Amrutha Gayathri

The death of Apple's visionary Steve Jobs has turned the spotlight to the lesser-known facets of his personal life with his wife and four children.

The respect that Steve Jobs commanded didn't stem exclusively from his corporate position as the co-founder of Apple and a visionary CEO. A man of diverse interests, hailed as a revolutionary, Jobs strictly kept his personal life to himself. However, he always stood by what he believed in and wouldn't care much about his public-perceived image. Here are some little known facts about Jobs, whose personal life was marked by experiments with the obscure.

Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson, who wrote Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, fictionalized her brother as a barely disguised character in the novel A Regular Guy.

The death of Steve Jobs was unexpected, although almost everyone was aware that he was fighting a rare and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. However, his death has turned the spotlight on the early life and career of a man being hailed as a visionary.

If Steve Jobs ever had a competitor, that was Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Hailed as visionaries, Jobs and Gates framed the A to Z of personal computing while competing for domination of the tech world.

California-based technology giant Apple Inc. has apparently decided against disclosing the reason behind Steve Jobs' death, at the rather early age of 56. However, it was no secret that Jobs had been battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer, from about 2004; the year in which he underwent surgery for the same.

Abdulfattah John Jandali -- Steve Jobs' biological father -- had no comment Wednesday on the untimely death of his world-famous son, with whom he had no relationship.

A party promoter claims to have arranged girls for Ashton Kutcher's wild party, held on the night of his sixth wedding anniversary, after which his rumored hookup with Leal took place.

Fans who haven't heard from the Bluth family of Arrested Development - an American sit-com - fame since 2006, will not have to wait much longer. The producers of the critically-acclaimed series, which was created by Mitchell Hurwitz, have announced that the show will return with a mini-season in the early part of 2013, consisting of nine or ten episodes, to be followed by a full-length feature film.

Michael Jackson feared he would be shot dead on stage during his scheduled comeback performance in London and planned to wear a bulletproof vest for the This Is It concerts, his British security chief asserts.

Jazz and pop recording artist Tony Bennett said Amy Winehouse knew her alcohol addiction was going to kill her, even though other people didn't realize it.

The doctor who pronounced Michael Jackson dead, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center testified Friday, at a Los Angeles court, that he was clinically dead on arrival. Dr. Richelle Cooper, the 13th and last witness for the first week of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's physician Dr. Conrad Murray, said Jackson didn't have a pulse when he arrived.

Hollywood waistlines appear to be thinning, with some cases causing alarm. Though the super skinny celebrities hardly admit that they suffer from any eating disorders, it is almost unbelievable that they could lose so many pounds in a matter of months.

Coffee enthusiasts have reasons to be happy not only on the National Coffee Day -- Sept. 29 -- but for the entire week following the day. While most coffee chains are sticking to giving away free coffees only on Thursday, some have extended the free deals upto Oct. 5.

Sara Leal has gone into hiding and has almost entirely deleted her online existence.

Bob Dylan's paintings exhibited at a New York art gallery have drawn criticism for similarities to several well-known photographs.

Rumor mills have been churning trying to figure out what went wrong in the six year marriage between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, who are speculated to have been quietly separated for a number of months now.

Michael Jackson's childhood friend and television host Kathy Hilton has said that the audio recording played on the opening day of the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was suspicious.

Bristol Palin's former fiancé Levi Johnston says the thought of Sarah Palin becoming the U.S. president frightens him. 'President Palin' is a phrase that scares me, Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's son, Tripp and the author of the book, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, said in an interview with In Touch Weekly.

Brad Pitt is still trying to make up for a disastrous interview with Parade magazine in which he seemed to scorn his marriage to Jennifer Aniston.

Michael Jackson's eldest son Prince Michael, who is an eyewitness to the death of his father, doesn't want to testify but has told his family that he will do what needs to be done to get justice for his dad.

Michael Jackson was beleaguered by the pressures of his comeback tour, which forced him to take a desperate action leading to his death, a Los Angeles court was told on the first day of his doctor's homicide trial.

As the prosecutors played an incredibly sad tape of Michael Jackson's voice, recorded just weeks before his death, coupled with a photo of his lifeless body, the spectators in the Los Angeles court room looked pained.

It has only been a few days since the tattooed couple Kat Von D and Jesse James announced their breakup. I am not in a relationship, Kat Von D wrote on her Facebook page Saturday, when it has hardly been a month since they announced their getting back together after calling off their engagement in July.

Timeless beauty Demi Moore has sparked a discussion about her extreme body obsession, and recent weight loss, which seems to be killing her famous curves.

She is a celebrity daughter and has been in the spotlight ever since she was two. Nevertheless, Lily Collins, daughter of British musician Phil Collins, finds it a tad too weird when people call out her name on the red carpet.

An openly lesbian actress and musician, Leisha Hailey, 40, was escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight Monday for kissing her girlfriend.

Women drivers, long victims of sexist stereotypes, really are worse at parking than men, European studies indicate.

The nine-disc set of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray has become a chartbuster of all times in just its first week of release, breaking global sales records.