Huang, the 63-year-old co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, recently acknowledged his extra-marital affair with a suspected Chinese spy named Alice Huang.
She was also allegedly tasked with influencing Huang to push for fewer restrictions on chip sales to China. (Also read: Jensen Huang’s two children, Madison and Spencer Huang, earn over $1 million each at Nvidia ) US intelligence officials believe Alice Huang was recruited by Chinese intelligence to get close to the Nvidia CEO and gather information from him, according to a New York Times report.
Bloomberg reported this morning that Alice Huang has returned to her home country and is currently living in Beijing. In espionage, a honeypot is a person sent to lure a target into a relationship, with the aim of exploiting them for confidential information or leverage. “Where are the French/Russian/Iranian honeypots? Not one spy girl sent my way. “France is excused — their decision-makers aren’t into girls. Everyone else: try harder!” he added in a veiled dig at French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron. The Macrons have filed a defamation lawsuit against US podcaster Candace Owens for spreading the false claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man. “Pavel, you can make jokes about spy agencies all you want, but don’t talk about Iranian women like that. Iranian women deserve respect, not to be reduced to dating options in your jokes,” read a comment under his post.
Are they even trying?” joked 42-year-old Durov, who is not married. Durov’s post drew backlash from a section of the internet even as it garnered over 1 million views on X.
“Unfair that CEOs who aren’t into Asian girls get fewer dating options from spy agencies,” Pavel Durov posted on X this morning, before proceeding to joke about not getting “honeypots” from France, Russia or Iran. “Imagine being a jacked, handsome billionaire and still struggling to attract a state-sponsored girlfriend,” wrote one X user. “So this is where humor comes to die,” another wrote.
“A billionaire with a 10/10 girlfriend, yet he’s still expecting a honeypot from France, Russia, or Iran… It seems like he’s never satisfied. Some X users posted pictures of Durov with his alleged girlfriend to criticise his comments. The sunny world of billionaires is unhinged,” one X user wrote.
