The Altman family said the claim is ‘utterly untrue’ and ‘hurtful’ after years of attempting to help the sister financially and medically.
CLAYTON, Mo. — Sam Altman, a key leader in the artificial intelligence movement is accused of sexually abusing his sister at their childhood home in Clayton, Missouri, according to a lawsuit filed on Jan. 6.
Altman and other family members denied the accusations in a statement posted to his X account Tuesday evening.
Lawsuit claims
The civil lawsuit, filed by Mahoney Law Firm in Glen Carbon, Illinois, accuses OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of sexually abusing his sister, Ann, on several occasions between 1997 and 2006. The abuse allegedly started when he was 12 years old and she was 3 years old, and continued until Ann was 11 years old and Altman was an adult.
“No child should ever be forced to endure the abuse that Annie has suffered, least of …