California Dentist’s Award for Lamborghini Scam Mostly Upheld

A woman who was scammed out of $75,000 by a car dealer promising to deliver her a newly repaired 1998 Lamborghini Diablo is entitled to most of an award granted by a trial court in southern California, a state appellate court said Monday.

In 2011, Nazita Gaff, a recently divorced dentist, dated Nader Amirvand, who said he was a car dealer and could sell her a damaged Lamborghini for a low price and repair it for her within three weeks.

Gaff wrote a check to Amirvand’s dealership, Golden Leasing Inc., but the car was never delivered. For over three years, ...