At the time of his death, Steve Jobs was a multi-billionaire, but according to his eldest daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, he was far from generous with his money or his affection while he was alive. In fact, the co-founder of Apple initially claimed he wasn’t the father of Lisa, whose mother is artist Chrisann Brennan. Chrisann relied on welfare checks and house cleaning jobs to make ends meet. Jobs only agreed to pay child support after he was sued.
In her 2018 memoir, “Small Fry,” via The New York Times, Brennan-Jobs explained that as a teenager, she moved in with her dad, who could flip from being insensitive to overbearing. When she became involved with extracurricular activities in high school, he told her, “This isn’t working out. …. “You’re never around. If you want to be a part of this family, you need to put in the time.” In an excerpt from the book published in Vanity Fair, the author detailed how volatile Jobs could be.
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After driving to his house one night, she asked her father for his slightly-used Porsche when he was done with it. “Absolutely not,” he said….”You’re not getting anything.” Before the tech innovator’s death in 2011, Brennan-Jobs learned the answer to a question she’d been asking him her entire life. On a father-daughter visit to Bono’s villa in the South of France, the U2 frontman asked him, “So, was the Lisa computer named after her?” “Yeah, it was,” Jobs said.
