Steve Jobs Daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs: What She Is Doing Now?

One of several shocking allegations about the Apple co-founder made by his daughter in her new memoir is that Steve Jobs told her she smelled “like a toilet” as he lay dying of illness.

In the recently released book Small Fry about Steve Jobs’s daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the software entrepreneur’s first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, describes their estranged relationship and how she felt toward her father after he denied her paternity for many years.

Brennan-Jobs was finally recognized as his daughter, but up until his passing, Jobs had a cold and distant connection with his oldest child.

Who is Lisa Brennan-Jobs

On May 17, 1978, in Portland, Oregon, Lisa Nicole Brennan, now Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was born. Her mother, Chrisann Brennan, and father, Steve Jobs, dated intermittently for five years after first meeting in high school. 

After helping to start Apple in 1977, Steve Jobs moved in with Chrisann and Daniel Kottke, one of his friends and coworkers. Chrisann became pregnant shortly after, but Jobs disputed fatherhood.

In Steve Jobs’ absence, Chrisann gave birth to their daughter on All One Farm Commune in 1978. He finally arrived three days after the baby was born, and the parents decided to give their child the name “Lisa.” 

Jobs continued to deny fatherhood, though, and Chrisann ended their relationship as a result. She decided to raise Lisa alone while housecleaning. 

She also brought the matter to court, where a legal settlement required Steve Jobs to pay Chrisann $385 monthly. He boosted the pay to $500 monthly once he hit the million-dollar mark. 

Later, Steve Jobs made an effort to make amends with his daughter. The father and daughter duo reconciled when Lisa was nine years old after he repeatedly apologized to Chrisann. 

Following their reconciliation, Lisa decided to rebrand herself as Lisa Brennan-Jobs rather than Lisa Nicole Brennan. In terms of her schooling, Lisa went to the Nueva School while she lived with her mother. 

Later, after moving home with her father, she joined Palo Alto High School. She studied at Harvard University in 1996 to graduate. She also completed a year of study abroad at King’s College London. 

Later Years

Lisa Brennan-Jobs wrote for “The Harvard Crimson” while she was a student at Harvard University. She relocated to Manhattan to pursue a career as a professional writer after graduating in 2000. 

She contributed to Spiked, The Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Harvard Advocate, and other publications. Lisa Brennan-Jobs currently writes for magazines and newspapers as well as her blog and as a freelancer. 

She has been mentioned in several of her father’s biographies, including Walter Isaacson’s official biography, “Steve Jobs.” In addition to this, she was portrayed in Mona Simpson’s 1996 book “A Regular Guy.”

She has also appeared in the three biopic films “Jobs,” “Steve Jobs,” and “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

Personal Life

Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan welcomed Lisa Brennan-Jobs into the world in Portland, Oregon. Erin, Eve, and Reed are her three half-siblings, born of her father’s union with Laurene Powell Jobs. 

She has a writer for an aunt named Mona Simpson. Her connection with her father was tumultuous. A computer project was given the name “the Apple Lisa” by Steve Jobs not long after she was born. 

He denied being the father, saying the project’s name was a shortened version of “Local Integrated Systems Architecture” and not after his daughter. 

Years later, Steve Jobs acknowledged that his daughter inspired the project’s name. He left a substantial bequest to Lisa Brennan-Jobs in his testament after his passing.

Jobs’ relationship with Lisa

Jobs and his daughter Lisa Brennan had a tense relationship. After years of rejecting a paternity test, he eventually acknowledged Lisa as his biological daughter after disowning her mother.

Given their strained connection, the sequence in Steve Jobs that shows Jobs delaying the next step in the digital revolution to apologize to his daughter and heal their relationship has additional resonance. The film is intended to be taken with a grain of salt.

How Jobs (2013) depicts the father-daughter relationship

The tumultuous bond between Lisa and Steve Jobs is briefly explored in the 2013 film Jobs on Steve Jobs, in which Ashton Kutcher portrays the main character. 

Jobs demonstrates the emotional connection that developed between the father and daughter over time, from initially rejecting the paternity test and refusing to acknowledge that Lisa is his daughter to finally accepting her into his care.

The keynote speech for the launch of Apple’s iconic iPod by Steve Jobs is groundbreaking, but it omits any mention of whether he made a commitment to furnish the music gadget to his estranged daughter.

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