Former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s senior leaders, including its top lawyer, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, according to Reuters.
The news agency said it had reviewed internal correspondence from October, and that two people familiar with the matter described how Huang characterised his dealings with Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, as ordinary business with a customer. Reuters said it was the first to report on the correspondence.
In two separate messages in October, Huang told Nvidia leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, that his interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers, the report said. In other messages he affirmed the routine nature of his dealings with Megaspeed, the Singapore-based company where Alice Huang was a senior executive and which was an Nvidia business partner in Asia-Pacific.
Huang had given the same account on earlier occasions. In the autumn of 2025 and again in October 2026, when press questions drew Nvidia leaders’ attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice Huang, he described their interactions as appropriate, according to the people who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The report also said Huang discussed taking legal action against the New York Times after it published an article in October last year drawing attention to his meetings in public with Alice Huang. Neither Nvidia nor Huang filed a lawsuit, and the newspaper said it received no legal demand.
Huang resigned as Nvidia chief executive on Thursday, a spectacular fall for a pioneer of the technology at the centre of the artificial intelligence boom. In a statement on Sunday he apologised for being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company, without naming Alice Huang.
The New York Times had earlier reported that Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported on Thursday that he had another intimate relationship with a different Nvidia employee. Photos verified by Reuters show Huang and Alice Huang together in the United States, China and elsewhere, dating as far back as December 2023. The two share a surname but are not related.
Alice Huang is under investigation by United States authorities over suspicions she may have been spying for China, a claim Beijing has denied. Reuters said it had not independently verified whether she was working on behalf of the Chinese government. Huang told Bloomberg in an interview published on 29 October that the US government had not informed him about its suspicions regarding Alice Huang.
Nvidia’s board said on 10 November it had hired the Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an independent investigation. Nvidia’s stock has fallen more than 30 percent since its 6 October closing high, erasing more than $1.8 trillion from its market value.
Note on sourcing: the account of what Huang told Nvidia leaders rests on two people who spoke anonymously and on internal messages Reuters reviewed but did not quote verbatim. The allegation that Alice Huang spied for China remains unverified.
Sources: Reuters — “Ex-Nvidia CEO misled top lawyer on affair with Chinese businesswoman, sources say” (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ex-nvidia-ceo-misled-top-lawyer-affair-with-chinese-businesswoman-sources-say-2026-11-14/)
