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Before she wrote a memoir or inherited millions, Lisa Brennan-Jobs was just a 9-year-old hoping her father, Steve Jobs, might one day give her his old Porsche. Instead, he snapped: “You're getting nothing.” In her 2018 memoir Small Fry, Lisa recounts this moment not for the car, but for what it revealed — the emotional distance and pain in her relationship with her father. Jobs had denied paternity when she was born in 1978, and only began paying minimal child support after a court-ordered DNA test. Lisa was raised by her mother, Chrisann Brennan, often on welfare. Though Jobs eventually offered more financial support — cars, tuition, a $400,000 home — Lisa said it was always a struggle: “He was cheap as he could be.” Even at Harvard, he refused to pay for her senior year; friends covered it, and Jobs reimbursed them later. After his death in 2011, Lisa received a multimillion-dollar inheritance, though most of his $10.8 billion fortune went to his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, who said s...

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