He subsequently worked as a manager at various companies and organizations in Las Vegas, and opened two more restaurants in Reno. He married twice more, including former hospice nurse Roscille Colburn-Jandali, but did not have any more children.
Following his divorce from Schieble, Jandali lost connection with his daughter Mona when she was only four. He did not contact his ex-wife after returning to America as she was already married to an ice-skating teacher named George Simpson, whose surname his daughter took. However, he and Joanne got back in touch about 10 years later when she was raising Mona as a single mother after divorcing her second husband in Unfortunately, they again lost contact after she moved without letting him know.
About a decade had passed before his daughter, now an adult, tracked him down in Sacramento, California. By this time, she had also met her long-lost biological brother Steve Jobs, but the latter, who believed that Jandali did not treat his children well, refused to meet him or reveal his identity to him.
Despite Abdulfattah Jandali never being there for his son, the two shared striking similarities both in appearance and in character. At a glance, one could easily trace their receding hairlines in exactly same places and the fact that they both wore rimless glasses. Furthermore, they both shared the same passion for their work and became successful executives, although Jandali at a much smaller scale than his enormously famous son.
On a deeper level, Jobs had a life parallel to that of a younger Jandali. As a college student, Steve Jobs also had a child out of wedlock, daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, with budding painter Chris-Ann Brennan, and went as far as to claim that he was sterile to deny paternity.
One remarkable difference between Abdulfattah Jandali Jandali and his son Jobs was that the latter was plagued by ill-health, largely due to his long battle with pancreatic cancer. In contrast, Jandali, always an early riser, worked out in the gym regularly before driving to his work at the casino six days a week.
Mr Jandali only learned that Mr Jobs was his son one year later in Mr Jandali said in the past year he wrote a few simple emails to Mr Jobs such as 'Happy birthday' and 'I hope your health is improving. He received he received two short supplies. The last one came six weeks before Mr Jobs died.
It just said 'Thank you. Mr Jandali said: 'It was not a shock. Basically all you feel is sadness. 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.
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