Amid Jensen Huang's third affair, wife Lori Huang's viral story: She picked his signature jackets and survived a near-fatal engagement-day crash

Jensen Huang's 3rd affair: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's wife Lori Huang is the engineer who picked his signature jacket, once earned more than he did, and helps oversee the family fortune. Lori and Jensen first crossed paths when they were in college. The two first teamed up as lab partners in an electrical engineering class at Oregon State University’s College of Engineering in Corvallis and gradually developed a bond while studying their engineering coursework and married a few years later, reports LuxuryLaunches.

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Biographer Stephen Witt reported that Jensen Huang proposed to Lori at AMD’s Christmas party in 1984. The couple was driving to tell her parents about their engagement when their Toyota Supra hit a slippery patch of ice on the road and overturned. The accident was so serious that rescue workers had to cut Lori out of the wrecked car. She was still wearing her engagement ring.


Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been dominating the headlines for the past week owing to his extramarital affairs. Huang had an intimate relationship with a second company employee, Reuters reported citing people familiar with the matter. The latest revelation follows reports of two other extramarital relationships involving Huang, including one with Alice Huang, whom US intelligence officials suspect of being a Chinese spy, and another with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care.

Early life of Jensen and Lori Huang

When both were designing chips in Silicon Valley, Lori worked at Silicon Graphics. “She actually made more than me,” Jensen later told The New Yorker. The two studied together every Sunday with a promise to build a better future together.

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During Nvidia’s early years, they lived in a four-bedroom San Jose tract house they bought for $338,000. Jensen, who currently owns a curated collection of 50 to 60 signature black leather jackets, had just six months of living expenses left. Lori Huang even resigned from Silicon Graphics always stood beside Jensen to motivate him and eventually Nvidia was founded.

Lori Huang's contributions

Lori’s influence extends beyond managing the family’s household finances and paperwork. A September filing revealed that their living trust held 467.7 million Nvidia shares after a donation. At Nvidia’s closing price on September 17, those shares were worth approximately $103 billion. Meanwhile, Forbes estimated Nvidia CEO and President Jensen Huang’s net worth at $162 billion.

Through their substantial wealth, Lori also plays a role in directing major philanthropic initiatives. These include a $50 million donation to their alma mater, Oregon State University, to establish a collaborative innovation complex and an AI supercomputing centre.

Although Lori has never worked at Nvidia or held a board position at the company, she shares legal control over roughly 85% of the shares reported under Jensen’s name. Their foundation is also among the largest private foundations in the US, highlighting that Lori plays a significant role in managing the family's wealth and charitable contributions.

Jensen Huang third affair comes to light

Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee at the chipmaking giant, bringing the number of women romantically linked to the married billionaire executive to three. The wealthy tech whiz has been married to Lori Huang for more than 40 years. The couple has two children.

US intelligence agencies reportedly concluded that Alice Huang had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information about the Nvidia chief. Beijing has rejected the espionage allegations, and the available reporting has not established that Jensen Huang knowingly assisted Chinese intelligence.

The second woman Kimberly Powell, 48, has worked at Nvidia since 2008 and reports to Huang, according to the Times, which cited five former or current employees in detailing the relationship.