardinon but the Court of Appeal of Limoges, on the contrary, condemned him on January 8, 2020 to pay more than 52 million euros. euros in the estate, decision confirmed in cassation.
"It is for her father and with the aim of making rectitude and justice triumph that Mrs. Anne Bardinon led this legal battle of seven years", welcomed Julien Dami Le Coz, the lawyer of a party heiress. civil, in a statement to AFP.
In the 1970s, the industrialist Pierre Bardinon owned around sixty Ferraris, bought as wrecks.
The GTO 250, produced in only three copies in 1964 (out of 39 in total) and jewel of its private museum in Creuse, was acquired in 1978.
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