A group of tech executives were getting ready to toast whiskey at a party in Taipei when one of them interrupted to say she could probably get Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to join them.
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Within minutes, the man behind the world's most valuable company appeared by her side.
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Clad in his distinctive motorcycle jacket and Oakley Tie Bar glasses, Jensen smiled as he sat next to the mysterious woman in a pink, sleeveless dress.
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With her long hair swept to one side, Alice Huang, no relation, looked on as she listened to Jensen, 63, talk to some of his most important Asian customers.
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Tripp Mickle, the New York Times reporter who first reported the relationship between Jensen and Alice, stressed the significance of having the Taiwan-born Jensen at a tech meetup in his home country, telling The Daily: 'This is in Taipei.
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This is where he is a rockstar among rockstars and this is the industry that he is building and leading.
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To be able to, in moments, summon the most important figure in the industry really catches people's attention.'
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From first glance, it seemed like Alice, whose lobes were adorned with a pair of pearl earrings that matched the necklace draped across her chest, was among them.
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A senior executive at Megaspeed, she controlled the day-to-day operations of the Singapore-based data center company that was poised to buy $2 billion of AI technology from Nvidia over the next year.
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But US intelligence services now believe Alice was a suspected Chinese spy recruited to funnel information on Jensen to Beijing.
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She had been having an affair with Jensen, who has since apologized for being 'unfaithful' to his wife of more than 40 years.
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As the espionage allegations became public late last month, Jensen could no longer keep his dealings with Megaspeed and interactions with Alice under wraps, all of which are now playing out in the public eye.
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And then came news of another alleged affair with a colleague and then his official resignation from Nvidia.
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Jensen's quick and dramatic downfall has left many wondering what's to become of his billion-dollar fortune and his 3.58 percent stake in Nvidia – and whether his wife Lori Huang, 65, could receive a divorce payout even bigger than MacKenzie Bezos or Melinda Gates.
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Clad in his distinctive motorcycle jacket and Oakley Tie Bar glasses, Jensen Huang smiles as he sits next to a mysterious woman in pink
US intelligence services believe Alice Huang, who was having an affair, was a suspected Chinese spy recruited to funnel information on Jensen Huang to Beijing
When the news of the affair broke, Jensen apologized for being 'unfaithful' to his wife of more than 40 years
'There's just so much money,' Nancy Chemtob, a divorce attorney specializing in high-net worth clients told the Daily Mail.
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Chemtob has not been approached nor is working on any legal matters involving Jensen or Lori, but based on her 30 years of experience with other clients, sometimes affairs have ugly endings.
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'If she were my client, she would get divorced because this is New York Times front page embarrassing,' she said.
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So far, it is merely speculative that a divorce is even being considered.
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Jensen said in a Sunday statement: 'To my wife and family: I love you.
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I know an apology cannot undo what I have done.
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I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.'
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Things only got worse for Jensen on Wednesday, when news of another supposed affair – this time with Kimberly Powell, a 43-year-old Nvidia executive who reported directly to the CEO – broke.
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The two were reportedly captured on video being affectionate during an Nvidia conference in March.
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On Thursday morning, Jensen resigned.
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The Board and the company thank Jensen for his immeasurable contributions to the company and the industry,' the company wrote in a press release announcing his resignation.
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Later on Thursday, Reuters reported that Jensen allegedly had a third affair with a second, anonymous Nvidia employee.
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Neither Jensen nor Powell have issued a comment on either allegation.
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It’s a surprising end for Jensen, who along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, had cofounded Nvidia in 1993.
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Lori Mills first met Jensen in a freshman electrical engineering class at Oregon State University during the early 1980s.
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After spending six months trying to impress his lab partner with his 'strong capability to complete homework,' Jensen worked up the courage to ask her out, and so their love story began.
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News of another affair – this one with Kimberly Powell, a 43-year-old Nvidia executive who reported directly to Nvidia CEO Jensen surfaced on Wednesday
Lori Mills first met Jensen in a freshman electrical engineering class at Oregon State University during the early 1980s.
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The couple married in 1985
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After graduation, the college sweethearts moved to Silicon Valley, where both began working as microchip designers.
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They got married in 1985 and within a few years, Lori had left the workforce to raise their two kids, son Spencer, now 36, and daughter Madison, now 35.
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For much of the 90s and early 2000s, the company was primarily known for building chips that accelerated 3D graphics in video games.
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But when the AI boom came in 2022, Silicon Valley realized those chips had a more lucrative purpose: Nvidia's chips were needed to run its AI technology.
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Overnight, the company became the 'shovel sellers' of the new gold rush.
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The chipmaker became the first company to ever be valued at $5 trillion last year, and as of Wednesday afternoon, Forbes estimates Jensen's net worth to be $153.6 billion, making the 63-year-old the 11th richest person in the world.
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It's unclear whether Jensen and Lori signed a prenuptial agreement before tying the knot but having married at 22 and 24 – eight years before Nvidia was founded – and they have not made any public statements about prenups.
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However, experts speculated to the Daily Mail that it wouldn't be entirely surprising if there wasn't one in place.
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…and 63 more, not listed.
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