{"id":18897,"date":"2026-04-27T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:37:08","slug":"sam-altmans-sister-loses-lawyers-in-her-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-openai-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18897\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman&#8217;s sister loses lawyers in her sex-abuse lawsuit against OpenAI CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two law firms representing Sam Altman\u2019s sister in her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/08\/business\/openais-sam-altman-denies-sex-abuse-allegations-in-sisters-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexual abuse lawsuit against the OpenAI chief executive<\/a> said Monday they are withdrawing from her case.<\/p>\n<p>In filings in St. Louis federal court, the Mahoney Law Firm and the Simon Law Firm cited \u201can unfortunate general breakdown in the attorney-client relationship\u201d between them and Annie Altman, and said continuing to represent her in the civil lawsuit was \u201cimpracticable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law firms also cited professional considerations, and circumstances of a privileged and confidential nature, and said Annie Altman is seeking new counsel. Court approval is required for the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Altman\u2019s lawyers cited \u201can unfortunate general breakdown in the attorney-client relationship\u201d  and said continuing to represent her in the civil lawsuit was \u201cimpracticable.\u201d Facebook\/Annie Altman<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman has denied his sister\u2019s accusations that he sexually abused and raped her at various times between 1997 and 2006 at the family home in suburban Clayton, Mo., starting when she was three and he was 12.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Sam Altman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Contact information for Annie Altman was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The Altman family has said Annie Altman has mental health challenges and received financial support from them.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman, now 41, said she began accusing him on social media of sexual abuse after they rejected her extortionate demand for more money.<\/p>\n<p>The Altman family has said Annie Altman has mental health challenges and received financial support from them. X\/@anniealtman108<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman, Annie Altman, Jack Altman, and Max Altman in a photo posted to Facebook in 2014.  Facebook\/Annie Altman<\/p>\n<p>He is\u00a0countersuing\u00a0his sister for defamation over her posts, including a video that said \u201can almost tech billionaire\u201d molested her, and seeking $1 in damages.<\/p>\n<p>The case is separate from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/business\/elon-musk-and-openai-ceo-sam-altman-head-to-court-in-high-stakes-showdown-over-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk\u2019s\u00a0civil lawsuit accusing OpenAI and Altman<\/a> of betraying OpenAI\u2019s original mission to benefit humanity as a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection in that case\u00a0began\u00a0on Monday in the Oakland, Calif., federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Altman is\u00a0countersuing\u00a0his sister for defamation over her posts, including a video that said \u201can almost tech billionaire\u201d molested her, and seeking $1 in damages. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman became a face of the artificial intelligence boom after the\u00a0chatbot ChatGPT was released\u00a0in 2022. He is worth $3.5 billion according to Forbes magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two law firms representing Sam Altman\u2019s sister in her sexual abuse lawsuit against the OpenAI chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[309,7602,157,370,8535,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-18897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-lawsuits","10":"tag-openai","11":"tag-sam-altman","12":"tag-sexual-abuse","13":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}