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For many Apple fans, Steve Jobs left some pretty big shoes to fill at Apple when he died. Now someone has paid a record $218,000 for the privilege of knowing just how big those shoes were.

The “well used” but “intact” brown sued Brikenstocks, which Jobs wore in the 1970s and ’80s, set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals at auction, auction house Julien’s Auctions said Sunday. The buyer wasn’t identified.

“The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which had been shaped after years of use,” the auction house said in the listing on its website.

The sandals, which were saved from the trash by a former house manager, were expected to fetch $60,000 to $80,000, but the final sale price with an accompanying NFT was $218,750, Julien’s said.

The sandals had been in several exhibitions over the years, including one with the Brikenstock company that was attended by Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ former partner and the mother of his first child, Lisa. She said the sandals were part of Jobs’ “uniform” during a 2018 interview with the German edition of Vogue.

“He would never have done or bought anything just to stand out from others,” she told the magazine. “He was simply convinced of the intelligence and practicality of the design and the comfort of wearing it.”

Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011, at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Elon Musk will no longer be deposed by Twitter’s lawyers on Thursday morning, after both sides agreed to a delay as they worked to close the $44 billion purchase of the social media network, the Financial Times and Bloomberg report. Musk was scheduled to be deposed for two days in Tesla’s home of Austin, Texas starting at 9:30AM, ahead of the trial’s scheduled start on October 17th. His deposition was previously pushed back from its original September 28th date due to COVID-19 exposure concerns.

Musk has agreed to proceed with the purchase on the condition that Twitter drop its lawsuit against him. But the FT reports that negotiations are being held up over concerns that Musk could still attempt to get out of the deal if his $13 billion of debt financing falls through. The CEO has reportedly attempted to add a new contingency to the deal that would allow him to walk away if his debt financing isn’t received, which Twitter is pushing back on.

Twitter wants “precise contractual protections from the court to guarantee that Musk would close the deal,” according to the FT.

Musk’s apparent change of heart about the deal this week follows months of legal analysts casting doubt on the strength of his case. The CEO waived due diligence when he signed the deal in April, undermining subsequent attempts to question Twitter’s spam account numbers. The legal battle has been an invasive process

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