Move over Kaia Geber, Lila Moss and Iris Law. The newest nepotism baby on the block: Eve Jobs – the daughter of late Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Yesterday, the 23-year-old - the youngest of the billionaire’s four children - announced that she had signed with A-list agency DNA Model management.
She posted the news on Instagram, sharing a moody polaroid portrait of herself with her 262,000 Instagram followers - including unofficial mentor Naomi Campbell and Bill Gates’ eldest daughter Jennifer Gates, who commented with a heart emoji.
The agency, which also represents the New York Times best selling author Emily Ratajkowski, confirmed the news, saying it was “thrilled” to add Jobs to its star-studded books.
“The young Californian is an accomplished equestrian and Stanford graduate, and we are very excited to help her launch her auspicious modelling career,” it said in a statement, a sure sign that Jobs’ career is set to explode.
Indeed, the Gen-Z Ivy League graduate has all the hallmarks of an It-girl-in-waiting. Her Instagram is a mosaic of model shots, mirror selfies at glamorous events and jet-set snaps from Paris to Florence and on the family’s private yacht. The day before her big announcement, she was spotted on the front row at Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2022 show alongside A-listers including Emma Stone, Gemma Chan and Emma Chamberlain.
This was far from Jobs’ first time on the catwalk circuit. Last December, she made her Paris Fashion Week debut in Coperini’s Spring/Summer 2022 show, sporting a neon green spandex T-shirt, a black crystal bedazzled skirt, white sunglasses and an Origami bag, which the show notes say was “inspired by the curving shape of the iPhone photo app icon” in an obvious nod to her late father.
Around the same time, Jobs also starred in millennial makeup brand Glossier’s Christmas campaign alongside Euphoria star Sydney Sweeny and RuPaul’s Naomi Smalls. So how did the 23-year-old first get noticed and will she be following in her father’s famous footsteps?
If her CV so far is anything to go by, it would certainly seem so. Like her pal Jennifer Gates, Jobs is a keen horse-rider, first sitting in the saddle at the age of two and beginning her professional training when she was just six-years-old.
She went on to rank at number five out of 1,000 global contenders in Horse Sports’ under 25 age category, and has competed alongside Gates and other famous equestrians including Mary-Kate Olsen and Jessica Springsteen.
Today, she trains in a private £11 million 3.5-acre ranch, complete with an air-conditioned barn big enough for 20 horses and a show-jumping rink in winter horse riding capital Wellington, Florida. A developer who sold the property said her mother, the businesswoman Laurene Powell, bought the ranch it in 2016 to help Jobs with her show-jumping career – noting it was conspicuously round the corner from Jennifer Gates’ estate.
But despite her her family’s $21.7 billion wealth following Steve Jobs’ death from pancreatic cancer in 2011, her mother Powell - currently the 35th richest person in the world - is keen for Eve and her siblings to forge their own careers rather than relying on inheritance.
According to an interview with New York Times, she has no intention of passing along the family’s wealth. “I’m not interested in legacy wealth buildings, and my children know that,” she said. “Steve wasn’t interested in that. If I live long enough, it ends with me.”
Powell’s youngest daughter recently graduated from Stanford, the university where where her parents met in October 1989 (her mother Powell reportedly arrived late for one of her father’s presentations and ended up sitting on the front row, catching his eye). And she’s not the only member of the Jobs clan to boast a promising career.
Her half-sister Lisa, 43, (from Jobs’ previous relationship with a woman called Christann Brennan) is a Harvard-graduate who’s written for Vogue and The Oprah Magazine, while brother Reed, 30, is an rising politician and cancer researcher; and sister Erin, 26, is an aspiring architect.
With a high-profile modelling career on the horizon, will Eve Jobs end up the wealthiest and most successful of all her siblings? Watch this space.
