Name Venus Christened 2012 Identification MMSI number 319327000 Launched 28 October 2012 Owner Laurene Powell Place built Aalsmeer, Netherlands | Cost €100 million In service 2012-present Length 79 m Draft 3 m Builder Feadship | |
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Port of registry George Town, Cayman Islands | ||
Venus is a super yacht designed by Philippe Starck's design company Ubik and built by Feadship for the entrepreneur Steve Jobs. However, Jobs died in October 2011, the yacht was unveiled a year later at a cost of more than €100 million.
History
Venus was unveiled on 28 October 2012 at the Feadship shipyard in Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. The yacht was named for the Roman goddess of love.
The yacht was impounded on 21 December 2012 at the Port of Amsterdam following a dispute over payment. The designer, Philippe Starck, claimed that Jobs' heirs owed him €3 million of his €9 million fee for the project. The yacht was only impounded for a few days after a solution to the dispute was found.
References
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