Steve Jobs Family

Steve Jobs Family



Steve Jobs Family



Steve Jobs Family



Steve Jobs Family



Steve Jobs Family


After Resignation, Details Emerge On Steve Jobs’ Birth Family

Steve Jobs Family


Steve Jobs Family

Since the news of Steve Jobs’ surprising resignation from Apple, there’s been a notable and understandable increased interest in the former CEO’s life. Having been in the spotlight for so long, we already knew a fair bit about the CEO — but now, we’re learning the surprising details about his birth family.

The New York Post kicked off the prying by tracking down Jobs’ biological father, Abdulfattah John Jandali (bottom right). Here’s the rundown: the 80-year-old explained that his then-girlfriend gave birth to Jobs in 1955, but her father wouldn’t allow her to marry a Syrian man, prompting the couple to give up Jobs for adoption. Her father died shortly thereafter, and the two married. Jandali, by the way, is vice president of a casino in Reno, Nevada. He has a Mac, iPhone and iPad. He’s used those devices to email Jobs a few times, but hasn’t ever spoken to him. And as the Post‘s reporter notes, “Both wear rimless glasses, both have grey hair receding in exactly the same place, and both have the same handsome swarthy features.”

The media fascination with Jobs’ birth family doesn’t end there. ABC News, picking up on the story, notes that Mona Simpson (bottom left), a famous novelist, is Jobs’ birth sister. Jandali married Jobs’ mother by the time Simpson was born, so she was raised by the couple. Jobs and Simpson met as adults — and Simpson wrote a book about the experience.

And finally, there’s the bit about another family Jobs speaks little of. Seemingly unbeknownst to many, Jobs fathered a child with his high school girlfriend, a fact he apparently denied for many years.

While none of the details were exactly a secret before, they’re slowly surfacing in the wake of Jobs’ resignation. Does this all come off as an bit too Jerry Springer/Maury-ish to you, or is it a compelling part of Jobs’ story?