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A U.S. federal justice connected Friday dismissed a suit by Sam Altman’s sister accusing the billionaire OpenAI main enforcement of sexually abusing her much than 2 decades ago, but said she tin effort suing nether a antithetic ineligible theory.
The justice besides said Sam Altman, who has denied his sister’s accusations, whitethorn countersue his sister for defamation.
U.S. District Judge Zachary Bluestone successful St. Louis said the pistillate cannot prosecute intersexual battle and intersexual battery claims over her brother’s alleged maltreatment betwixt 1997 and 2006, due to the fact that those claims expired successful 2008. He said she volition beryllium allowed to record an amended ailment stating a assertion nether Missouri’s Childhood Sexual Abuse statute.
Sam Altman’s defamation counterclaim stemmed from posts betwixt 2021 and 2024 connected societal media, including X and TikTok, wherever his sister referred to alleged abuse, usually without mentioning his name.
Bluestone said specified statements “require lone a tenable inference” that Sam Altman was the accused perpetrator, and that helium tin effort to prove defamation by showing his sister acted with existent malice.
Ryan Mahoney, a lawyer for the woman, said she volition promptly record an amended complaint and proceed gathering evidence. A lawyer for Sam Altman declined to comment. The pistillate sued her member successful January 2025 implicit alleged maltreatment astatine the household location successful suburban Clayton, Missouri, opening erstwhile she was 3 and her member was 12.
Sam Altman, present 40, and his household person said his sister has intelligence health challenges.
In a tribunal filing, helium said his household is “deliberate and thoughtful” successful helping their sister, including done monthly fiscal support, but the suit amounted to extortion.
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI and became a look of the artificial quality roar pursuing the 2022 merchandise of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. Another co-founder, Elon Musk, is suing implicit OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit institution and seeking arsenic much arsenic $134.5 cardinal successful damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, 1 of its backers. Jury enactment is scheduled for April 27.
Sam Altman is worthy $3.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
