Ex-Nvidia CEO misled top lawyer on affair with Chinese businesswoman, sources say
“Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company's leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Ch…”
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 the chip industry's heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.
He apologized in a statement on Sunday for being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company. His statement did not specifically name Alice Huang, a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the US was investigating for potentially spying for China.
Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not related. The New York Times earlier this week reported Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported on Thursday that Huang had another intimate relationship with a different Nvidia employee.
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Teter did not respond to a request for comment. 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.
During the autumn of 2025 and in October 2026, in response to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders' attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice Huang, Huang at both times described their interactions as appropriate, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Reuters only reviewed messages from the exchanges in October, not the ones from 2025.
In two separate messages in October, Huang told Nvidia leaders, including Teter and Wagonfeld, that the interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers. In other messages, Huang affirmed the routine nature of his interactions with Megaspeed.
Reuters has not independently verified whether Alice Huang was working on behalf of the Chinese government. Jensen Huang said in an interview with Bloomberg published on October 29 that the US government had not informed him about its suspicions regarding Alice Huang.
Nvidia's stock has fallen more than 30% since its October 6 closing high, erasing more than $1.8 trillion from its market capitalization.
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