In Popular Culture
Britney Spears is driving a Maybach 57 in the video of her international #1 single Womanizer, steering the car with her foot while having her way with a scared male in the back of the car.
The documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret shows Madonna in the back of a Maybach 57 which appears to be her private car.
Rapper Rick Ross has named his record label Maybach Music Group in reference to the car brand, the label's logo being a variation of the car brand's. Ross also released a series of "Maybach Music" songs, there are currently four of them. Model Jessica Gomes is noted for now-famous "Maybach Music" quote, in numerous Rick Ross & MMG songs.
Rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West are shown customizing a Maybach 57 in the 2011 video for the song "Otis".
Korean pop group Girls' Generation featured Jessica sitting in a Maybach 57 in their 2012 music video for their Japanese song "Time Machine".
Rappers Birdman and Nicki Minaj are shown sitting in a Maybach car in the music video for the song Y.U. MAD.
In Transformers: Dark of the Moon ex–sector 7 agent Seymour Simmons (John Turturro) owns a Maybach 62 Landaulet.
It was widely reported that Sean Combs (Puff Daddy or P. Diddy) presented his son Justin with a $360,000 Maybach car (and chauffeur) as a 16th birthday present.
Elizabeth Taylor arrived at the Los Angeles memorial for Michael Jackson in a $500,000 Maybach sedan.
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