The relationship between Jobs and Brennan quickly deteriorated. “Chrisann would get into this kind of victim mode, when she would say that Steve and I were ganging up on her,” Kottke recalled. “Steve would just laugh and not take her seriously.” Brennan was not, as even she later admitted, very emotionally stable. She began breaking plates, throwing things, trashing the house, and writing obscene words in charcoal on the wall. She said that Jobs kept provoking her with his callousness: “He was an enlightened being who was cruel.” Kottke was caught in the middle. “Daniel didn’t have that DNA of ruthlessness, so he was a bit flipped by Steve’s behavior,” according to Brennan. “He would go from ‘Steve’s not treating you right’ to laughing at me with Steve.”

乔布斯和布伦南之间的关系急速恶化。“克里斯安会摆出一副受害者的嘴脸，说史蒂夫和我联合起来对付她，”科特基回忆说，“史蒂夫就会笑笑，并不把她当回事。”布伦南后来也承认，自己当时情绪不是很稳定。她开始摔盘子、扔东西、在家里乱丢垃圾，还用炭笔在墙上写些粗俗的话。她说乔布斯的麻木不仁一直激怒着她。“他是个性格明朗的人，但十分冷酷，真是很奇怪的性格组合。”科特基被夹在了两人中间。“丹尼尔不是个无情的人，他是受到了史蒂夫行为的影响。”布伦南说，“他有时候会对我说：‘史蒂夫对待你的方式不对。’但也会和史蒂夫一起嘲笑我。”

Robert Friedland came to her rescue. “He heard that I was pregnant, and he said to come on up to the farm to have the baby,” she recalled. “So I did.” Elizabeth Holmes and other friends were still living there, and they found an Oregon midwife to help with the delivery. On May 17, 1978, Brennan gave birth to a baby girl. Three days later Jobs flew up to be with them and help name the new baby. The practice on the commune was to give children Eastern spiritual names, but Jobs insisted that she had been born in America and ought to have a name that fit. Brennan agreed. They named her Lisa Nicole Brennan, not giving her the last name Jobs. And then he left to go back to work at Apple. “He didn’t want to have anything to do with her or with me,” said Brennan.

罗伯特·弗里德兰拯救了她。“他听说我怀孕了，就让我立刻到农场去，在那儿把孩子生下来，”她回忆说，“我于是去了。”伊丽莎白·霍姆斯和其他朋友当时还住在农场里，他们找了一个俄勒冈州的助产士来帮她接生。1978年5月17日，布伦南产下了一名女婴。3天之后，乔布斯飞到农场看望他们，顺便帮孩子起名。公社里的惯例是给孩子起一个带有东方精神的名字，但乔布斯认为孩子是在美国出生的，坚持要给她起一个符合美国文化的名字。布伦南也同意这点。他们给她起名丽萨·妮科尔·布伦南（LisaNicoleBrerman），并没有让她随乔布斯的姓。之后乔布斯就返回苹果公司上班去了。布伦南说：“他不想和孩子或者我扯上任何关系。”

She and Lisa moved to a tiny, dilapidated house in back of a home in Menlo Park. They lived on welfare because Brennan did not feel up to suing for child support. Finally, the County of San Mateo sued Jobs to try to prove paternity and get him to take financial responsibility. At first Jobs was determined to fight the case. His lawyers wanted Kottke to testify that he had never seen them in bed together, and they tried to line up evidence that Brennan had been sleeping with other men. “At one point I yelled at Steve on the phone, ‘You know that is not true,’” Brennan recalled. “He was going to drag me through court with a little baby and try to prove I was a whore and that anyone could have been the father of that baby.”

她和丽萨搬到了门洛帕克，住在一户人家后面又小又破的房子里。她们靠政府救济金生活，因为布伦南觉得自己没有能力打官司争取赡养费。最终，圣马特奥县起诉了乔布斯，试图证明他和孩子的亲子关系，并让他承担经济责任。起初，乔布斯下定决心把这场官司打到底。他的律师们想让科特基作证，称自己从未见过他们上床，同时他们还想收集证据，以证明布伦南当时还跟别的男人发生过关系。“我曾经在电话里对史蒂夫吼道：‘你知道那不是真的。’”布伦南回忆，“他想让我带着孩子出现在法庭上，然后证明我是个荡妇，任何人都可能是孩子的父亲。”

A year after Lisa was born, Jobs agreed to take a paternity test. Brennan’s family was surprised, but Jobs knew that Apple would soon be going public and he decided it was best to get the issue resolved. DNA tests were new, and the one that Jobs took was done at UCLA. “I had read about DNA testing, and I was happy to do it to get things settled,” he said. The results were pretty dispositive. “Probability of paternity . . . is 94.41%,” the report read. The California courts ordered Jobs to start paying $385 a month in child support, sign an agreement admitting paternity, and reimburse the county $5,856 in back welfare payments. He was given visitation rights but for a long time didn’t exercise them.

丽萨出生一年之后，乔布斯同意进行亲子鉴定。布伦南一家对此感到很吃惊，但乔布斯知道，苹果公司即将上市，最好在此之前把问题解决。DNA测试在当时还是新鲜事物，乔布斯在加州大学洛杉矶分校进行了测试。“我曾经看到过关于DNA测试的介绍，我很乐意进行测试，把事情弄清楚。”他说。结果是决定性的。报告显“亲子关系的可能性是94.41%。”加州法院判决乔布斯开始支付每月385美元的赡养费，签署协议承认亲子关系，并偿还5856美元的政府救济金。他享有探视权，但很长一段时间内他并没有行使这项杈利。

Even then Jobs continued at times to warp the reality around him. “He finally told us on the board,” Arthur Rock recalled, “but he kept insisting that there was a large probability that he wasn’t the father. He was delusional.” He told a reporter for Time, Michael Moritz, that when you analyzed the statistics, it was clear that “28% of the male population in the United States could be the father.” It was not only a false claim but an odd one. Worse yet, when Chrisann Brennan later heard what he said, she mistakenly thought that Jobs was hyperbolically claiming that she might have slept with 28% of the men in the United States. “He was trying to paint me as a slut or a whore,” she recalled. “He spun the whore image onto me in order to not take responsibility.”

即便法院已经作出了判决，乔布斯有时还是会歪曲事实。“他最后在董事会上把整件事告诉了我们，”亚瑟·罗克回忆道，“但他一直坚称，他不是孩子父亲的概率非常大。他有点儿妄想。”他告诉《时代》杂志的记者迈克尔·莫里茨（MichaelMoritz）,只要分析一下数据，就会发现“全美国28%的男性都有可能是孩子的爸爸”。这种论断不但是错误的，也是荒谬可笑的。更糟糕的是，后来克里斯安·布伦南听说了乔布斯的言论，她误以为乔布斯是在夸张地形容她可能跟全美国28%的男人上过床。“他就是想把我描绘成一个荡妇，”她回忆说，“他在我身上打上荡妇的烙印，这样他就不用负责任了。”

Years later Jobs was remorseful for the way he behaved, one of the few times in his life he admitted as much:

多年以后，乔布斯对自己当时的表现十分懊悔，平生罕见地承认了如下事实：