In a recent disclosure which brings to limelight the much rumor-mongered Venus high-tech yacht, which was commissioned by Apple's late CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, Dutch paper Het Financieele Dagblad has reported that the yacht has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a bill dispute.

According to the report, the dispute involving the minimalist-in-design Venus yacht pertains to an unpaid bill to French designer Philippe Starck, who has claimed that he is still to receive a 3-million euros payment from Jobs' heirs. The claimed payment is part of the total of 9-million euros fee for the Venus project.

With Job's still owing Starck the mentioned amount, the designer reportedly called in the debt collectors to have the Venus yacht impounded at the Port of Amsterdam on Wednesday evening; a development which has been confirmed by the port authorities.

Going by the information which Roelant Klaassen - the lawyer who is representing Starck's company, Ubik - shared with the Reuters news agency, the yacht will remain in port till the lawyers representing Jobs' estate make the pending payment to Starck.

About the unpaid bill to Starck, Klaassen said that, ever since the Venus yacht project got underway in 2007, Jobs and Starck had had "a lot of detailed talk." Klaassen further added that since Jobs and Starck "trusted each other," there "wasn't a very detailed contract" with regard to the total fee for the project.