Crash damages Michael Fux's rare Ferrari Enzo

A rare Ferrari Enzo sports car owned by mattress multi-millionaire Michael Fux, a Red Bank restaurant owner and a classic car collector, sustained heavy damage this week in crash on Interstate 95 in Stamford, Conn.

Ferrari built fewer than 400 of the cars, which are each valued at more than $600,000.

Fux's car was being driven by a technician for Miller Motorcars, a Greenwich-based luxury car dealership, when it crashed on an interstate entrance ramp on Monday morning, police said.

Fux, 71, is listed as living in Long Branch, according to public voting records

The red 650-horsepower car began to fishtail on the northbound entrance ramp for Exit 7 in Stamford, struck the a bridge wall, then spun across three lanes of traffic and crashed into the center divider, police said.

The driver and a passenger, who were not identified, escaped serious injury.

The dealership declined to comment on the accident.

Fux and his family immigrated in 1958 to the United States from Cuba. He was 15 years old and the family was poor, according to a 2013 story about Fux in Bed Times, the business journal for sleep products.

"My parents, my brother and I lived in a one-bedroom apartment in a seven-story walkup in Newark," Fux said in the story. "We had Salvation Army furniture. I had one pair of shoes."

Determined to help change his circumstances, within a year, Fux launched his first business, parlaying an obsession with cars and a knack for scrounging around into a tire and battery store, according to the story.

In 1996, using the knowledge he had gained at BioClinic, a producer of polyurethane foam egg crate mattresses for the hospital sector, he founded Sleep Innovations and began producing visco-elastic foam toppers, mattresses and pillows, according to the story.

Contributing: Associated Press and Staff Writer Hartriono Sastrowardoyo

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