Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired Heller, a crisis management firm known for handling sex scandals, at least a year before he publicly admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, Wired reported.
Heller founder Lisa Heller has advised prominent men through personal scandals and accusations of sexual misconduct, according to a 2023 profile in New York Magazine. Her clients reportedly include former Congressman Anthony Weiner, celebrity chef Mario Batali, and former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin.
Wired also reported that shortly after an October 2025 New York Times report about whether Nvidia was helping Chinese companies evade U.S. chip export restrictions, Nvidia’s internal communications team was instructed to emulate Heller in its press coverage of Huang.
The Times reported that MegaSpeed, a Singapore-based data center company with ties to China, has acquired about $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. It was about Megaspeed CEO Alice Huang (a woman later associated with Jensen Huang) who stood next to him at an Nvidia customer gathering in Taipei.
Heller and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Nvidia released a statement from Huang on Sunday, acknowledging his affair with a former Megaspeed executive, but without naming Alice Huang. Nvidia’s board announced an independent investigation, citing reports that Huang was “the target of foreign intelligence operations.”
