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and although she will promote some worthy liberal cause or other on Twitter, she hides her charity donations by setting up her main philanthropic organisation as a private company so it doesn’t have to report its finances publicly.

However, she’s been unable to hide when cruising the world in Venus — the $100 million, 256ft yacht her husband designed, but never lived to enjoy. Paparazzi shots of her on board revealed she has a boyfriend, Adrian Fenty, an ex-mayor of Washington DC who is seven years her junior.

In his will, Jobs left nothing to his former lover Chrisann Brennan, although he gave a ‘multi-milliondollar’ settlement (the precise figure is unclear) to their daughter Lisa.

In a move that would hardly have endeared her to his grieving widow, Chrisann wrote an essay in Rolling Stone magazine, within days of Jobs’ death, in which she described the ‘alltoo-often despotic jerk Steve turned into as he rose to meet the world’.

With her daughter Lisa now firing off a new broadside against the tech king, it seems the toxic family legacy of Steve Jobs’s early life will continue to cast a shadow over his trilliondollar Apple behemoth.