OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her recurrently between the years of 1997 and 2006.
The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court within the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that the abuse befell on the household’s house in Clayton, Missouri, and commenced when Ann, who goes by Annie, was three and Sam was 12. The submitting claims that the abusive actions befell “a number of instances per week,” starting with oral intercourse and later involving penetration.
The lawsuit claims that “as a direct and proximate results of the foregoing acts of sexual assault,” the plaintiff has skilled “extreme emotional misery, psychological anguish, and melancholy, which is anticipated to proceed into the long run.”
The youthful Altman has publicly made related sexual assault allegations towards her brother up to now on platforms like X, however that is the primary time she’s taken him to court docket. She’s being represented by Ryan Mahoney, whose Illinois-based agency makes a speciality of issues together with sexual assault and harassment.
The lawsuit requests a jury trial and damages in extra of $75,000.
In a joint statement on X along with his mom, Connie, and his brothers Jack and Max, Sam Altman denied the allegations.
“Annie has made deeply hurtful and completely unfaithful claims about our household, and particularly Sam,” the assertion stated. “We’ve chosen to not reply publicly, out of respect for her privateness and our personal. However, she has now taken authorized motion towards Sam, and we really feel we now have no selection however to deal with this.”
Their response says “all of those claims are totally unfaithful,” including that “this example causes immense ache to our whole household.” They stated that Ann Altman faces “psychological well being challenges” and “refuses standard remedy and lashes out at relations who’re genuinely attempting to assist.”
Sam Altman has gained worldwide prominence since OpenAI’s debut of the synthetic intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022. Backed by Microsoft, the corporate was most just lately valued at $157 billion, with funding coming from Thrive Capital, chipmaker Nvidia, SoftBank and others.
Altman was briefly ousted from the CEO position by OpenAI’s board in November 2023, however was shortly reinstated because of stress from traders and workers.
This is not the one lawsuit the tech exec faces.
In March, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sued OpenAI and co-founders Altman and Greg Brockman, alleging breach of contract and fiduciary responsibility. Musk, who now runs a competing AI startup, xAI, was a co-founder of OpenAI when it started as a nonprofit in 2015. Musk left the board in 2018 and has publicly criticized OpenAI for allegedly abandoning its unique mission.
Musk is suing to maintain OpenAI from turning right into a for-profit firm. In June, Musk withdrew the unique grievance filed in a San Francisco state court docket and later refiled in federal court.
Last month, OpenAI clapped back towards Musk, claiming in a weblog publish that in 2017 Musk “not solely wished, however truly created, a for-profit” to function the corporate’s proposed new construction.
