Judge dismisses ChatGPT boss’s sex abuse lawsuit brought by his sister
Sam Altman denied all the accusations in a statement with his family, calling the claims “deeply hurtful and completely untrue.”
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Sam Altman’s sister, Annie Altman. She accused the head of OpenAI of sexually abusing her more than 20 years ago.
Annie Altman accused her brother, who runs the company that makes ChatGPT, of sexually abusing and raping her at their family home in Clayton, Missouri. She said the abuse began when she was three and he was 12, and continued from 1997 to 2006.
She claimed that the last abuse happened when Mr Altman was an adult. He is now 41.
Mr Altman has always denied the accusations. In a joint statement on X with his mother and brothers, he said his sister had “mental health challenges”. He also said that he and his family had been giving her financial support.
“Despite this, Annie continues to demand more money from us.”
He added: “In this vein, Annie has made deeply hurtful and entirely untrue claims about our family, especially Sam.”
US district judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed Ms Altman’s lawsuit because she had refused to attend an independent medical examination. The judge wrote that she had been warned that failing to attend would lead to the case being dismissed.
Lawyers for Ms Altman did not immediately reply when asked for comment. Santos Perez, a lawyer who had represented her in the case but stopped working on it this month, said in a statement: “I am no longer authorised to comment on this case, but I continue to believe in Annie.”
Lawyers for Mr Altman have not yet commented.
Mr Altman became one of the best-known faces of the artificial intelligence boom after OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022.