Steve Jobs superyacht impounded
2012-12-21 12:07
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Amsterdam - A superyacht built for Apple Inc's late co-founder
Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute over an unpaid
bill to designer Philippe Starck, a lawyer said on Friday.
Jobs, who died last year after making his name and fortune
at Apple, never got to use the yacht - called Venus - but had commissioned the
French designer to work on the vessel, which cost more than €100m
to build.
A lawyer representing Starck's company Ubik told Reuters his
client had received €6m out of a €9m commission for his work on the minimalist
vessel and was now seeking to recover the rest of what he was owed.
The yacht was impounded on Wednesday evening, the lawyer
said, and will remain in Amsterdam port pending payment by lawyers representing
Jobs' estate.
"The project has been going since 2007 and there had
been a lot of detailed talk between Jobs and Starck," Roelant Klaassen, a
lawyer representing Ubik, said.
"These guys trusted each other, so there wasn't a very
detailed contract," he said.
The lawyer representing Jobs' estate could not immediately
be reached for comment.
