Steve Jobs and His Dad -- and Other Estrangements

These family members stayed apart from each other – sometimes temporarily and sometimes forever.

By: Karen Springen

October 12, 2011

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Famous estrangement: Steve Jobs and his biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali

Steve Jobs – raised by his adoptive parents – died without ever seeing his biological dad. In a Wall Street Journal story, University of Wisconsin political science PhD-turned-casino manager Abdulfattah Jandali says he never met or talked to his son but did send him a few simple emails in the past year. (The Journal says he only learned about six years ago that the Apple chief was his son.) Here Jobs announces the iPhone 3G in 2008.

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