ReutersPersonal lives of some of the world’s most powerful and influential business leaders have made it through into the social media scrutiny after scandals involving NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang erupted.
The 63-year-old was reportedly having “an extramarital relationship” with a senior executive at his own company after admitting infidelity. The New York Times on November 11 identified her as Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA's vice president of healthcare, citing five people familiar with the matter. Two sources told the newspaper that Huang and Powell were seen “being affectionate” at an event in March.
Huang, who has been married to his wife for over 40 years, earlier acknowledged in a message to employees that he had been unfaithful. The first reported relationship involved Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman and former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, who has been suspected by US intelligence officials of having links to China's Ministry of State Security.
Also Read: Who is Graham Gerade? What to know about Kimberly Powell's husband amid Jensen Huang controversy
Meanwhile, The New York Post investigated Alice Huang's background, reporting on her career in Chinese finance and her subsequent move into the technology industry.
“Spies don't do billion-dollar deals,” former senior intelligence officer Nicholas Eftimiades told the Post, suggesting that Alice Huang's business connections could be more significant than the traditional profile of an intelligence operative.
Since all of it is too much to grasp, social media has become the dumping ground for provocative titles like “Billionaires with Asian wives list,” “Chinese women are making their mark in the world of BILLIONAIRES!”
Here is a list of some of the tech billionaires and media moguls whose personal lives are somehow connected to Chinese-descent women or were at some point in time.
Larry Ellison - The Oracle co-founder, 82, has been married six times, and his current wife is Jolin Zhu Ellison. The 33-year-old was born in China and is a University of Michigan alum.
Their private marriage became public in January 2025 after a University of Michigan alumni organization thanked the couple for helping with a $10.5 million NIL deal to land a quarterback, The Hollywood Reporter reported last year.
Rupert Murdoch - The 95-year-old Australian-American media mogul, has been married five times over nearly 70 years, starting in 1956 when he was 25. He is currently married to retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova. He married the Russian in June 2024, marking his fifth marriage.
His third wife was a Chinese woman, Wendi Deng, an entrepreneur, investor, producer, and art collector. The duo tied the knot in 1999, just weeks after his previous, longest marriage to journalist Anna Maria Torv ended.
Deng was born and raised in China and met Murdoch while working at Star TV in Hong Kong. Before meeting Murdoch, Deng was in the US on a student visa at Yale University, where she earned her MBA and had already spent time there.
Mark Zuckerberg - Like Jensen Huang and his wife Lori, Mark Zuckerberg and his Chinese-descent wife Priscilla Chan were college sweethearts.
The inventor and Billionaire CEO of Meta met his wife, Priscilla Chan, in 2003, when they were both students at Harvard. “My best memory from Harvard is meeting Priscilla,” the Facebook founder told the Harvard University graduating class in 2017, quoted by NBC Bay Area.
Chan is the daughter of Chinese refugee parents who fled from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon to the US before she was born in February 1985.
She is currently serving as the co-CEO and co-founder of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company she founded with Mark to solve “some of society’s toughest challenges - from curing or preventing disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities,” per the official website.
Jean Todt- The former Ferrari CEO, 80, is married to Malaysian-born Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh. She rose to fame after starring alongside Jackie Chan in the 1992 film Police Story III.
As per her IMDB profile, she is of Hokkien descent, who can speak English, Malay, and Chinese, and is the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh.
The 64-year-old Oscar-winning actress met Todt in 2004 and wed in 2023 in Yeoh's hometown of Ipoh, Malaysia. On the long delay, she told the Guardian in a 2021 interview, “We’ve been threatening to get married for such a long time. Sometimes we say, ‘Wait, didn’t we already do it?’
Bruce Rockowitz - The 68-year-old Canadian businessman was married to Hong Kong-American singer Coco Lee. Rockowitz, married to the pop diva since 2011, died in 2023 after a suicide attempt following a battle with depression.
Eduardo Saverin - This Facebook co-founder, 44, also has an Indonesian-Chinese wife named Elaine Andriejanssen. The alum of Tufts University is now 42 and has been working as a quantitative research analyst at Franklin Templeton Investments since 2006, Forbes reported, citing her LinkedIn profile. She studied quantitative economics, international relations, and entrepreneurship at Tufts.
Another name that was circulating on social media is that of Sehat Sutardja, the Indonesian-American businessman who died in 2024. His wife was Weili Dai, with whom he founded Marvell Technology in 1995. The Shanghai-born moved to Silicon Valley from China at age 17.
The 63-year-old was reportedly having “an extramarital relationship” with a senior executive at his own company after admitting infidelity. The New York Times on November 11 identified her as Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA's vice president of healthcare, citing five people familiar with the matter. Two sources told the newspaper that Huang and Powell were seen “being affectionate” at an event in March.
Huang, who has been married to his wife for over 40 years, earlier acknowledged in a message to employees that he had been unfaithful. The first reported relationship involved Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman and former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, who has been suspected by US intelligence officials of having links to China's Ministry of State Security.
Also Read: Who is Graham Gerade? What to know about Kimberly Powell's husband amid Jensen Huang controversy
Meanwhile, The New York Post investigated Alice Huang's background, reporting on her career in Chinese finance and her subsequent move into the technology industry.
“Spies don't do billion-dollar deals,” former senior intelligence officer Nicholas Eftimiades told the Post, suggesting that Alice Huang's business connections could be more significant than the traditional profile of an intelligence operative.
Since all of it is too much to grasp, social media has become the dumping ground for provocative titles like “Billionaires with Asian wives list,” “Chinese women are making their mark in the world of BILLIONAIRES!”
Here is a list of some of the tech billionaires and media moguls whose personal lives are somehow connected to Chinese-descent women or were at some point in time.
Larry Ellison - The Oracle co-founder, 82, has been married six times, and his current wife is Jolin Zhu Ellison. The 33-year-old was born in China and is a University of Michigan alum.
Their private marriage became public in January 2025 after a University of Michigan alumni organization thanked the couple for helping with a $10.5 million NIL deal to land a quarterback, The Hollywood Reporter reported last year.
Rupert Murdoch - The 95-year-old Australian-American media mogul, has been married five times over nearly 70 years, starting in 1956 when he was 25. He is currently married to retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova. He married the Russian in June 2024, marking his fifth marriage.
His third wife was a Chinese woman, Wendi Deng, an entrepreneur, investor, producer, and art collector. The duo tied the knot in 1999, just weeks after his previous, longest marriage to journalist Anna Maria Torv ended.
Deng was born and raised in China and met Murdoch while working at Star TV in Hong Kong. Before meeting Murdoch, Deng was in the US on a student visa at Yale University, where she earned her MBA and had already spent time there.
Mark Zuckerberg - Like Jensen Huang and his wife Lori, Mark Zuckerberg and his Chinese-descent wife Priscilla Chan were college sweethearts.
The inventor and Billionaire CEO of Meta met his wife, Priscilla Chan, in 2003, when they were both students at Harvard. “My best memory from Harvard is meeting Priscilla,” the Facebook founder told the Harvard University graduating class in 2017, quoted by NBC Bay Area.
Chan is the daughter of Chinese refugee parents who fled from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon to the US before she was born in February 1985.
She is currently serving as the co-CEO and co-founder of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company she founded with Mark to solve “some of society’s toughest challenges - from curing or preventing disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities,” per the official website.
Jean Todt- The former Ferrari CEO, 80, is married to Malaysian-born Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh. She rose to fame after starring alongside Jackie Chan in the 1992 film Police Story III.
As per her IMDB profile, she is of Hokkien descent, who can speak English, Malay, and Chinese, and is the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh.
The 64-year-old Oscar-winning actress met Todt in 2004 and wed in 2023 in Yeoh's hometown of Ipoh, Malaysia. On the long delay, she told the Guardian in a 2021 interview, “We’ve been threatening to get married for such a long time. Sometimes we say, ‘Wait, didn’t we already do it?’
Bruce Rockowitz - The 68-year-old Canadian businessman was married to Hong Kong-American singer Coco Lee. Rockowitz, married to the pop diva since 2011, died in 2023 after a suicide attempt following a battle with depression.
Eduardo Saverin - This Facebook co-founder, 44, also has an Indonesian-Chinese wife named Elaine Andriejanssen. The alum of Tufts University is now 42 and has been working as a quantitative research analyst at Franklin Templeton Investments since 2006, Forbes reported, citing her LinkedIn profile. She studied quantitative economics, international relations, and entrepreneurship at Tufts.
Another name that was circulating on social media is that of Sehat Sutardja, the Indonesian-American businessman who died in 2024. His wife was Weili Dai, with whom he founded Marvell Technology in 1995. The Shanghai-born moved to Silicon Valley from China at age 17.
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