Jobs’s yacht seized in port over €3m bill as negotiations begin

A yacht built for the late Apple founder Steve Jobs was seized in the port of Amsterdam on behalf of the designer Philippe Starck over a €3m bill, a port spokesman said.

The ship, called Venus, was seized recently and Jobs’s heirs and representatives of Starck are negotiating to end the dispute, Jeroen Ranzijn, an Amsterdam-based port spokesman, said yesterday.

“The expectation is that the heirs and the Starck firm reach a settlement soon, maybe in the next few hours,” he said.