Behind the Jensen Huang extramarital affair controversy: $155.2 billion fortune faces uncertainty over divorce division, wife may get over $75 billion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged an extramarital affair, raising questions over whether he and his wife of nearly four decades, Lori Huang, will divorce and how his roughly $155.2 billion fortune—per Forbes—would be divided. Because the couple married in California, a community property state, Lori could in theory claim half of assets acquired during the marriage, including Huang’s stake of more than 3.5% in Nvidia, unless a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement says otherwise. That could put her share at $75 billion or more, depending on Nvidia’s share price, which fell after the scandal and briefly pushed Huang out of the world’s top 10 richest. The comparison matters because a settlement at that scale would dwarf recent billionaire divorces, including MacKenzie Scott’s roughly $36 billion of Amazon stock. Neither Lori Huang nor the company has confirmed divorce plans, so the key unknowns are whether the couple has a marital agreement and whether Huang can classify any assets as separate property.