This post is the 7th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.
The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.
So, if you haven't read the first 6 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:
Late 2020: Sam purchases a $15.7 million ranch home in Napa, California [BI23a].
Annie, unable to afford a stable place to live, experiences a long period of housing insecurity, at times living with strangers from the Internet, sleeping on the floor, and living in numerous places with no running water or electricity.
Ellen Huet {see [BB24d]}: "{Annie} also did in-person sex work for two years. She says she didn't want to, but it was the work that she was able to fit into her unpredictable schedule of dealing with her health issues. Her lack of stable income, led to a long period of housing insecurity. At times, she lived with sex work clients, or even with strangers from the internet. Her sex work contributed to her precarious housing. She didn't have pay stubs or regular income, which limited the kind of leases she could get. It felt like this interconnected web, exactly the kind of vicious cycle that something like universal basic income tries to break." [BB24d]
Annie Altman: "If I had a security deposit in my bank account - {I} never would have lived with this man, not, not even a little bit of a chance, would I have lived with this man. There's some unhealthy sex work experiences, and I've also had very traumatizing experiences from in-person work that would not have happened if I had secure housing. I'm still in and, have been so long in, survival mode that it really shifts everything. It really shifts everything. Times when it's been really like...places...like staying just for a week and a half {somewhere} and then the floor for a week, and then someone's place for a night, and then a floor for a week - in those places of really moving that much in a short period of time, there's no - I had no energy for anything else. Really feeling a sense of helplessness and powerlessness that I have never experienced, ever." [BB24d]
More from [BB24c]:
Ellen Huet: "I'm driving through the lush green forests of Maui. Annie Altman, Sam Altman's little sister is sitting in the passenger seat. You heard from her briefly in the first episode."
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Ellen Huet: "We're taking a tour of the different places Annie has moved around in the last couple of years, driving down dirt roads to look at cabins and houses hidden behind enormous tropical plants."
Ellen Huet: "For much of the past two years, Annie hasn't been able to afford a stable place to live."
Annie Altman: "The place you just passed is one of the places I stayed at longer-term in all of the houselessness...{I spent} two months on a newly-built, {with} no running water or no electricity, house, at the far end, back, of the property."
Ellen Huet: "And I think she's an important part of Sam's story."
Annie Altman: "And at the time I had nowhere to stay and no rent money, certainly no deposit money, and barely enough room, barely enough money for rent."
Ellen Huet: "Recently, over the course of just a year, she moved twenty two times, and that's on average about twice a month. Sometimes she has stayed places for a week at a time, or even just a night or two. Some of them have been illegal rentals without running water. She says she's slept on floors and friends' houses. She stayed with strangers when she didn't have another option."
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Annie Altman: "The man who lived in the front house messaged me on Instagram, and I stayed in his kids' room the week that they weren't there, and then slept on the floor in the common room the week that the kids were there.
Annie Altman: "I was houseless. I didn't have somewhere to go."
Annie Altman: "I stayed in this cabin with the slanty roof right there for three months."
{A podcast host}: "How many different places have you lived in that didn't have running water?"
Annie: "Maybe five-ish? Five or six? I don't know."
Ellen Huet: "Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in San Francisco, her brother Sam was having a spectacular year in 2023. The success of ChatGPT had launched OpenAI into the stratosphere. Sam was named CEO of the Year by Time magazine. He spent months flying around the globe talking to world leaders about AI."
Ellen Huet: "It sounds wonderful, almost utopian. But Sam was saying on stage that everyone should have enough money, enough food, everyone should have a place to live, while his own sister was struggling with homelessness. I want to believe Sam's promises about abundance, but Annie's story complicates a lot of the things Sam has projected about the future."
January 5, 2021 -- Annie publishes A shake, tap, and stretch on her YouTube channel.
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January 19, 2021: Annie publishes the 115th episode of her podcast: 115. Communication is existential with Emma Waters
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January 26, 2021 -- Annie publishes Legs-up-the-wall-follow-along on her YouTube channel.
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February 9, 2021: Annie publishes the 118th episode of her podcast: 118. Communication is seeking inclusivity with Michael Murphy #3
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February 23, 2021: Annie publishes the 120th episode of her podcast: 120. Communication is shaped by silence with Lauren Traitz #2
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March 2, 2021: Annie publishes the 121st episode of her podcast: 121. Communication is sequencing with Jessie Wren
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March 16, 2021: Annie publishes the 123rd episode of her podcast: 123. Communication is integration with Dr. Michael Lennox
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May 4, 2021 -- Annie publishes Yogaish Flowish Rinseish on her YouTube channel.
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May 4, 2021: Annie publishes the 125th episode of her podcast: 125. The Community Offering with Brynn Kerin #3
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June 7, 2021: Annie publishes "An Open Letter To The EMDR Trauma Therapist Who Fired Me For Doing Sex Work" on her blog. [AA21c]
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July 2021: Sam purchases a $43 million estate in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii [BI23a].
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August 3, 2021: Annie publishes the 130th episode of her podcast: 130. The Community’s Health with Michelle McGregor #3
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August 10, 2021: Annie publishes the 131st episode of her podcast: 131. The Community Meal Distribution with Kris Pieper
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November 18, 2021: Annie publishes the 132nd episode of her podcast: 132. The Community Family System with Orlee Klempner #3
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December 1, 2021: Annie publishes the 133rd episode of her podcast: 133. The Community Co-Regulation with Lindsey Lockett
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In late 2021, Sam reaches out to Annie with "seemingly kind words" [AA23m] 1 year after full contact (or, equivalently, 1.5 years after the two family therapy sessions) [AA24k]. Annie writes, "We spoke on the phone three times, and through these conversations I began to suspect the offer was another attempt at control. It seemed I would never have direct ownership of the house. Also, given the nature of my PTSD flashbacks, the house felt like an unsafe place to actually heal my mind and body." [AA23m] Thus, Annie refuses Sam's offer.
Also (as it seems to me), during these phone calls, Annie tells Sam that she is doing sex work, even though she doesn't want to (i.e. she is doing so out of desperation, to survive, while burdened with various illnesses that prevent her from doing a normal job.) Sam responds: "Good." [BB24d]. (Though "A person close to Sam says that Sam remembers the conversation differently." [BB24d].)
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On November 13, 2021, Annie makes 3 posts (Tweets) to X (Twitter) -- [AA21a] and [AA21b] -- where she publicly states that she "experienced sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and technological abuse from my biological siblings, mostly Sam Altman and some from Jack Altman".
Annie also states: "I feel strongly that others have also been abused by these perpetrators {i.e. her biological siblings (brothers) Sam, Jack, and Max}."
Note: the image above -- where Annie's 3 Tweets have 252, 576, and 235 likes, respectively -- is a screenshot that I took in January 2025.
Per the Tweet shown below, it seems that, prior to early October 2023, Annie's 3 Tweets above had zero likes, retweets, or comments from other accounts (the single comment is just a reply from Annie herself.)
As noted at the beginning of this post, this post is the 7th post in a series of 11 posts that are meant to be read in order.
Now that you've read this post, you should read the 8th post ("Part 8") next:
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 8: Timeline, continued continued