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"Venus, the yacht that the late Steve Jobs commissionned before his death, is now free to sail, French newspaper Le Monde reports. According to lawyer G\u00E9rard Moussault, who represents Jobs' heirs, his clients have reached a temporary agreement in their dispute with designer Philippe Starck.\r\n\r\nAs you may remember, the high-tech ship had been impounded last week in the Netherlands over a reportedly unpaid $3.6 million bill.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;A solution has been found and a security has been lodged on a bank account for the boat to be free to leave,&amp;quot; Moussault said. The amount of this payment remains unknown, though it doesn't appear to correspond to the entire disputed bill.\r\n\r\nOriginally costing more than \u20AC100 million ($132 million) to build, the vessel was completed in October, but Starck is said to have only received \u20AC6 million of a \u20AC9 million commission he considers to be owed for his work. According to Steve Jobs' heirs, he was only supposed to receive a 6% commission based on the construction costs.\r\n\r\nAs Reuters previously noted, there &amp;quot;wasn\u2019t a very detailed contract,&amp;quot; as the boat was built on mutual trust between Jobs and the designer, whose collaboration is mentioned in Walter Isaacson's biography of the Apple co-founder.\r\n\r\nImage credit: Ed Oudenaarden / AFP / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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