The superyachts owned by two of the world's most infamous billionaires collided off the coast of Naples, Italy earlier this week. bid recently.
M exican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego posted a video on Instagram showing a sleek vessel approaching his mega yacht, Lady Moura. A mixture of gestures by the crew of the yacht to the incoming yacht, blowing the horn and shouting, was not enough to draw a timely response from the oncoming yacht to avoid the collision, and consequently, the originally designed for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs but today owned by Laurene Powell Jobs Venus, ran against the yacht Lady Moura. The scratch left by the clash on Salinas' yacht was significant, but in fact, it did not do worse or break up a hole in the hull.
In a playful jab at Powell Jobs, he encouraged his followers to go out and purchase Apple products from his retail chain, Grupo Elektra, to help pay for the repair job. He took to Instagram venting his frustration over how the crew of Venus could possibly have missed the huge yacht he was on, calling them "idiots."
Neither of the billionaires was onboard their respective yachts at the time of the incident, according to reports from Dagens news of Media Group Denmark.
She was a Philippe Starck design priced at $120 million, with a streamlined, glass-intensive look described to represent Apple's design esthetics. Unfortunately, Steve Jobs never took this yacht out on the water as he died in 2011. Lady Moura was built in 1990 and is very luxurious; she can take on 27 passengers and carries 72 crew members onboard.
This week, Laurene Powell Jobs ranked 126 globally through an estimated net worth of $14.4 billion she inherited from her late husband. She works extensively in philanthropy through her Emerson Collective and Waverley Street Foundation. Ricardo Salinas Pliego, on the other hand, is of Grupo Elektra and TV Azteca, put at having a net worth of $10 billion for him to feature as 221st on the rich list worldwide.