sentences:  The government had tried to buy the collection for less than $25 million.Fifteen years later India's Supreme Court finally fixed a price of about $65 million, much less than the $350 million the family (and the auction house Sotheby's) estimated the jewels were worth.The sole legitimate heir Mukarram Jah's share of the sale was $20 million, but lawsuits from the Nizam's other descendants have ensured that he has never seen the money, as "the case disappeared down the black hole of India's imponderable legal system".