“My wife picked out this leather jacket too”: Jensen Huang admits to infidelity; his style is “his wife’s handiwork”

[Financial News]  NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has officially admitted to being unfaithful, bringing renewed attention to the story behind his trademark black leather jacket. Huang has repeatedly described the jacket as his wife’s handiwork, saying, “My wife picks out all my clothes.” 
According to EDaily and other outlets on the 11th, Huang told employees in an internal message on the 8th (local time), “I was not faithful to my wife. There is no excuse for my actions.” The other party is Ellis Huang, a woman formerly with Singapore-based semiconductor distributor Megaspeed International, who is suspected of being a spy for Chinese intelligence agencies.
Huang has worn a black leather jacket at official events, including product launches, regardless of the season or venue, and it has become his trademark.
U.S. network CNBC reported that Huang has favored wearing a black Tom Ford leather jacket at events for nearly 20 years.
Huang has previously said on several occasions that his wife, Lori Huang, picks out his clothes. According to NVIDIA’s official blog and foreign media reports, at the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH 2024, held in Colorado in July 2024, he swapped jackets with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and introduced his jacket, saying, “Laura bought it for me to commemorate this year’s SIGGRAPH,” adding, “I’ve only had it on for two hours.” 
On the tvN variety show “You Quiz on the Block,” filmed during his visit to Korea last June, he said, “I don’t shop at all. My wife picks out all my clothes,” and added, “I stopped shopping after I met my wife when I was 17.”
On the podcast “No Priors,” released in April 2023, he was asked where he gets his leather jackets and answered, “My wife.” He went on to explain, “My wife and daughter are always looking for jackets for me, but honestly, most of the jackets hanging in my closet are too fashion-forward for me. So I wear the more subdued ones.”
Huang’s black leather jackets have fetched high prices at auction thanks to their symbolic value. At a Sotheby’s auction in July, a jacket he wore at Foxconn Tech Day in Taiwan in 2023 sold for $960,000 (about 1.28 billion won). That is 96 times its retail price of $10,000 (about 13 million won). 
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