Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' billionaire widow Laurene Powell Jobs is now one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the United States, with an estimated net worth of more than $14 billion. But her life was not always like this. Years before inheriting one of the world's biggest technology fortunes and travelling aboard the $120 million superyacht Venus, she grew up in a lower-middle-class home in rural New Jersey. The money was so scarce that family holidays were never an option after her father died when she was just three years old.
Today, Laurene Powell, the 62-year-old philanthropist, oversees investments, supports climate initiatives and education reforms through Emerson Collective, and owns some of the world's most exclusive properties.
