Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired Heller Inc., a crisis communications firm known for handling sex scandals, at least a year before publicly admitting to an extramarital affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, Wired reported.
Heller Inc. founder Risa Heller has advised prominent men through personal scandals and accusations of sexual misconduct, according to a 2023 New York Magazine profile. Her reported clients include former Congressman Anthony Weiner, celebrity chef Mario Batali and former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin.
Wired also reported that Nvidia’s internal communications team was instructed to copy Heller Inc. during press inquiries about Huang shortly after an October 2025 New York Times article reporting on whether Nvidia was helping Chinese companies evade U.S. chip export restrictions.
The Times reported that Megaspeed, a then-little-known data center company based in Singapore with ties to China, had acquired nearly $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. It described Megaspeed CEO Alice Huang, the woman later linked to Jensen Huang, standing next to him at an Nvidia customer gathering in Taipei.
Heller and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
On Sunday, Nvidia released a statement from Huang admitting to an affair with a former Megaspeed executive, although it did not name Alice Huang. Nvidia’s board separately announced an independent investigation, citing reports that Huang “was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
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