From nursing school to Nvidias billionaire boss lover: The mysterious rise of alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang as her past vanishes

Traces of alleged spy Alice Huang’s past are vanishing from China’s internet — but a fuller picture of her rise from a factory-town schoolgirl to Nvidia boss Jensen Huang’s side is emerging.Sources from her home province of Hunan told the Post that Huang, who was born in 1977, trained at a nursing school, worked at Hunan TV and state broadcaster CCTV without ever holding a staff job, and was married in Hunan before she met Kang Wei, the stock analyst and investor who allegedly introduced her to Jensen Huang.A source who met her at an event in Beijing about three years ago remembered a tall, soft-spoken woman with polished English and a gift for working a room.“She was easygoing and very polite,” the source told the Post.“Her English was very good, and [she] spoke quite softly,” the source added.“She was very sociable.”A former schoolmate was blunter.

Huang was “good at drinking,” sociable and had a high EQ — emotional intelligence — according to an account attributed to the schoolmate that is circulating in the Chinese community.A WeChat group of her former junior high classmates was dissolved, according to an account circulating in the Chinese community.Her own WeChat account, where she posted photos with the Nvidia boss, has been disabled, the Financial Times reported.

And China’s top AI chatbot, DeepSeek, refused to answer questions about her.Huang, also known as Huang Le, is accused by US intelligence of being recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to get close to the Nvidia chief, the Post reported.Beijing has denied the allegations.

She has not been charged with any crime.Jensen Huang admitted in a letter to employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife.Nvidia’s board has launched an investigation into whether he was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort,” while saying it has no reason to believe national security information or company secrets were compromised.The chairmen of three House committees...