“More than three years after Steve Jobs passed away, it seems that his widow Laurene Powell has found love again,” Lydia Warren reports for The Daily Mail. “The 51-year-old billionaire business exec was seen enjoying a Caribbean vacation with former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, 44, this weekend. The pair looked at ease as they laughed together aboard a luxury yacht from the Cayman Islands, cooled off in their swimsuits and got close on the sun loungers, before sharing a meal with friends. The couple was first rumored to be dating in the summer of 2013 but these are among the first photos of their budding romance.”
“Powell was left widowed after Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away, aged 56, from complications from pancreatic cancer in October 2011. They had three children together and Powell is also step-mother to Jobs’ daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs,” Warren reports. “Fenty, mayor of Washington D.C. between 2007 and 2011, formally announced his separation from his wife of 15 years, Michelle, in January 2013. They also have three children together.”
“Sources told the Washington Post that summer that Fenty and Powell started seeing each other around the same time, but there is no suggestion that Powell had anything to do with the separation,” Warren reports. “It is believed the two met at a Houston education conference in 2011 and bonded over school reform; Powell is the founder of Emerson Collective, which advocates for education reform, among others, while Fenty’s focus during his mayorship with education. The following year, Fenty joined the board of College Track, a non-profit program for underserved students wanting to go to college that was co-founded by Powell.”
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Emily Heil reports for The Washington Post, “Fenty was dating Powell Jobs in August 2013, and we last caught sight of the power duo when they appeared together at the French Open in Paris back in June.”
“With a jet-setting lifestyle like that, we can only imagine the former Hizzonor, now a consultant to various education-tech companies, doesn’t miss the grind of city council meetings,” Heil reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Tyu” and other readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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leave that woman alone, it’s nobody’s business but hers.
Perhaps the only time I agree completely with botvinnik. What does this have to do with Apple news? Should she spend the rest of her life dressed in black like Queen Victoria?
yeah, this kinda National Enquirer crap reminds me of the telephoto pics of Jackie Kennedy back when she was beginning a new life. the vows read “till death us do part.”
I hate this kinda shit.
Agreed, her business and privacy is hers. But the fact that you clicked, read, and commented proves that it’s of interest to Apple geeks.
Same. Botvinnik and I may never agree on anything again, but on this … this sort of tabloid shit has no business being printed, let alone being treated as news by Apple sites.
She was married to Steve, ’til death did they part. She has every right to move on, and every right to do so with respect to her PRIVACY. Exploiting her as clickbait is disrespectful, both to Steve’s memory and (more importantly) to her as an individual.
Agreed.
Like ottawamark, I agree with botvinnik (one of those rare time all the factions on MDN seem to be in agreement). Let Jobs’ widow alone. She deserves to have a life, along with her billions.
Besides, they both look pretty hot in their swimsuits, and it’s not like either one is robbing the cradle…
must be rough when your billionaire spousedies and leaves you everything. if only we could all be so lucky
yeah, standing by watching the person you love die from pancreatic cancer is “lucky.” Fsck you.
Well said.
Asshole.
If everybody would be billionaire, than money wouldn’t worth anything anymore. Money’s value is based on the law of supply and demand. The richness needs poverty to exist.
Good for her!
I would be so happy if MDN would follow the high road and adopt a policy of not posting anything about Laurene Jobs unless it is directly related to Apple, Disney, or another business in which Steve had an interest (and that does NOT include pictures of her on his yacht).
Firstly, this is unrelated to Apple. Secondly, posting photos like this is scum journalism. Such a shame MDN feels the need to stoop to this level.
Rush Limbaugh- guest editor? Again?…
Somehow I don’t think this would get any news coverage at all if it was about a man who had lost his wife and then got a new girlfriend.
If that wife had been a visionary genius who during her life profoundly changed the world, then the man would likely have received similar attention.
For example, if Margaret Thacher had died while PM of UK, or shortly after that, and three years later Dennis Thacher got himself a girlfriend, the volume of UK tabloid press coverage would have been ten times what we’re now seeing of Lauren Jobs.
No. He would not have.
Actually, yes he would have, especially if it were to happen in today’s tabloid age. If you truly don’t believe it, you are probably new to this planet.
You really don’t understand the UK tabloids to post that. Women having new love interests are a big deal to the red tops, men not so much. He’d only get a mention if he went completely off the rails and slept with several women a week for quite some time.
So MDN is now no better than low life rags such as National Enquirer?
PATHETIC!
Well, looks like she beat Cook to the spoils. LOL!
You amuse yourself. Why?
Glad she’s able to move on, it’s been a few years since Steve passed. I’m sure he would’ve wanted her to live her life and not lament his passing forever.
I second the sentiment that she be left alone. While it may seem like yesterday, the fact is that it has been several years since Steve died and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone — even the most judgmental A-holes — who would question if “enough time” has passed for her to move on.
Isn’t she now the largest shareholder of Apple stock?
Disney.
Disney.
We all seem to be in agreement here. No need or desire for gossip about Laurene Jobs on MDN.
Fenty is the guy who actually made DC schools worse. He left Ms Fenty because she dos not have Billions of dollars. Ms Jobs does.
Aside from that, it is her life.
It’s the Daily Mail, expect nothing less from this racist right wing rag.
This is the same paper that famously defended the Nazi’s before WWII and is infamous in the UK for its hypocrisy and lies.
I once found an old copy of the Daily Mail, put it in my cats litter tray and it shat on the floor. Say no more.
include The Washington Compost with that.
Good one. 🙂
Please delete this article and don’t post any more like it.
Whatever but geez on Steve’s Yacht – in my mind kinda shows “No Class” but it is her life!
The yacht belongs to her now. What exactly is she supposed to do with it? Are you saying that introducing Mr Fenty to the kids would be “no class” because they were Steve’s kids?
I have more shocking news for you … many people who are widowed establish new relationships, and often get married and yet live in the SAME HOME as they did with their former spouse, and sleep in the SAME BED!! Truly shocking!!
Anyway, yes MDN this is of no interest to readers (I came here for the comments) and the Daily Mail is one of the worst sources possible (speaking of “no class”). Don’t be like them.