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Steve Jobs, the man who named a computer after the daughter he denied for years was his?
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True, but we’re talking about him being manipulated by intelligence or a gold-digger, then betrayed. His relationship troubles with Chrisann Brennan happened before he got famous, and it doesn’t seem like she manipulated him, rather his obsession with work and rudeness put her off (which is the opposite of “thinking with his dick” too). Then he had a seemingly-healthy relationship for over 20 years.
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Having Steve Jobs on your list makes me retroactively suspicious of every other name on the list
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https://www.ranker.com/list/steve-jobs-loves-and-hookups/cel...

This doesn’t read “groomed by intelligence agencies” to me. He had relationship troubles, but they were before Apple blew up. He met Laurene Powell in 1989 and they stayed together until his death in 2011.

I also don’t think it’s an excuse that he was particularly attractive, since plenty of other men on this list are less so. Buffet married a 60-year old woman in his 70s, if he cared about looks he could’ve dated a 20-year old.

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I'll give you Jobs, now that he's passed away and we have a lot of the dirt on him. But everyone else, we really don't know about.

Also, (just kind of pointing this out as a relevant factor, not really trying to insult the others), but Steve Jobs is tall and good looking. The guy would have gotten plenty of women with just a guitar and not a nickel to his name. I'm thinking Musk and Gates were very likely not in that league as far as raw attractiveness.

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Just because actual desk toy Bill Gates didn't make the cover of Rolling Stone or even Teen Beat shouldn't detract from his ..

.. whatever this is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/teen-beat/

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I can give more examples. Past US presidents. Joe Biden? Barack Obama? Either George Bush? Ronald Reagan? Jimmy Carter?

6 of 8. And they’re politicians, so if they had any embarrassing martial info we’d surely know about it.

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Ronald Reagan did have a bit of old school 1950s era scandal about him - a twice married Hollywood actor type whose kids from the second marriage didn't even know they had brothers and sisters from another mother until their early teens(? not sure on timing).

Small beer stuff today, titillating gossip for some.

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