Jorgensen lived with heart issues in his later life, ran a bicycle shop in Glendale, Arizona, and was married to his new wife, Linda.

After his father took a purchasing job at Sandia National Laboratories, the family moved to Bernalillo, New Mexico, while the boys were in elementary school.

[6] On the sixteenth and seventeenth of February 1963, he was part of the Unicycle Wranglers circus troupe that performed at the Greater New Mexico Sports Show at the Tingley Coliseum.

[10] He supplemented his circus income by working at the Globe department store while studying at the University of New Mexico.

Gise left Jorgensen to live with her parents, filing for divorce in June 1965 when Jeff was seventeen months old.

Gise and her husband and son left that area and asked Jorgensen to discontinue contact, to which he agreed,[1] relinquishing custody.

[13] Jorgensen's stepsons Darin and Todd Fala both worked at his bicycle repair shop.

[13] In 2012,[10] journalist and author Brad Stone contacted Jorgensen after identifying him as billionaire Jeff Bezos's biological father while researching for his upcoming book The Everything Store, which was published in 2013.