Axl Rose Sues Beverly Hills Car Dealer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 13, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's not Guns N' Roses but cars and cash that have
rocker Axl Rose suing a Beverly Hills auto dealership.

The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims
the dealership failed to deliver two luxury cars after receiving
$20,000 in deposits and also failed to give the Guns N' Roses frontman
any money after selling his Ferrari.

Rose contends that Beverly Hills Classic Cars took his deposits but
violated oral agreements to get him a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo and a
2005 Porsche GT3.

The suit also contends the dealer sold his consigned 1999 Ferrari
Marinello [sic] but never paid him a promised $135,000 of the
proceeds.

After-hours calls to the dealer and its owner were not immediately
returned Thursday.

With Rose as frontman, Guns N' Roses reached superstar status in the
late 1980s after the release of ''Appetite for Destruction,'' which
includes hits such as ''Paradise City,'' ''Sweet Child O' Mine'' and
''Welcome to the Jungle.''

The band split in a bitter fallout, leaving only Rose and keyboard
player Dizzy Reed to soldier on under the Guns N' Roses banner. Former
members Slash (Saul Hudson) and Duff (Michael) filed a suit last
August against Rose for allegedly naming himself sole administrator of
the group's copyrights.