Tue Mar 25 05:20:24 UTC 2025: ## Rippling Co-founder’s Explosive Public Accusations Against Estranged Wife Rock Silicon Valley
**Singapore/San Francisco** – A bitter divorce battle involving Prasanna Sankar, co-founder of the billion-dollar HR tech firm Rippling, has spilled onto social media, with Sankar leveling serious accusations against his estranged wife, Dhivya Sashidhar. A 2021 photo resurfaced on X (formerly Twitter) showing Sankar, Sashidhar, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman together, now serving as a stark backdrop to the unfolding drama.
Sankar alleges that Sashidhar engaged in a six-month affair and subsequently filed false police complaints against him, including accusations of domestic violence and rape. He claims Singaporean authorities fully investigated and cleared him of all charges. Further fueling the controversy, Sankar accuses Sashidhar of abducting their nine-year-old son, defying a court order mandating the child’s return to him. He has reportedly filed an international child abduction case.
The allegations emerged in a series of X posts, where Sankar detailed the alleged affair and subsequent legal battles. He claims he obtained evidence of the affair from the wife of the alleged other man, Anoop.
Sankar, a prominent Indian-origin entrepreneur who previously worked at Google and Microsoft, left Rippling in 2020 and is currently leading the decentralized social network 0xPPL. He met Sashidhar while studying computer science at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
The resurfaced photo, originally a celebratory post from November 2021 showing a dinner with Sam Altman, now adds a layer of public attention to the already high-profile legal dispute. The details of the ongoing legal proceedings remain unclear, but Sankar’s public accusations have sent shockwaves through the tech community.
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