Colonel Gaddafi’s son reportedly had to settle a $450,000 hotel bill to get back the $70,000 Cadillac Escalade he abandoned there in 2007.

Here’s the kind of story that doesn’t come up every day. Saadi Gaddafi, described by the Daily Mail as the “playboy son” of late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is about to pay a $450,000 Italian hotel bill, if he wants to, get back the $70,000 Cadillac Escalade he is said to have left at the Excelsior Hotel in Italy in 2007.

Gaddafi spent six weeks at the Excelsior while playing for the Italian soccer team Sampdoria, a stay marked by the “lavish parties” he was throwing in his suite. He apparently checked out without taking his car or paying his bill, having suddenly left the country for his home country of Libya when he was left out of the team.

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Gaddafi’s armored Escalade has become a fixture and a “tourist magnet”, according to hotel management. But it looks like Excelsior manager Aldo Werdin is ready to settle the matter at long last. He tells the Daily Mail:

“We’ve been waiting 15 years for Mr. Gaddafi to settle his bill…Over the past few years, we’ve tried several times to try and resolve this issue but to no avail. We even called the Libyan embassy in Rome but they couldn’t help.”

Even the courts were powerless to resolve the situation, Werdin continues:

“A few years ago we decided to take the matter to court and we won and also ordered to pay the legal costs… We have to give [the car] Clean every now and then because having a dirty car outside the hotel wouldn’t be very good for the guests and it doesn’t even have an Italian record so we can’t drive it here. “

Gaddafi has just walked out of a seven-year prison sentence in Libya for the murder of soccer player Bashir al-Riyani, but it is not known if he will pay his long-awaited hotel bill or get his car back – or if he even wants to.



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