On November 12, Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO, four days after admitting an affair. No divorce has been filed. If one were, and his Nvidia stake were split down the middle under California law, this is the cut.
If Jensen Huang's Nvidia stake were split 50/50, Lori Huang's half would be worth $55.7B.
Jensen Huang
−$55.7B
About 335 million shares out the door. He'd keep about as many.
Lori Huang
+$55.7B
Married to him since 1985, eight years before Nvidia was founded.
Starts at the latest price, $166.19 (Nov 12 close). Drag it and watch both halves move.
$166.19
At this price, half is worth $55.7B, the second-biggest divorce settlement on record. Only the Gates divorce was bigger.
Each $1 the stock moves shifts the half by $335 million. Above $226.87 a share, it passes the Gates divorce.
Billions are hard to picture
In $1 bills, the half makes a stack 3,778 miles tall.
That is about 15 times higher than the International Space Station orbits.
A $1 bill is 0.0043 inches thick, per the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The station orbits about 250 miles up.
Schedule of assets (hypothetical)
California treats what a couple earns during a marriage as community property, split 50/50. Here's how the reported pieces would divide.
| Asset | Value | Jensen keeps | Goes to Lori |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia shares held directly, in a joint revocable trust and through six LLCs (about 671 million)1 | $111.3B | $55.7B | +$55.7B |
| Nvidia shares in two irrevocable trusts (about 140 million)1 | Over $26B | Not counted | Not counted |
| Prenuptial agreement2 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Petition for dissolution of marriage | Not filed | No change | No change |
- SFist, Nov 9, 2026, citing Forbes. Its figures use the Nov 7 close; ours move with the price above.
- Whether a prenup or postnup exists hasn't been reported.
- Forbes puts Huang's total fortune at about $155 billion, which would make half at least $75 billion (Forbes). We count only the Nvidia shares SFist itemized.
The story so far
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2026 | Huang admits an affair in an internal email (SFist). |
| Nov 12, 2026 | Nvidia says Huang has resigned as president, CEO and director, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO and Harvey C. Jones becomes the company's first chair (Nvidia). |
| Nov 17, 2026 | Nvidia reports quarterly earnings, as previously scheduled. Whatever the stock does next moves both halves. |
| Divorce filing | None as of Nov 12, 2026. |
Where it would rank
At $55.7B, it would land at number 2 of 47. Leave out Gates, and the other 45 divorces on the list add up to $56.1B, which is more than this one half, for now.
Settlements as reported at the time, not adjusted for inflation. Source: Wikipedia, “List of most expensive divorces”. The Gates figure is an estimate.
Who gets half?
In nine states, what a couple earns while married generally belongs to both of them equally. Everywhere else, a judge divides it "equitably," which isn't always the same thing as equally.
Community-property states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
Divorces in SEC filings
When an executive hands stock to a spouse or ex-spouse as part of a divorce, it can turn up in the company's filings. We log each one we find.