Lisa Brennan-Jobs Biography
Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a writer from the United States. She is the daughter of Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, the co-founders of Apple. Jobs initially denied paternity for several years, resulting in a legal case and numerous media reports in Apple’s early days.
How old is Lisa Brennan-Jobs? – Age
She is 44 years old as of 17 May 2022. She was born in 1978 in Oregon, United States. Her real name is Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Family
Her mother, Chrisann Brennan, and father, Steve Jobs, first met in 1972 at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, and had an on-again, off-again relationship for the next five years. Jobs and Brennan moved into a house with their friend Daniel Kottke near the company’s Cupertino headquarters in 1977. Brennan became pregnant with Lisa during this time. Jobs refused to accept responsibility for the pregnancy, prompting Brennan to end the relationship and seek employment cleaning houses. Brennan moved to the All One Farm commune in 1978 to have the baby. Jobs was not present for the baby’s birth and only arrived three days later after being persuaded to do so by Robert Friedland, the farm’s owner and a Reed College friend of Jobs’.
Brennan and Jobs named the child Lisa, and Jobs publicly denied fathering the child. He claimed that the Apple Lisa was not named after her, and that his team devised the phrase “Local Integrated System Architecture” as an alternative explanation for the project’s name.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Education
She went to Lick Wilmerding High School and The Nueva School. She later attended Palo Alto High School after moving in with her father. In 1996, she enrolled at Harvard University and spent a year abroad at King’s College London. She wrote for The Harvard Crimson while a student at Harvard. She graduated in 2000 and moved to New York to work as a writer. She has contributed to The Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Harvard Advocate, Spiked, Vogue, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $50 Million.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Book
Brennan published Small Fry, a memoir about her childhood and the complicated and sometimes difficult relationship she had with her father, in 2018.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Paternity
Jobs publicly denied paternity after Lisa was born, resulting in a legal battle. He maintained his position even after a DNA paternity test proved he was her father. The legal case required him to pay Brennan $385 per month and reimburse the state for the money she had received from welfare. After Apple went public and Jobs became a multimillionaire, he raised the monthly payment to $500. Michael Moritz conducted interviews with Jobs, Brennan, and others for the 1982 Time Person of the Year special issue, which was published on January 3, 1983. Jobs questioned the reliability of the paternity test, which found that the “probability of paternity for Jobs, Steven… is 94.1%” in his interview.
Jobs responded by arguing that “28% of the male population of the United States could be the father”. The issue was titled “Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves In,” rather than “Person of the Year,” as he and many others expected while giving the interviews. Moritz’s thematic shift occurred after learning about Brennan-Jobs and Jobs’ management style.
Years later, after leaving Apple, Jobs acknowledged Lisa and attempted reconciliation with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that “he apologized many times over for his behavior” to her and Lisa and “said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry”. Lisa, nine, wanted to change her last name after reconciling with her, and Jobs was happy and relieved to agree. Jobs legally changed her name from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs on her birth certificate. Brennan attributes Jobs’ transformation to the influence of Brennan-Jobs’ newly discovered biological aunt, author Mona Simpson, who worked to repair Brennan-Jobs’ relationship with her father.
Nonetheless, despite Jobs and Lisa’s reconciliation, their relationship remained strained. Lisa recounted numerous instances of Jobs failing to be an appropriate parent in her autobiography. He remained mostly distant, cold, and made her feel unwanted, even refusing to pay her college fees at first.
Did Lisa Brennan inherit anything from Jobs? – Inheritance
According to Fortune magazine, Jobs left Lisa a multi-million dollar inheritance in his will.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs Career
Brennan-Jobs has appeared in several biographies of her father, including Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography Steve Jobs, published in 2011. Mona Simpson’s 1996 novel A Regular Guy is a fictionalized account of Brennan-Jobs and her parents’ lives. She has been portrayed in three biopic films: Brooke Radding in the 1999 TNT TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley, Ava Acres as a child, and Annika Bertea as an adult in the 2013 film Jobs.
Brennan-Jobs is portrayed at various ages in Danny Boyle’s 2015 film Steve Jobs by Perla Haney-Jardine, Ripley Sobo, and Makenzie Moss. Steve Jobs screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said that he discussed the screenplay with Brennan-Jobs in advance and that she is the “heroine of the film”.