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

[Anonymous]

She has an article in Vanity Fair about her new book coming out in September. Wow! Steve Jobs was really abusive to her. And then when he was dying, the stepmom and her half siblings wouldn't speak to her when she visited.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter

"Then, in 1980, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, sued my father for child-support payments. My father responded by denying paternity, swearing in a deposition that he was sterile and naming another man he said was my father.

I was required to take a DNA test. The tests were new then, and when the results came back, they gave the odds that we were related as the highest the instruments could measure at the time: 94.4 percent. The court required my father to cover welfare back payments, child-support payments of $385 per month, which he increased to $500, and medical insurance until I was 18. The case was finalized on December 8, 1980, with my father’s lawyers insistent to close. Four days later Apple went public and overnight my father was worth more than $200 million."

[Anonymous]

This has been pretty well known, hasn't it?

He was hideous to her.

[Anonymous]

Yup, most of this was described in his biography. He was a shitty father to her.

[Anonymous]

That's sad. I can't relate to parents who don't love their kids from birth.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

He was an a$$. This was well known. He just got a pass because he was a faux genius.

[Anonymous]

He was an ass in many ways, but he was also a genius.

Aside from putting apple on track to have a trillion dollar valuation, as of yesterday, his Pixar studio also produced its greatest films -- in large part to his extreme attention to detail and jerkiness. Toy Story, Cars, Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Nemo

[Anonymous]

Most like him are horrible, insufferable people.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most like him are horrible, insufferable people.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Don't put Mark Zuckerberg in the same category as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. He is by all accounts a loving father.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most like him are horrible, insufferable people.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Don't put Mark Zuckerberg in the same category as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. He is by all accounts a loving father.

Musk isn’t?

[Anonymous]

The man is a d**k. He said he felt loved by his adopted parents, yet he couldn't give an ounce of that to his daughter.

[Anonymous]

It's appalling, to me especially because he has other kids that he didn't treat the same way. Why he would single out this poor girl.... He had a relationship with the mother for YEARS, and although it had its ups and downs, it seemed like he really cared for the mom at some points. So why he would react so negatively to his own child is so strange. And he even named a computer after his kid, WTF? ("the Lisa".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most like him are horrible, insufferable people.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Don't put Mark Zuckerberg in the same category as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. He is by all accounts a loving father.

Musk isn’t?

I don't know anything about Musk's parenting, but I am sure Mark Zuckerberg would not deny paternity after seeing a DNA test that his kid was his, and I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't leave the mother of his baby to go on welfare and spend her days cleaning houses to feed their child.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Was he a better father to his younger kids?