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Jensen Huang Resigns as NVIDIA CEO Amid Third Affair Allegation With 'Company Employee'

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2026-11-13 06:17:06
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2026-11-13 06:27:25
Jensen Huang, former CEO of U.S.-based NVIDIA, arrives at a banquet venue in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on May 14. AFP-Yonhap News Agency

[Financial News] The former CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, who stepped down amid back-to-back affair allegations, is facing allegations of another affair. The third alleged affair partner is also said to be an NVIDIA employee.
U.S. media outlets, including CNBC, reported on the 12th (local time), citing multiple sources, that Jensen Huang was having an affair with another female employee at NVIDIA. CNBC said it had not identified the employee and had been unable to reach her despite trying to contact her for comment. Jensen Huang and NVIDIA's board did not respond to inquiries about the third affair allegation.
In an article published on the 29th of last month, The New York Times (NYT) claimed that 63-year-old Jensen Huang was having an affair with 42-year-old Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang (Chinese name: Huang Le). The outlet said the U.S. government considers Alice Huang a spy affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security and assessed that she had leaked information about Jensen Huang and NVIDIA to China. Other U.S. media outlets claimed that Alice Huang used her ties to Jensen Huang to smuggle large quantities of NVIDIA artificial intelligence (AI) products, whose export to China is banned, into China.
On the 8th, Jensen Huang acknowledged the affair in an internal notice, but did not disclose the other woman's name. Later, in an article published on the 11th, the NYT cited five sources and claimed that, separately from Alice Huang, Jensen Huang had an affair with 48-year-old Kimberly Powell, an NVIDIA vice president in the healthcare division. That day, NVIDIA's board held a meeting to discuss Jensen Huang's future, and on the 12th, he said he would resign.
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