Ann Altman filed a lawsuit against her brother Sam Altman, alleging sexual abuse during her childhood. The lawsuit states the abuse occurred from 1997 to 2006, causing physical and psychological trauma. Sam Altman and his family deny the allegations.
filed a lawsuit in a Missouri federal court on Monday accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The suit, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, said that the abuse occurred in the Altmans’ family home outside St Louis from 1997 to 2006, and started when Ann Altman was three years old.
The lawsuit said Altman had sustained bodily injury and had “experienced PTSD, severe emotional distress, mental anguish and depression, which is expected to continue into the future”, as a result of the abuse. Altman has long made similar sexual assault claims against her brother on social media platforms such as X. She is represented by an Illinois-based law firm that specialises in sexual assault and harassment cases. In a statement posted to X on Tuesday, Sam Altman, along with his mother and two younger brothers, denied the claims. “Annie has made deeply hurtful and entirely untrue claims about our family, and especially Sam,” the statement said. “This situation causes immense pain to our entire family.” The statement said that Ann Altman had “mental health challenges” and “refuses conventional treatment and lashes out at family members who are genuinely trying to help”.in late 2022, Sam Altman has gained widespread fame as the face of the global artificial intelligence boom set off by the chatbot, which can answer questions, write poetry and even generate computer programs. In October, OpenAI completed a new funding deal that valued the company at $US157 billion ($253 billion).Ann Altman’s lawsuit requests a jury trial and damages in excess of $US75,000. Her lawyer, Ryan Mahoney, said in an interview with thethat the amount was the minimum required for a federal suit of this kind. He said that if the suit proceeded to a jury trial, he and his client would seek “an amount that fully compensates my client for what happened to her”
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