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Steve Jobs' Yacht Seized As Heirs Won't Pay
Steve Jobs' EUR150mm yacht has been confiscated by a court in Amsterdam following Jobs' heirs decision not to pay the designer of the boat. As Holland's Nu.nl reports, the famous designer Philippe Starck had an 'agreement' with Steve Jobs that he would receive 6% of the price (or EUR9mm) of creating the yacht as his payment for designing the epic 80-meter, 27-iMac-controlled behemoth. Unfortunately, the 'agreement' was not on paper as the two men were 'friends' and so the heirs to Steve Jobs fortune have decided that the EUR6mm that Starck has received is quite enough. The yacht remains moored in the Port of Amsterdam under bailiff control. Must be a tough life eh?
To us - the boat looks a little too 'Lego', but still...
(h/t Peter J. M.)
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Nice boat. Shame it's stuck in those filthy canals. I'll bet it smells great.
Hey where is the story of NRA talk.
Some body actually makes sense and it vanishes. What The Fuck.
No written contract? Sorry Starck, but amateurs don't get paid. And when you're talking "grown-up money", you need to have a contract. Now go back to design-fag land and have a good cry. The Jobs clan is going to rip your balls off, and they won't be wrong. They should sell it to some Saudi prince anyway. It's an ugly boat.
That thing is longer than the dorms at Foxconn.
like the pharaohs of old...
All your yachts are belong to us...
Update..
New owner and designer Philipeepee Starck has commenced a retrofit to the vessel’s control system that puts all components under the control of 19 Android handsets.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=319327000¢erx=4.7...
(crew provided by FoxConn)
Zerohedgers are notorious for having bad luck with boats. Seems like everytime we bring our guns and bullion on board the damn things sink.
BTW that is one butt ugly boat.
This is the new European socialist democracy. Who need a stinky contract anyway? It is just a remnant of an old capitalistic free-market society.
Dude you are out of line. If the guy performed services at an agreed upon price he should get paid. They had a gentlemen's agreement. Sad those arent honored anymore. You think they guy should get screwed because he didnt have a peice of paper? Enjoy your Obamaphone you freeloader.
They should honour their fathers agreements. Without him they would be nothing...
This is EU socialist democracy. Who need a contract anyway? It is just a remnant of an old capitalistic free-market system.
How do you know they had "a oral contract"? Did you witness it? You see, Jobs is conveniently unable to confirm or deny it.
All you lawyer types trying to get something for free. The boat was not created from an immaculate conception. Someone actually had to do something. If there was an agreement between Jobbs, no dought there is an e-mail or two at least. I am positive this thing was not designed and build via some secret hand shake. IF the guy legitimately built that boat, he has a lean and a right to be compensated.
The article has said that it was "an oral agreement". Therefore, there are no paper or electronics trails to substantiate the claim.
By the way, you own me $100M per our oral agreement. How soon will you fulfill your contractual obligations?
Please show me the object you supposedly produced, valued at $100M, and we can workk a payment plan. THERE IS A BOAT.
Shrimping........ is tough.
An oral contract does not imply that there is not also written or electronic documentation as evidence to the terms of the agreement.
Maybe they are, I wouldn't assume the type A micromanager of his entire domain Steve Jobs would allow open ended multi million dollar "gentleman's agreement" for a boat he was working on for decades to be "fixed" by his heirs, it's not like the builders didn't know he was terminal and could expire at any minute.
Jobs wouldn't do that, I'm sure he prepaid for everything.
"If the guy performed services at an agreed upon price he should get paid."
Sure. But: what was the agreement about?? No proof, no money in our modern world. How many companies did Job's rotten company willfully sue into ruin?
You dont know there is no proof. I do know the boat is real and someone through the sweat of their back built it. If some lawyer is able to cheat the boat builder out of his work, it is another tick in the column of the lawyers ruined everything.
Agree - there's nothing wrong in paying the builder. Which intimate friend of the Jobs clan Philippe Starck ain't not. He should have known better, after all. When you sleep with the dogs, don't be surprised if you wake up with fleas.
Cant they both be wrong?
The Jobs' are jewbears for renigging and not paying.
Designer is stupid for not signing a contract and stupid for trying to fight it without having any legal documents to back his case.
There's this quaint little thing called the Statute of Frauds. You should look into it!
assuming evidence, there's a number of legal actions without a written contract
but it is an ugly boat
The heirs are holding out because it didn't come with Google Maps.
I love boats - but that thing makes my eyes hurt. It does not even look seaworthy, immagine being offshore with a following sea....that fat arse would not make for a comfortable or even controlable ride.
Looks lightly built too, perhaps to enable the chineese galley slaves to work up decent speed with the oars. The portals for the oars are clearly visible just above the waterline, at least the guests on the upper decks will not have to see the rowing slaves.
It reminds me faintly of the old submarines from WWI.
That thing was made to be sunk.
When you are talking about a large quantity of money, you have to be aware of the "statue of frauds". No contract? Too bad.
That Philippe Starck is some kind of "friend", eh, to sue the family in their grief.
Rotten "Apple" kids!
Or they cut to commercial
Hey, fuck off, at least we know how to keep our kids safe at school
I'm sure some dumb trendy in Manhattan will buy it. Surely it's better than every other boat ever designed.
And unsinkable..if ony because as ugly as that boat is, "the Deep" would probably puke it back up if it tried to sink.
LOL.
It's the boat that won't flush!
The embarrasment of having to board that boat is probably what killed him.
What's moorage like in Manhatten? For the price, that is alot of square feet compared to a penthouse.
Boat designers gave up shapes like that in 1904..............
All THAT went on your igadget bill, you know...YOU paid for it...
hideous lines
I guess if you suck on the tit of trickle down you can make any bullshit as long as the rich pay for it.
one would think a dude that rich could afford a french curve
I think it looks alright - in that glass missile frigate sort of way.
probable winner of the next cardboard boat race
It's not designed for speed, but rather for pretentiousness.
the isink lulz
You can almost see the seams in the plywood.
Indeed. One ugly ass boat.
Piece of iShit!
Is that a row of iMac monitors on the bridge? That's fuckin ridiculous.
iSore
Looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright creation.
I gave you an up arrow...I hate Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
Looks like it could run aground in an office park and not be noticed.
<<edit>> I'm sorry, but a yacht owned by a world-class super-rich industrialist should give my eyes visions of me clad in silk, drinking Dom Perig-non out of a silver goblet, surrounded by the most well-groomed bikini babes in all the south seas, gently mingling about the many gilded staterooms full of the most interesting people in the world, talking oil, and gold, and Rembrandt, and pussy, and how rich I am.
This, rather, is floating performance review, and worse, one that gives YOUR eyes an "unsatisfactory" rating.
Fuck you boat, and fuck Jobs' iCorpse, and Happy Christmas ZH.
This "boat" is a perfect candidate for an artificial reef.
The iAsperger
Maybe John Kerry needs a new boat for his new gig. Can Obama simply confiscate it for him?
Kerry buys them from New Zealand and "parks" them in Rhode Island because it is the one thing not taxed in Rhode Island and the Massachusetts' taxes make his wife hurt in the wallet.
Apples don't fall from the tree I guess. Bloody ugly boat too. Gezz. What a waste of money.
Aah, First World problems.....how I love thee...let me count the ways:
EUR6mm for designing a pile of shit. Not bad work if you can get it. Makes a house boat look sexy.
Yachts are not supposed to be simple looking...
Yikes. what a scow! (Iscow)Looks like a sightseeing tourist boat on the Seine.
I'd be afraid to sail that thing outside of a duck pond.
What the hell does Philippe Starck know about boats anyway?
I can't say what he knows about boats, but I'm sure he's learning a whole lot about the importance of proper contract negotiation right now.
It looks like a Star Destroyer with a Japanese Shito Shrine on top of it.
Yes !
A Feng Shui NIGHTMARE !!
Office building in Menlo Park or Palo Alto.
Fugley boat.
Who are Stevie's greedy little bastards?
I would want a refund from the designer. Yuck.
Are you people crazy , do you know how expensive Legos are nowadays ?
why not all made of gorilla glass and go for the floating iceberg look?
the estate says its an a ugly barge..you can haveit..lol
Now that's something an ole pirate can get behind.
Ugliest house boat I have ever seen.
The hull looks like an old dreadnought. The superstructure looks like a houseboat. Fail.
beautiful ship, /es breaks 1416 we could be in for a fun time. and its getting close.
Japanese-Techno-Box, methinks. What a soulless piece of crap that thing is.
I say let them keep it. It's clear that Job's sense of style only applied to phones.
My hero!
RIP, greatest man EVER. The Jesus of our age. Consume, and be born again!
Fuck you, Dutch people - your golden age ended centuries ago. Ha, ha!
edit: Frank Lloyd Right is cursing from his grave - for real.
A blasted U-boat looks nicer than that iBoat............
for those who can hardly afford a little rubber pool //
and a rubber ducky.. and live in small 2100 sq ft ugly houses.. to make comments about ugly is looking streight in the mirror
Brilliant!
I can't afford it but I still know it's ugly.
If I could afford it, it would still be ugly.
I may be ugly, but I know how to spell straight.
lol. Your comments always make me laugh Dr.
Cheers
Looks like an "Imperial" cruiser.
"I can't get nooo, satisfaction."
Maybe he can design our Deathstar it goes out for bid next week. And we won't be needing a signed contract as all involved will be liquidated on launching. Bitchez!
"Let the games begin!"
Ceasar Augustus
That boat is so square it would make Oscar Niemeyer wet from distress in his curvaceous grave!
Starck is man who is true to his name! Starck naked of all graces!
I would say to them we split that boat down the middle and you pay me 5% for proposing that easy and aesthetic solution out of court.
WHere's my cut damn it!
Life is so tough at the top
That ugly boat looks like it was designed to sink with all of Jobs' PMs and guns aboard.
very symmetrical paddles holes as one would expect from ***holes
The Ugliest thing on the water I've ever seen.
What.A.Fucking.WASTE.
As if the world needs MORE examples of a Jerry Jones monument to himself.
Butt ugly.
Seeing this monstrosity makes me wonder exactly how much credit Jobs should be given for being a visionary. Can you imagine that thing in 20' seas with a stiff gale blowing?
Even without sails, this thing looks like a broach waiting to happen Caine Mutiny style.
It obviously is not easy to be different yet better than everyone else.
Leave it to a technogeek to dump 100 million into a yacht and have it turn out looking like an office building by the shore. Gross.
No respect for shipbuilding traditions at all. I wouldn't want to get caught out in a storm on that barge.
I read somewhere the pilot house controls are nothing more than 7 imac computers.
Check out the Fleming boats- When I hit the lotto here's where I will shop-
http://flemingyachts.com/
This is how singles who make over $200k/yr and couples who make over $250k/yr roll./
Fugly come to mind. Money doesn't equal taste- never has, never will.
Some wealthy guy in China will buy it. Just to say he own's Steve Job's yacht.
I'd bet if you were on it, the lines and looks would be very aesthetic.
The lines of construction look linear over long reaches and that probably made for excellent bang for the buck and ease of design in ways.
Me thinks it looks a lot like a submarine...just once down, don't let that ugly bucket surface again!
It's got about as much charm as an frn.
'Mo money, 'mo problems.
MF Global's Jon Corzine loved Laurene Powell-Jobs when she worked for Goldman Sachs.
A vampire-squidite loved by Mother Fucker Corzine fucking over a friend with no written contract. Shocker.
Would you pay for a design like that???? Some friend!
Is it any wonder why the boat designer won't be getting paid?
Who built that thing? Houseboats "R"Us?
I can see the name on the back: iFuck
Only fitting that the iBoat would have no "flash"!
So now a Government can hold property based on the allegation of a "verbal agreement"?
I think this is more about Governments confiscating property, on the flimsiest of pretexts.
How delusional Jobs could get: he builds himself a yacht when he was terminally ill? I bet he donated $.02 over his entire life to St. Jude Children Hospital?
What an ugly piece of shit
Faith restored in crazy ZH-ers! Upvotes to all who recognize that this boat was clearly designed by someone who hates boats. You can be conservative, liberal, a gun nut, or a tree hugger, gold crazy , or a troll.
The only thing that really crosses the line for me is someone who doesn't get what a boat is supposed to look like... That is truly off the range..
Just like all other apple products; an example of obsession with design screwing up the true potential of the function. They should be forced to park this piece of shit in front of the apple main office. And have their design staff act out scenes from the Titanic movie as this "ship", goes down with the stock..
A little off topic, but is anyone else watching the Sandy Hook Hoax videos on YouTube?
A "little" off topic??? WTF?
The anchor looks nice at least.
I wouldn't fish for cod in the Bering sea off this shitbox. WB7 can't even make this catastrophe look worse.
cheap jews wont pay up?!? shocking!!!
Jobs' heirs proving that being an asshole is an heritable trait. Hope it gets sold at a lienholder's auction for 4 million, 3 for the designer and 1 mil left over to split among the greedy shitheads.
Maybe BFI will buy it & retro fit it. It'd be a great garbage scow. They could name it iTrash.
enquiring minds need to know
So is this the copy of Bill Gates boat?
For his sake, hope it's not Siri controlled...
Considering the circumstances that doesn't matter.
Which Siri? Tom "Cruise" turkey baster child is the boat captain?
Those gun banning f***ing scum in Hollywood can always use this POS "boat" for a remake of the "classic" Houseboat with Fairy Grant and Sophia Loren.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge7EPiCn2Jw
Damn she was hot. I bet even Fairy Grant got wood with her.
God that iBoat is a real POS. My guess is Phillippe Strack probably did design it because it is so damn ugly. Built with Chinese slave labor money.
I think I see ananonymous holding the oar in portal #3!
dies ist nicht Das Boot
You can't fault the designer for not getting anything in writing (not even an E-mail). He had no reason to believe his "oral contract" wouldn't be fulfilled. Jobs death was so sudden and unexpected it caught everyone off guard!
Bill Gates has DOS Boot.
I swear to G-d that I did not know who Steve Jobs was when I read the headline. I thought he might be related to the Apple guy though. History will forget almost everyone.
Looks like a shaved Imperial Battlecruiser!
Starck thought Jobs was his FRIEND?
No such thing in Steve's world.
Douche spoiled iChildren
Monsewer Starck is a commercial architect designer, works on very large commercial and exotic projects all around the world, with very serious, business-like clients. There is no way his office would allow him to do anything if the fee agreement was not watertight. Unless he was doing this as a freebie for a friend.
I seriously doubt he was the boat 'designer', more like the stylist on top (that is why it looks like a barge not a boat).
Now we know what happens when you hire a brick layer to design a boat.