Everyone know Steve Jobs as the genius behind the iPhone, but to his daughter, the Apple founder was “mean”, “awkward” and even simulated sex acts in front of her.
Seven years after his death, Lisa Brennan-Jobs has offered a biting take on her life with the Apple guru, revealing some disturbing moments which soured the pair’s strained relationship. In her upcoming memoir, Small Fry, Lisa tells of her father’s inappropriate behaviour towards her stepmother, businesswoman Laurene Powell Jobs, in front of her. An excerpt reveals that Lisa still remembers one day when Jobs embraced his second wife, “pulling her in to a kiss, moving his hand closer to her breasts,” and up her thigh, “moaning theatrically.”
When his daughter went to leave the room, Jobs stopped her. “‘Hey Lis,’ he said. ‘Stay here. We’re having a family moment. It’s important that you try to be part of this family.’” Lisa writes: “I sat still, looking away as he moaned and undulated.” According to Lisa, Jobs was never threatening – just “awkward”. But her mother, Chrisann Brennan, had previously written about an upsetting, sexual conversation between Jobs and his daughter in her own memoir, The Bite In The Apple.
She writes that, one evening, she left Jobs to babysit nine-year-old Lisa, but she came home early to find him “teasing her nonstop about her sexual aspirations.” A concerned Chrisann writes that he was: “ridiculing her with sexual innuendos,” and “joking about bedroom antics between Lisa and this or that guy.” Chrisann says that she was scared for her daughter, but adds: “I will be clear, Steve was not a sexual predator of children. There was something else going on. He was so inappropriate because he didn’t know how to do better.” Even so, after that she started making sure there was a “chaperone” when Jobs was with Lisa for long hours, according to media reports.
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