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# Car of Max Factor heir found in Santa Monica
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/car-of-max-factor-heir-found-in-santa-monica/
- Published: 2003-01-20T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:21:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The car of Andrew Luster, fugitive and Max Factor heir, was found in Santa Monica on Sunday, which adds further speculation of where the wanted man has taken refuge.

Luster, 39, is facing 87 criminal counts, including rape and poisoning women with gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as GHB. He jumped his $1-million bail on Jan. 3\. The fugitive’s dog was located at his mother’s home in Northern California last week, but law enforcement officials still had no leads on Luster’s whereabouts.

Luster’s green, 1999 Toyota Forerunner was found on the 200 block of 10th Street after an unknown person reported a suspicious vehicle to Santa Monica police. Several parking tickets were placed on the windshield of the car, and it appeared as if the vehicle had been sitting at the location for a couple of weeks.

An official at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the found car was Andrew Luster’s, but declined to comment further until more information was gathered. The vehicle is being held in Santa Monica and will be checked for fingerprints.

Luster, who lived in the beach-front community of Mussel Shoals in Ventura County, supported himself with a trust fund and real estate investments while pursuing his hobby of surfing. He is the great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor.

Luster has been charged with slipping the drug GHB into the women’s drinks and then forcing sex on them while they were either unconscious or too weakened to resist.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 20, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)