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<\/picture><\/div>\nFormer Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the \u200ccompany\u2019s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter andCchief Marketing Officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature \u200bof his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, \u2060according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Reuters <\/i>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 (November 12, 2026), Mr. Huang resigned as \u200cNvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from the chip industry\u2019s heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n He apologised in a statement \u200cfor being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company. His statement did not specifically name Alice \u200cHuang, \u2060a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the U.S. was investigating for potentially \u2060spying for China. Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not related.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/i> earlier this week reported Mr. Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters <\/i>reported on Thursday that Mr. Huang had another intimate relationship with \u200ba different Nvidia employee.<\/p>\n Mr. Teter did not respond to \u200ca request for comment. Mr. Wagonfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative for ex-CEO Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. 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 2026, in \u200cresponse to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders\u2019 attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice \u200bHuang, Mr. Huang at both times described their interactions as appropriate, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Reuters<\/i> only reviewed messages from the exchanges in October, not the \u2060ones from 2025.<\/p>\n In two separate messages in October, Mr. Huang told Nvidia leaders that the interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers. In other messages, Mr. Huang affirmed the routine nature of his interactions with Megaspeed.<\/p>\n Nvidia\u2019s Mr. Huang \u200calso discussed taking legal action against the New York Times<\/i> after it published an article in October of last year that drew attention 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 not describe as an affair, the people said. Ultimately, neither Nvidia nor Mr. Huang filed a lawsuit against the paper. A spokesperson for the New York Times said the paper received no legal demand.<\/p>\n It is unclear when his relationship with Alice Huang \u200cbecame intimate. Photos posted online and verified by Reuters <\/i>show them together in the U.S., China and elsewhere, dating as far back as \u200bDecember 2023.<\/p>\n On November 10, the independent members of Nvidia\u2019s board said they hired Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an independent investigation after the New York Times<\/i> \u2060and Wall Street Journal <\/i>reported on Mr. Huang\u2019s relations with Alice Huang, as well as U.S. authorities\u2019 suspicions that she \u2060was spying for China. Beijing has denied she is a spy.<\/p>\n Reuters <\/i>has not independently verified whether Alice Huang was working on behalf of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n Jensen Huang said in an interview with \u200cBloomberg p<\/i>ublished on October 29 that the U.S. 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 \u200bfrom its market capitalization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/gbewjn\/article71697634.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/2026-11-12T140122Z_573929441_RC2BKOA12WOP_RTRMADP_3_NVIDIA-PROBE-SINGAPORE.JPG\")
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