Wired reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired Heller Inc., a crisis communications firm, at least a year before he publicly acknowledged an extramarital affair. The report says the firm is known for handling sex scandals.
Heller Inc. founder Risa Heller has advised prominent men through personal scandals and sexual misconduct accusations, according to a 2023 New York Magazine profile. The profile names former congressman Anthony Weiner, celebrity chef Mario Batali, and former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin as reported clients.
Wired also reported that Nvidia's internal communications team was told to copy Heller Inc. on press inquiries about Huang shortly after an October 2025 New York Times report. That report examined whether Nvidia was helping Chinese companies evade U.S. chip export restrictions. The Times said Megaspeed, a then little-known Singapore-based data center company with ties to China, had acquired nearly $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. It described Megaspeed CEO Alice Huang standing next to Jensen Huang at a Taipei gathering of Nvidia customers.
Heller and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requ