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AFP, 21 December 2012
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| The yacht ordered by Apple's late founder Steve Jobs and designed by French Philippe Starck's Ubik company at the De Vries shipyard in Aalsmeer on October 29, 2012. Steve Jobs' Dutch-built superyacht has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute between the late Apple founder's estate and designer Philippe Starck over an unpaid bill, a Starck lawyer said Friday. |
AFP - Steve
Jobs' Dutch-built superyacht has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a
dispute between the late Apple founder's estate and designer Philippe Starck
over an unpaid bill, a Starck lawyer said Friday.
"The
yacht has been impounded," Rotterdam-based lawyer Roelant Klaassen, who
represents French designer Starck's Ubik company, told AFP.
"There
is some unfinished business, namely two invoices which were issued by Ubik last
summer after Mr Jobs died," he said.
Amsterdam
court bailiffs seized the 70-metre (230-foot) long yacht following a request
from Starck's lawyer.
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| Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco on June 6, 2011. |
The Venus
reportedly cost over 100 million euros ($130 million) to build and was only
unveiled in October, just over a year after Jobs died.
Jobs'
estate says Starck should be paid a percentage of the overall cost of the
project, which took over five years to complete, while Starck says he should be
paid a fixed nine million euros for his contribution, Klaassen said.
Klaassen
said he was in contact with a Dutch lawyer representing the Jobs estate, Gerard
Moussault.
"Hopefully
we will come to an interim agreement with regard to security," Klaassen
said.
Moussault
declined to comment on the matter when contacted by AFP.
Jobs' family,
including widow Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Reed, Erin and
Eve, was supposed to take charge of the yacht in the United States.
Klaassen
said he had seen documents that show Jobs and Starck were "very close in
the period that the design was made and the building proceeded".
"That's
one of the reasons there was no formal agreement on the job," he said.
"The
most important thing for everyone is that the vessel can sail at a certain
moment and hopefully funds will be paid into the account of the lawyers of the
estate which can then be used as security," Klaassen said.
"Apparently
the vessel will be loaded on another vessel to be shipped to the States, I
think to California."
The
aluminium-hulled yacht was built by Royal De Vries shipbuilder's in Aalsmeer,
just south of Amsterdam, with interiors designed by Starck.
The bridge
features a control panel made up of an array of seven iMac computers.
Starck said
last year that he was working on the yacht, which was mentioned in Walter
Isaacson's biography of Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011. He said it was
"sleek and minimalist", with teak decks.
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