{"id":184792,"date":"2023-09-09T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=184792"},"modified":"2023-09-09T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:33:08","slug":"ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-scraps-67-6-million-purchase-of-abandoned-superyacht-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-scraps-67-6-million-purchase-of-abandoned-superyacht-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Scraps $67.6 Million Purchase of Abandoned Superyacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-3837049335\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p class=\"custom-paragraph\">BLOOMBERG: Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is changing course on his purchase of a superyacht abandoned by a Russian heiress after she launched a legal battle over the vessel.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2799761293\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:169\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:576\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:432\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">Schmidt, who won the 267-foot superyacht for $67.6 million at a public auction in June, withdrew his offer several days ago, Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s ambassador to the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-09-08\/eric-schmidt-scraps-superyacht-purchase-amid-legal-wrangling?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;utm_campaign=email\">told Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">\u201cSchmidt, because of the legal wrangling, determined that we could not give him clear title of the ship,\u201d Sanders said in a Friday interview. \u201cThat\u2019s not accurate, because the ship belongs to us, it is owned by the government.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"antig-2336447\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"htlad-native_story\">\n<div id=\"htlad-4\" class=\"htl-ad\" data-unit=\"native_story\" data-eager=\"\" data-sizes=\"0x0:343x382,300x250|768x0:728x271,300x250|1024x0:722x274,300x250\" data-prebid=\"0x0:native_story-Mobile|768x0:native_story-Tablet|1024x0:native_story-Desktop\">\n<div id=\"htlad-4-gpt\" class=\"htl-ad-gpt htl-size-722x274\" data-google-query-id=\"COrTz5DfnYEDFcAb0AQdFdQPIg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/22893930714\/native_story_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">The Alfa Nero, as the luxury yacht is called, was abandoned in Antigua\u2019s Falmouth Harbor in March 2022 \u2014 one of the many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themessenger.com\/business\/where-are-all-the-toys-and-assets-of-the-russian-oligarchs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">glittering vessels and properties<\/a>\u00a0cast aside by sanctioned Russian elites following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2668285262\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">Lawyers for Yulia Gurieva-Motlokhov, daughter of Russian fertilizer magnate Andrey Guryev, claimed in a July legal appeal that she was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themessenger.com\/business\/russian-billionaires-daughter-says-superyacht-sold-to-former-google-ceo-is-hers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rightful owner<\/a> of the Alfa Nero. The luxury boat houses a baby grand piano and a swimming pool that converts into a helipad, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">The U.S. Treasury Department previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy0905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocked the\u00a0<\/a>yacht sale due to Guryev\u2019s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20230601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">removed<\/a>\u00a0it from the sanctions list earlier this year. Guryev formerly headed PhosAgro, one of the world&#8217;s largest phosphate-based fertilizer producers.<\/p><div id=\"antig-284300173\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_0783\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\">Eric Schmidt headed Google between 2001 and 2011, and left the board of Google\u2019s parent, Alphabet, in 2019. He currently has a net worth of about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/eric-schmidt\/?sh=13817ec6138e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$20 billion<\/a>, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"border-y border-grey-3 pt-5 pb-2 my-8 md:my-10 font-sans\">\n<div class=\"mb-5 md:flex md:items-center md:justify-between\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-3125837402\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLOOMBERG: Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is changing course on his purchase of a superyacht abandoned by a Russian heiress after she launched a legal battle over the vessel. 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