Alice Huang: Nvidia Boss Jensen Huang’s Chinese Mistress Called Him to Bar and Caressed Him at Dinner in Front of Business Associates
The glamorous woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair with, and who has been accused of spying for China, reportedly boasted to business executives about her intimate relationship to the billionaire and claimed to finalize business deals with him.
Huang, 63, admitted in a memo to employees on Sunday, that he was having an affair with a Chinese entrepreneur who is under investigation over allegations that she passed information to Beijing. It remains unclear when the affair began, but reports suggest Alice Huang, who is not related to the Nvidia chief, had been telling business executives about her close ties to him as early as June 2024.
Mistress Boasted of Her Ties
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At a computer industry trade show in Taipei around that time, sources told The Wall Street Journal that Alice Huang demonstrated her close connection to Jensen Huang by asking him to join her and a group of business executives at a bar. “Jensen’s a great friend of mine,” she reportedly told the group. He arrived just minutes after she sent him a text inviting him to join them.
Wearing his signature leather jacket, the Nvidia CEO then spent time chatting with the executives at the bar. A photograph taken during the gathering showed him seated closely beside the woman accused of spying for China.
The two were reportedly seen together again during another visit to Taipei in May 2025. At a dinner, they were spotted kissing each other on the cheek and touching one another’s arms, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Other photos that surfaced after the scandal showed the pair raising wine glasses in a toast and smiling together while seated side by side at various points in their relationship.
U.S. authorities began investigating Alice Huang after her company, Megaspeed, was accused of illegally rerouting Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of strict sanctions.
Authorities in Taiwan and Singapore have also probed her alleged links to Beijing’s intelligence services. The revelations about her relationship with Jensen Huang have since thrown the chipmaker, one of the world’s most valuable companies, into turmoil.
Before Jensen Huang admitted to the affair in a memo to Nvidia employees on Sunday, the company had dismissed reports of a relationship between the two that surfaced earlier this year.
The admission has since triggered fresh turmoil for the company. On Monday, both Nvidia and Huang were sued by shareholders over the affair.
Nvidia in Trouble
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The lawsuit alleges that Nvidia and Huang misled shareholders about the relationship before the scandal sent the company’s stock down 4.3 percent by Monday’s close. The decline wiped around $190 billion off Nvidia’s market value.
Although Huang admitted to the affair, Nvidia maintains that it was unaware of any investigations involving Megaspeed or Alice Huang. The company also said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.”
Nvidia has launched an internal investigation to “examine all available information,” a step that the company said its CEO supports.
Huang has been married to his wife, Lori, for 41 years. The couple have two adult children, Madison and Spencer.
The controversy comes as Huang has become an increasingly influential figure in President Donald Trump’s circle, largely because of Nvidia’s central role in advancing artificial intelligence and superintelligence.
It also emerged on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio allegedly knew about Huang’s relationship with Alice as early as spring this year but continued to keep the CEO within Trump’s inner circle.
Rubio oversaw the preparation of a highly classified memo last spring warning senior Trump administration officials about Huang’s close ties to the woman suspected of spying for China, The New York Times reported. The document reportedly drew on classified intelligence gathered through electronic surveillance of Alice Huang.
Her exact age and early background remain unclear. However, US intelligence identified her as a senior executive at Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based company that purchased Nvidia’s advanced AI chips.
The company and its executives were also under investigation over allegations that the chips were illegally smuggled into China, the report said. A person familiar with the matter told the NY Times that Rubio alerted other Trump officials through the memo shortly before the president visited China.
Huang was initially left off the list of technology executives invited to accompany Trump on the trip. However, it remains unclear whether Rubio’s warning influenced that decision, the outlet reported.
Huang ultimately joined the president on the visit.
