Lamborghini OC Party: Celebs, Helicopters, Fast Cars

Orange County Business Journal

May 18, 2008

By Sherri Cruz, Orange County Business Journal Staff

Lamborghini Orange County held a party to mark the launch of a laptop computer from Italy’s Automobili Lamborghini Holding SPA.

The event a Lamborghini Orange County’s Santa Ana showroom included Hollywood stars, Lamborghini officials, business leaders and others. The de3alership was tapped for the launch because it is tops in worldwide sales of Lamborghinis.

The laptops sell for about $3,200.

The event also doubled as a fundraiser for Santa Ana-based Mind Research Instituted and the After-School All, Stars of Los Angeles. Sossi Keuylian, owner of the dealership with brother Vik Keuylian and sisters Astrid and Nora, greeted attendees at John Wayne Airport, where the Keuylians flew stars in by helicopter. Celebrities included Luke Perry (“Beverly Hills, 90201”) and Eric Roberts (of Batman movie “The Dark Knight” due out this summer).

Laptop launch party: Lamborghini USA’s Pietro Frigerio, Sossi Keuylian, Luke Perry

Also lined up and awaiting the celebs: Lamborghinis. Each star got to drive a car to the dealership, Jamie Kennedy drove a gray Lamborghini. Perry drove a Gallardo Superleggera.

The guests walked a yellow carpet into the event, where they got goodie bags that included a bottle of Stag’s Leap red wine engraved with the Lamborghini OC logo, a Lamborghini computer mouse and other swag.

The Keuylians also are preparing for the scheduled 2009 opening of a 20,000-square-foot, two-story dealership on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach.