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Apple founder Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs tells all in new book

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The book is called "Small Fry" which details a troubled relationship with Jobs, in it she describes how it took legal action for Jobs to even acknowledge her.

WHILE Apple billionaire Steve Jobs drove around in Porsches, the mother of his first child was forced to clean houses to survive.
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But the child took a DNA test, which gave a 94.4 per cent chance the two were related — the highest possible at that time.

As a result, Jobs was forced to pay $US385 ($AU520) a month — which he increased to $US500 ($AU675) — as well as medical insurance until his daughter turned 18.

Just four days after the case was finalised after having been rushed through by Jobs' lawyers, Apple went public.

Overnight, Jobs was worth $200 million.
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During one of those visits, the girl finally found the courage to ask her father if she could have his car once he was finished with it — an innocent question from a child that sparked a vicious reply.

"'Absolutely not', he said in such a sour, biting way that I knew I'd made a mistake," she wrote. 'You're not getting anything', he said. 'You understand? Nothing. You're getting nothing.'
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The coldness from her father and his new family — wife Laurene Powell and their three children, Eve, Reed and Erin Jobs — remained, even as Jobs was dying.
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What a piece of shit. What is it with rich people being assholes? You can afford the luxury of kindness, it won't kill you. In fact it will make you a better person. My wife is fascinated with these sorts of real life drama stories, just ordered the book for her and I'll have a read through as well.

Trillion dollar bill me if old.
 
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I thought they reconciled later on. I guess that wasn't really true..
 

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^same. surprised to hear as he was nearing death that she had a bad relationship with him and the rest of his family.
 
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Jobs was a complete piece of shit when it came to his daughter. Sad that even as he got older that never changed. Would think facing ones own mortality he might gave had a realization
 
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We should be thankful he died. No daughter deserves that. May he rot in hell.
 
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I thought they had reconciled.

Michael Fassbender lied to me
 
VorpalNonsense

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I'm not surprised. Jobs is famous for how much of an absolute shit he was. He was able to harness that asshole power to motivate his associates to achieve things that other lesser assholes would not, but make no mistake. His success was fueled by asshole power. Like, to the degree that Apple should have had little stickers on their machines like Intel Inside except they would have said Asshole Power.

Respect the accomplishments he helped shape, but not his character.
 
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The coldness from her father and his new family — wife Laurene Powell and their three children, Eve, Reed and Erin Jobs — remained, even as Jobs was dying.
Ms Brennan-Jobs described avoiding her brother, sisters and stepmother around the house during a sickbed visit "so I wouldn't be … hurt when they didn't acknowledge me or reply to my hellos".​

Ouch.
 

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Yeah, it's really weird most rich people seem to be complete assholes when they, in theory, could make life better for everyone with all their money which they have no idea what to do with other than to hord or invest to get even more of it (and still not give anything but the absolute minimum to their daughter)
 

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Yeah, he was a fucking deadbeat dad.

It figures all the stuff in those movies about him reconciling with his daughter was bullshit. And of course his "new" family treat her like shit, too.
 
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kageroo said:
Yeah, it's really weird most rich people seem to be complete assholes when they, in theory, could make life better for everyone with all their money which they have no idea what to do with otherwise than to hord or invest to get even more of it (and still not give anything but the absolute minimum to their daughter)
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Hey, Bill Gates started an asshole, and now in filthy rich old age seems like he's pretty cool now.
 
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kageroo said:
Yeah, it's really weird most rich people seem to be complete assholes when they, in theory, could make life better for everyone with all their money which they have no idea what to do with otherwise than to hord or invest to get even more of it (and still not give anything but the absolute minimum to their daughter)
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No, it's mine. All mine! And yours? That's mine too!
 

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Tapeworm said:
We should be thankful he died. No daughter deserves that. May he rot in hell.
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Nah. Were you aware of this prior to the post?

Were you just informed of his relationship due to this thread?

Nah just instant outrage. This forum is buggin' lately.

1.) Families are complicated.
2.) Dude died of pancreatic cancer....

Like I said Nah but cancer can rot in hell.
 
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Sounds evil.

Imagining being legally forced to cough out a measly couple of hundred dollars from all of your millions....for your own child.
 
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I thought their relationship had improved later in life. Guess not. And seems Jobs' family is as much shitheads as he was.
 
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Dynomutt said:
Nah. Were you aware of this prior to the post?

Were you just informed of his relationship due to this thread?

Nah just instant outrage. This forum is buggin' lately.
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I'm absolutely not supporting that guy's rot in hell post because that's clearly a bit much, but I do wanna say that Steve's reputation has been known since well before this. This is just adding to the pile and there's nothing instant about the "outrage" you see in this thread.
 
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Known POS continued being a POS up to his death bed. He really went down with that ship

Feel sorry for her, but at least she get something from the book sales. More than he ever gave her and her mother sounds like
 
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Jobs was always a piece of shit I'd be surprised if he didn't treat his daughter like trash
 
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I'm a little surprised, because reports including the official auto-biography mentioned how he had mellowed out and that his wife had helped his relationship with his first daughter. As I get older though, I see that people don't change. Asshole in the morning and asshole all day long.
 

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VitalNonsense said:
I'm absolutely not supported that guy's rot in hell post because that's clearly a bit much, but I do wanna say that Steve's reputation has been known since well before this. This is just adding to the pile and there's nothing instant about the "outrage" you see in this thread.
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Fair enough. Not defending the man just taking a step back to understand the situation.
 
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To think that just fifteen years ago, Bill Gates was considered the evil monopolist heading Microsoft, and Jobs was the wonderful genius heading Apple. I'm sure Gates was the most hated person on the internet after Bin Laden.

Fast forward to today and Gates will probably be remembered in the same way as a Rockefeller or Carnegie, while Jobs has turned out to be an utter scumbag.
 
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VitalNonsense said:
Hey, Bill Gates started an asshole, and now in filthy rich old age seems like he's pretty cool now.
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Seems he credits his wife Melinda with a massive portion of that over their lives. The pledge is an amazing thing they've pushed other mega-rich to be involved with. I don't doubt you have to have some asshole/arrogance to get where these people do, it doesn't mean you can destroy lives of other people or not change for the better.
 
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I've read a small part of the manuscript (the company I work for is producing the audiobook) and their relationship is definitely bizarre and very sad. As a father, Jobs seemingly had a few good moments and a lot of bad ones. I'll probably listen to the whole book as soon as the audio is done.

I remember a girl in high school whose mom dated Steve Jobs for a while. I was always curious what he was like but never asked. I guess we get to find out.
 

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Indefensible. This is fucking disgusting, and even worse is the fact that his whole family was equally scummy from what it looks like.
 
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evil solrac v3.0 said:
Jobs could have learned something from Gates, he learned to at least mellow out.
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Back when Jobs died there was talk about how even though Gates was associated with the ruthless Micro$oft and Jobs with the beloved cult Apple... Gates would go on to be the more respected one over time through his involvement in charity.

7 years later and I think it is SO true. Gates is generally talked about as a great benefactor to humanity these days, while Jobs is increasingly known as an S.O.B.
 
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