Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, filed a complaint on Monday, claiming that her brother routinely sexually assaulted her from 1997 until 2006.
The abuse allegedly started when Ann, also known as Annie, was three years old and Sam was twelve years old. The action was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri. According to the complaint, the abusive behaviors, which started with oral sex and progressed to penetration, occurred multiple times a week.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff has suffered from extreme emotional distress, mental agony, and depression as a direct and immediate result of the aforementioned acts of sexual assault, and these symptoms are anticipated to persist into the future.
Although the younger Altman has previously accused her brother of sexual assault in public on websites like X, this is the first time she has brought him before a judge. Ryan Mahoney, whose Illinois-based practice focuses on cases involving sexual assault and harassment, is her attorney.
A jury trial and damages over $75,000 are sought in the complaint.
Sam Altman refuted the accusations in a joint statement on X with his siblings Jack and Max, as well as their mother Connie.
According to the statement, Annie has made incredibly damaging and completely false statements about our family, and Sam in particular. To protect both our own and her privacy, we have decided not to publicly comment. We feel compelled to address this, though, as she has now filed a lawsuit against Sam.
According to their reaction, all of these allegations are completely false, and our entire family is in great suffering as a result of this circumstance. According to them, Ann Altman struggles with her mental health, rejects traditional therapy, and snaps at family members who are sincerely attempting to support her.
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Since OpenAI’s November 2022 launch of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, Sam Altman has become well-known throughout the world. Supported by Microsoft, the business was most recently valued at $157 billion. SoftBank, chipmaker Nvidia, Thrive Capital, and others provided investment for the venture.
The board of OpenAI momentarily removed Altman from his position as CEO in November 2023, but he was swiftly reinstalled as a result of investor and staff pressure.
The IT executive is facing other lawsuits as well.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, sued OpenAI and its co-founders Altman and Greg Brockman in March, claiming that they had breached their fiduciary responsibility and contract. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI when it started out as a nonprofit in 2015 and currently leads a rival AI business called xAI. Musk has publicly chastised OpenAI for supposedly straying from its initial goal since leaving the board in 2018.
Musk is initiating legal action to prevent OpenAI from becoming a for-profit business. Musk re-filed the complaint in federal court after withdrawing the first one, which had been filed in a state court in San Francisco, in June.
OpenAI retaliated against Musk last month, asserting in a blog post that Musk not only desired but also developed a for-profit business in 2017 to serve as the organization’s suggested new structure.
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