An estate agent in London who sold her ex-boyfriend’s Lamborghini without permission has been landed with a legal bill of almost £300,000.
Erin Giumba, 28, who had a brief relationship with Ernest Siow, a Singaporean multimillionaire businessman, after they met at a Miami nightclub three years ago, secretly sold a £260,000 Lamborghini Urus SUV, which Siow had registered in her name.
The court heard that after the relationship ended, Giumba sold the green and black Lamborghini, which she claimed had been “gifted” to her, before spending the money on “holidays, clothes, clubs and alcohol”.
But Siow decided to sue Giumba, and she now faces a £300,000 court bill as a consequence after Judge Nichola Parfitt, at the Mayor’s and City county court in London, ruled that she had no right to sell the vehicle.
Giumba claimed in court that she had “no money”, but the the judge ordered that she hand her ex-boyfriend £219,500 — the sale price when she sold the car in 2022 — plus interest. The judge also ordered Giumba to pay Siow’s legal costs of £60,000.
Jonathan de Rohan, a barrister representing Siow, claimed that Giumba had “exploited” the businessman’s “generosity and kindness” and sold his car from “under his nose” after they broke up.
The judge told Giumba in court: “When you sold the car, that money shouldn’t have gone to you.”
