Steve Jobs' daughter reveals her father said she 'smelled like a toilet' as he lay dying and told her 'you're getting nothing'

Apple founder Steve Jobs publicly denied he was the father of his daughter for years
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Chloe Chaplain3 August 2018

Apple founder Steve Jobs told his daughter she "smelled like a toilet” as he lay dying and said she would get “nothing” from him.

The billionaire was “sour” with her and spoke to her in a “biting way” when she visited him on his death bed, new memoirs have revealed.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs has revealed details about her strained relationship with her late father in her new book Small Fry.

The 40-year-old said she had visited her father every other month before he died of pancreatic cancer in 2011, aged 56, which is when he made the degrading comments.

The pair had a tricky relationship after Jobs left Chrisann Brennan when she fell pregnant with Lisa aged 23.

He then publicly denied he was her father until a judge ordered him to complete a paternity test and pay child maintenance.

But Ms Brennan-Jobs said that even after then he was distant and curt with her.

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In one memory she recollected how she had heard that her father got a new Porsche whenever he scratched his, so she asked him if she could have her car when he was done with it.

Lisa said he replied: “‘You’re not getting anything. You understand? Nothing. You’re getting nothing."

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