Jensen Huang’s resignation as Nvidia chief executive after an affair scandal has put his family in the spotlight. Amid growing speculation about a potential divorce, here's how the Huang family fortune is structured and what Lori Huang’s net worth could be.
Huang, 63, stepped down four days after telling employees he had been unfaithful to Lori Huang, his wife of 41 years. His admission came after reports of his link to Alice Huang, a businesswoman, whom US intelligence officials suspect of spying for China.
Connected fortunes
The couple’s finances are tied together through three family trusts—on which both serve as co-trustees—that directly held nearly 660 million Nvidia shares in March.
By September, an SEC filing showed those direct holdings at about 608 million shares, with further stock held via companies owned by their living trust, over which Nvidia says they may share voting and investment control.
Though there is no separate public figure for Lori Huang's individual net worth, her wealth is jointly held with her husband.
The combined/household net worth is estimated at roughly $145 billion to $155 billion (driven largely by their Nvidia shares). Some wealth trackers even attribute the combined $140 billion household fortune directly to her.
Lori also co-runs the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation, which holds roughly $9.1 billion in net assets.
Because the couple married in 1985—eight years before Nvidia was founded—and reside in California (a community-property state), financial analysts estimate that half of their marital fortune would equal roughly $72.5 billion to $80 billion.
For comparison, MacKenzie Scott walked away from her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos with a 4 per cent Amazon stake worth $38.3 billion—a fortune that placed her third on Forbes’ ranking of America’s richest women by October.
Much like Scott, Lori Huang was part of her husband’s journey long before his billionaire rise—having already built an engineering career in the chip industry by the time Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993.
Lori and Jensen Huang first met as lab partners in an electrical engineering class at Oregon State University, and later landed jobs in Silicon Valley. During an interview with The New Yorker in 2023, Jensen said that she earned more than him.
Forbes pegged Jensen Huang’s fortune at around $145 billion as of Thursday, making him the world’s 13th-richest person. A 50 per cent share, at roughly $72.5 billion, would be enough to rank fourth on the magazine’s March list of the world’s wealthiest women.
Of course, what Lori might receive if they divorced would depend on which assets qualify as marital property and whether the couple signed a prenup or postnup, which remains unclear. In California, courts generally divide community property equally unless the spouses agree to a different split.
