{"id":4426,"date":"2026-11-14T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:03:51","slug":"ex-nvidia-ceo-misled-lawyers-over-affair-with-chinese-businesswoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nvidia CEO misled lawyers over affair with Chinese businesswoman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several \u200bof the company\u2019s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with \u200cChinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reuters reviewed several exchanges from October on condition of not quoting verbatim from the messages. The news agency is the first to report on this correspondence.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO,<\/a> a spectacular fall from the chip industry\u2019s heights \u200bwhere he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

He apologised in a statement on Sunday for being \u200bunfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company.<\/p>\n

His statement did not specifically name Alice Huang, a former top executive \u2060of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the US was investigating<\/a> for potentially spying for China.<\/p>\n

Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not \u200brelated.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> earlier this week reported Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported<\/a> on Thursday that Huang had another intimate \u200brelationship with a different Nvidia employee.<\/p>\n

Teter did not respond to a request for comment. Wagonfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

A representative for ex-CEO Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n

A phone call and email to contact information listed on a business card for Alice Huang went unanswered.<\/p>\n

During the autumn of 2025 and in October \u200b2026, in response to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders\u2019 attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice Huang<\/a>, Huang at both times described their interactions \u200bas appropriate, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Reuters only reviewed messages from the exchanges in October, not the ones from 2025.<\/p>\n

In two separate messages in October, \u200cHuang told \u2060Nvidia leaders, including Teter and Wagonfeld, that the interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers.<\/p>\n

In other messages, Huang affirmed the routine nature of his interactions with Megaspeed.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s Huang also discussed taking legal action against the New York Times<\/em> after it published an article in October of last year that drew attention<\/a> to his meetings in public with Alice Huang, the people said.<\/p>\n

That article had prompted Jensen Huang to communicate with some Nvidia leaders in 2025 about their interactions, which he did \u200bnot describe as an affair, the \u200bpeople said.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, neither Nvidia nor \u2060Huang filed a lawsuit against the paper. A spokesperson for the New York Times<\/em> said the paper received no legal demand.<\/p>\n

It is unclear when his relationship with Alice Huang became intimate. Photos posted online and verified by Reuters show them \u200btogether in the US, China and elsewhere, dating as far back as December 2023.<\/p>\n

On November 10, the independent members \u200bof Nvidia\u2019s board said \u2060they hired Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an independent investigation after the New York Times<\/em> and Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported on Huang\u2019s relations with Alice Huang, as well as US authorities\u2019 suspicions that she was spying for China. Beijing has denied she is a spy.<\/p>\n

Reuters has not independently verified whether Alice Huang \u2060was working \u200bon behalf of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

Jensen Huang said in an interview with Bloomberg published on October \u200b29 that the US government had not informed him about its suspicions regarding Alice Huang.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s stock has fallen more than 30% since its October 6 closing high, erasing more than $1.8 trillion from its \u200bmarket capitalisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several \u200bof the company\u2019s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with \u200cChinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters. Reuters reviewed several exchanges from October on condition of not quoting verbatim from the messages. The news agency is the first to report on this correspondence. On Thursday, Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}