Last week there was a dispute over the payment of the yacht Steve Jobs commissioned, this resulted in the yacht being impounded in Amsterdam, today however it seems as if these problems have been resolved and the yacht released. AFP reports that Steve Jobs estate paid the designer to release it, but no specific amount was detailed.
“The Venus is no longer impounded, we have found a solution,” Gerard Moussault, a Hague-based lawyer for the Jobs estate, told AFP.
“A security deposit was paid into a bank account, but I cannot say for how much,” Moussault said after French designer Starck last week asked Amsterdam bailiffs to seize the sleek 70-metre (230-foot) yacht.
The yacht is still in Amsterdam due to bad weather, however according to sources it is to be ransported by ship to the United States to be turned over to the Jobs family at an unspecified date.
The 105 million euro ship was designed by Steve Jobs and set sail after his death. It is currently ported in Amsterdam awaiting a voyage to the United States where Laurene Powell Jobs and her family will enjoy it. In the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, he called the ship “sleek and minimalist,” with a control panel made up of non other than seven iMacs.
