New Delhi, April 16 -- OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, who became a face of the artificial intelligence, is embroiled in a civil lawsuit filed by his sister Annie Altman, accusing him of sexual abuse during childhood. OpenAI's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is seeking to dismiss punitive damages claims of repeated sexual abuse more than two decades ago, Reuters reported.

In a St Louis lawsuit filed in January 2025, Annie Altman accused her brother of sexually abusing and raping her in 1997 at the family home in suburban Clayton, Missouri. She alleged that Sam Altman started sexually abusing her when he was 12 and she was three. According to her statement, the tech billionaire molested her even in his adulthood with the "last acts of sexual ...