Lisa Brennan: Steve Jobs Daughter's New Book and Article in Vanity Fair

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Anonymous wrote:Was he a better father to his younger kids?

Who knows? They were probably well taken care of inheritance wise, so less incentive to talk.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kid. That must have been so hurtful. Where does it say that the step-mom and half-siblings ignored her? I didn't see that in the article.

It's a quick line about a third of the way through.

Anonymous wrote:Later, I would put everything back. But now, between avoiding the housekeeper, my brother and sisters, and my stepmother around the house so I wouldn’t be caught stealing things or hurt when they didn’t acknowledge me or reply to my hellos, and spraying myself in the darkened bathroom to feel less like I was disappearing—because inside the falling mist I had a sense of having an outline again—making efforts to see my sick father in his room began to feel like a burden, a nuisance.

That's sad. Laurene Jobs styles herself as a philanthropist. You think she'd have some kindness in her for a child who her husband treated terribly.

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Wow, the part in the article where he denies naming the computer after her to her face, then tells Bono that he really *did* name the computer after her.... how weird. Cruel, and sad.

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Is Laurene Jobs still dating former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty?

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Wow, that's sad. I thought at least the siblings would treat her decently. It doesn't speak well of Powell-Jobs either.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Laurene Jobs still dating former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty?

So says wikipedia

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Did she receive anything in her father's will?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor kid. That must have been so hurtful. Where does it say that the step-mom and half-siblings ignored her? I didn't see that in the article.

It's a quick line about a third of the way through.

Anonymous wrote:Later, I would put everything back. But now, between avoiding the housekeeper, my brother and sisters, and my stepmother around the house so I wouldn’t be caught stealing things or hurt when they didn’t acknowledge me or reply to my hellos, and spraying myself in the darkened bathroom to feel less like I was disappearing—because inside the falling mist I had a sense of having an outline again—making efforts to see my sick father in his room began to feel like a burden, a nuisance.

That's sad. Laurene Jobs styles herself as a philanthropist. You think she'd have some kindness in her for a child who her husband treated terribly.

I wonder if the estrangement with the stepmom and half siblings has something to do with the book Chrisann Brennan wrote.

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Wow, she is really spilling the tea on the Jobs legacy.

Jobs always seemed like the type who could never admit he made a mistake or did someone wrong. His poor treatment of The Woz is endemic of his amoral mindset. Further, treating your own blood daughter this way is just absolutely twisted.

I think all of his crappy behavior caught up to him when he got cancer: he tried all these quackish therapies instead of relying on professional advice.

I think this passage from biographer Walter Isaacson sums up Jobs's greatest flaw and explains the relationship with his estranged daughter:

"I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something,” Isaacson told CBS CBS -0.08%, “if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. And it had worked for him in the past.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-cancer-treatment-regrets/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor kid. That must have been so hurtful. Where does it say that the step-mom and half-siblings ignored her? I didn't see that in the article.

It's a quick line about a third of the way through.

Anonymous wrote:Later, I would put everything back. But now, between avoiding the housekeeper, my brother and sisters, and my stepmother around the house so I wouldn’t be caught stealing things or hurt when they didn’t acknowledge me or reply to my hellos, and spraying myself in the darkened bathroom to feel less like I was disappearing—because inside the falling mist I had a sense of having an outline again—making efforts to see my sick father in his room began to feel like a burden, a nuisance.

That's sad. Laurene Jobs styles herself as a philanthropist. You think she'd have some kindness in her for a child who her husband treated terribly.

I wonder if the estrangement with the stepmom and half siblings has something to do with the book Chrisann Brennan wrote.

You don't visit the sins of the mother on the daughter. Particularly when the daughter is already suffering from the sins of the father. If the book wasn't an impediment for Lisa to see Steve Jobs, don't know why the stepmom and kids would take a harder line. They of all people should have some empathy for a half sibling who was on welfare due to the stinginess of their father who was already ridiculously wealthy.

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This is sickening. Whatever passed between Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, it's not the fault of their child. I'm really shocked by the cruelty this poor woman had to endure from her family.

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Anonymous wrote:Did she receive anything in her father's will?

Does anyone know this?