The Winklevoss twins—simply known as the “Winklevii” and forever immortalized as greedy douches by the excellent Armie Hammer in The Social Network—have finally decided to end their legal battles with Mark Zuckerberg over the controversial founding of Facebook.
Back in 2008, the Winklevii were awarded a $65 million settlement for commissioning Zuckerberg to design their own social networking site ConnectU in 2003, and an April 11 ruling by a federal judge upheld the decision, telling them their “litigation must come to an end.” However, with Facebook’s IPO evaluation recently estimated at $100 billion, it didn’t come as a surprise that the twins were looking to launch yet another appeal, this time in front of the Supreme Court.
Maybe the twins finally realized $65 million is still an obscene amount of money to get for doing absolutely nothing.
[via Reuters and Gawker]
