Camilla Clark, wife since 2022 of Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, was contacted by convicted investor Jeffrey Epstein in 2012 when he was seeking financing for an adult content company aimed at women. The Wall Street Journal and The Information published extensive profiles of Clark on Friday, revealing details about her trajectory before her marriage to the executive.
Clark was born in 1979 in Reno, Nevada, and moved to San Francisco in 1999. She married at age 20 to an architect 44 years her senior, from whom she divorced three years later, and never completed a university degree. Her business career includes several failed ventures, among them an adult content company and a social diet application that later pivoted towards women's health with artificial intelligence.
Literary agent John Brockman introduced Clark to Epstein in 2011, writing that she was "getting money for a porn film focused on the female market". A year later, when Clark sought to secure financing from Epstein for her project, Epstein responded that he could not "do sex for television".
Clark met Amodei in 2014 when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. She had previously been in a relationship with Eric Schmidt, then chief executive of Google, who introduced them. Schmidt was also one of the first investors in Anthropic when Amodei and others left OpenAI to found the company.
Since then, according to US media reports, Clark has become a key private adviser and advocate for Amodei, bringing him closer to major Silicon Valley investors. Anthropic's planned public offering this autumn could make the couple one of the wealthiest in the region.