Sean Kingston can’t catch a break. In 2014, TMZ reported that, in the space of a week, two of the singer’s luxury vehicles had been repossessed. Having failed to keep up with payments for his swanky Mercedes Benz G-Class, the car was snatched from the “Beautiful Girls” star. Meanwhile, his Bentley was repoed as he stepped into the Mondrian Hotel, leading to a furious public outburst. Then, a third car was repoed, his Lamborghini Aventador, per Houston Style Magazine.
Kingston recalled the unpleasant ordeal to “Hollywood Unlocked,” but claimed that the deets were blown way out of proportion. “I lease my cars… I don’t care what nobody want to say, buying a car is the most dumbest thing ever,” he explained. The musician said that his Lamborghini was repossessed because he didn’t want to pay $4,000 a month for the car, seeing as he’d already dished out a down payment of $120,000.
On that fateful night at the Mondrian, Kingston explained, he was eating dinner with a date when he stepped outside and got the shock of a lifetime. “I see the tow truck making a U-turn, I’m like, ‘Yo, my car is on the back of the tow truck!'” he recalled. When the story broke, he was deeply embarrassed, mainly due to fabricated tales of his financial instability. “So you mean to tell me I can’t afford the Lamborghini Aventador, but I got all these other cars… That don’t add up, right?” he added.