Abdulfattah John Jandali is the biological father of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.



Jobs just resigned his post as CEO of the company due to tragic health circumstances.

The two have never met. Jandali has sent Jobs emails on his birthdays.

Says Jandali: “I just would like to get to know this amazing man I helped in a very small way to produce.”

Jandali is 80 years old and still works as a vice president at a Reno casino. He doesn’t plan on retiring.

TheStar.com explains why he was not able to raise Jobs as his own:

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. They wanted to marry, but Simpson’s father wouldn’t let her marry a Syrian immigrant, Jandali said. Simpson left and when their son was born in 1955, she gave him up for adoption. A few months later her father died and she married Jandali.

“If we had just held off for a few months, then we would have been able to raise Steve as our own, but sadly, that was not the case,” Jandali said. “We often spoke of our son and how we both wished he was with us, especially when Joanne gave birth to Steve’s sister, Mona. But nothing to do with Joanne and I was ever meant to be.”

Jandali said he loved Simpson deeply. But after moving to Syria, the couple split up and Simpson returned to the United States with Mona. Joanne remarried and her daughter took her new husband’s name.

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