Will Lori Huang become the world’s richest woman if she divorces Jensen Huang as reports of a third affair swirl?

It was a whirlwind week for Lori Huang, ex-Nvidia CEO’s wife for 40 years, after three extramarital affairs of the 63-year-old have sprung up and ramped up divorce speculation.

Jensen Huang, now the 13th on the Forbes billionaire list, may have to split half of his fortune in case of any divorce. The tech boss lives in California, which is a community property state; that means, as per Forbes, assets that were accumulated during the marriage, including Huang’s stake in Nvidia and any revenue from the company, “must be divided 50/50 during a divorce,” unless it is determined to be one person’s separate property. This would make Lori one of the richest women on the planet.

How rich will Lori Huang be in case of a divorce?

If Lori Huang divorced Jensen after his reported third affair and received half of his fortune, which hovers around $155 billion, she would get more than $75 billion. In current estimates, it would be a little lower, as the Taiwanese-American electrical engineer’s real-time net worth as of November 12 dropped to $144.7 billion when NVIDIA’s shares plunged after his resignation.

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So, in that situation too, Lori Huang could yield at least $70 billion, the outlet estimated, depending on how well Nvidia’s stock performs. But if the duo in the meantime could sing any specific agreement, the exact share would depend on it.

Will Lori Huang be the richest woman on the planet?

No, even with the share from her adulterous husband’s 12-figure net worth, she could only be the fourth richest woman in the world, behind Alice Walton, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers and Julia Koch.

Currently, Forbes names Alice Walton, the Walmart heiress, as the world’s richest woman with over $135 billion. Then L'Oréal’s Françoise Bettencourt Meyers with little over $104 billion and the family of L’Oréal, then Julia Koch and the family of Koch Industries, who have an estimated net worth of $84.6 billion.

How would a Huang divorce compare to other big ones?

Jeff Bezos’ 2019 divorce from MacKenzie Scott is still the closest, in which she received Amazon shares then worth about $36 billion, which made her one of the world’s richest women in a whim.

Jensen Huang’s timeline of affairs

The former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been named in two extramarital relationships; before he resigned, another one popped up.

The New York Times reported on November 11 that Huang had been involved in an “extramarital relationship” with Powell, Nvidia's healthcare VP. Two of the sources they cited told the publication that they “were captured on video being affectionate” at a hotel during a company conference in San Jose in March.

Before that, another woman named Alice Huang, a Singapore-based executive, whom US intelligence has suspected of acting as an intelligence asset for the Chinese government, is linked to him. Then he had acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife, without naming anyone.

On November 12, Reuters reported that the ex CEO was also involved with another woman, without revealing her name.