Steve Jobs swore he was sterile to avoid paying for his daughter, lost on a blood test, and later left her millions

Lisa Nicole Brennan was born on 17 May 1978 at a commune outside Portland, Oregon, to Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs. Jobs denied he was her father for more than two years. In a signed court document he said he was "sterile and infertile." A lawsuit forced a paternity test, which gave a 94.1 percent probability that he was the father. The court ordered him to pay $385 a month and to reimburse the state for welfare paid to mother and child. Apple went public in December 1980, and Jobs raised the payment to $500. In a January 1983 Time interview he still questioned the test, saying "28% of the male population of the United States could be the father." Apple's Lisa computer, launched that year, carried her name; Jobs later admitted it was named for her. After he left Apple in 1985 he reconciled with her. At nine she took the name Brennan-Jobs, and he had her birth certificate changed. She lived with his family during high school and was at his bedside when he died in 2011. Fortune reported that his will left her a multi-million-dollar inheritance. She described her childhood in the memoir Small Fry in 2018.