Huang Renxun secretly ate the spy's mistress! If property is divided in divorce, wife may take "a sky-high amount" and set a new global record

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been involved in an extramarital affair, and has been implicated in a suspected Chinese intelligence infiltration scandal. The outside world has also begun to focus on his astonishing net worth. Since Huang Renxun and his wife Lori have been married for more than 40 years, if this turmoil eventually turns into a divorce, how much property his wife may get has become a hot topic of discussion.

According to comprehensive Korean media reports, according to billionaire information released by "Forbes", Huang Jen-Hsun's current net worth is as high as US$162.2 billion (approximately NT$5.32 trillion), ranking 8th in the world's richest list. He co-founded Huida in 1993 and has been its chief executive since then, holding approximately 3.4% of Huida's shares.

Huang Renxun and his wife Lori married in 1985. The two are currently rumored to live in California, where Huida is headquartered. Since California adopts a community property system, the property accumulated during the marriage is in principle "equally distributed" upon divorce. Therefore, it is speculated that if Huang's entire net worth is recognized as community property formed during the marriage, his wife may receive approximately US$81.1 billion (approximately NT$2.66 trillion).

However, the actual property division amount is not simply dividing the current net worth in half. Whether the assets were acquired before marriage or accumulated after marriage, as well as the manner and nature of the property acquisition, may affect the final distribution result. In addition, whether the couple has signed a prenuptial or other property agreement will also become an important variable. Therefore, the current figure of US$81.1 billion is only an estimate based on the premise that all net assets are marital property, and is not a definite division amount.

In fact, there have been cases in the U.S. technology industry in the past where founders divorced and divided huge amounts of property. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ended his 25-year marriage to MacKenzie Scott in 2019, when news of Bezos' extramarital affair was exposed, bringing the divorce to global attention.

The two reached a property division agreement in April of the same year. Scott obtained 25% of the Amazon shares held by the couple, which was equivalent to about 4% of all issued shares of Amazon. At the time, it was worth approximately US$38 billion (approximately NT$1.25 trillion). As a result, Scott became one of the richest women in the world, ranking 4th among the world's richest women at the time.

Another case is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He ended his 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates in 2021. During the divorce process, the publicly traded stocks transferred to Melinda were worth more than US$5.7 billion (approximately NT$187 billion).

If the predictions are true, the inheritance of Huang Renxun's wife Lori will far exceed the approximately US$38 billion of the divorce settlement of Bezos's ex-wife Scott that year, setting a new record for the divorce settlement of the world's richest people, and is even expected to enter the top 5 of the world's richest women.