The year-old works as the general manager of the Boomtown casino outside Reno, Nevada, where he has a staff of around workers. Devastated: Steve Jobs' father Abdulfattah Jandali looks deep in thought.
The estrangement with his two children has caused him much sadness in the last few years. He certainly shares a physical resemblance to the man who co-founded Apple Inc. But for Mr Jandali the only connection with his son is his story of the emails and the iPhone 4 that he owns. I guess because I felt bad when I heard about the health situation. He said that after hearing of Mr Jobs's death, he watched online videos of the Apple chief's famous keynote speeches launching new products.
He also watched Mr Jobs's famous Stanford University in in which he spoke about his personal life. While Mr Jobs spoke of his biological mother and sister, he never mentioned Mr Jandali.
MailOnline revealed in August that in the months leading up to Steve Jobs's death, Mr Jandali became overcome with guilt for abandoning his son. But he admitted that after all this time he was too proud to make the first move to arrange a meeting.
Mr Jandali, a Syrian immigrant, said he did not call Mr Jobs for fear he would wrongly think he was after his money. He said at the time: 'This might sound strange, though, but I am not prepared, even if either of us was on our deathbeds, to pick up the phone to call him. Mr Jandali said that it was 56 years ago that his girlfriend Joanne Simpson fell pregnant and he was forbidden from marrying her.
Without telling him she left their home in Wisconsin and went to San Francisco where she had the baby and gave it up for adoption. Mr Jandali said that even though he thought of himself as a 'computer dunce' he owns a Mac computer, iPhone and an iPad.
He said: 'I honestly look at these things and cannot believe Steve created them. Steve Jobs was a genius. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Be the first to comment Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Legitimation: Your consent Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
I want to receive the newsletter. Jandali and his girlfriend, Joanne Carole Schieble later Simpson , met at the University of Wisconsin, where he was a professor and she was a student, according to previous press reports.
Simpson left and when their son was born in , she gave him up for adoption. A few months later her father died and she married Jandali. But nothing to do with Joanne and I was ever meant to be. Jandali said he loved Simpson deeply. For you. Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.
All rights reserved. To order copies of Toronto Star articles, please go to: www. Like his son, Jandali is a workaholic. He is And he would love to see Jobs before one of them dies.
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