Elon Musk denies report he had affair with Sergey Brin’s wife

Elon Musk denied he had an affair with Sergey Brin’s spouse, after the Wall Avenue Journal reported that the liaison led the Google co-founder to promote his investments in Musk’s firms.
Musk, the co-founder of Tesla Inc., had an alleged liaison in early December in Miami with Brin’s spouse Nicole Shanahan, the Journal mentioned, citing unidentified individuals acquainted with the matter. That ended the lengthy friendship between Musk, 51, and Brin, who helped help the electrical carmaker in the course of the 2008 monetary disaster. Brin, 48, filed for divorce from Shanahan in January.
Musk mentioned in a submit on Twitter, the place he has greater than 100 million followers, that the Journal’s story was unfaithful. Musk mentioned he has seen Brin’s spouse twice in three years, each occasions within the presence of different individuals, and there was “nothing romantic” between the pair. Musk additionally mentioned he’s nonetheless associates with Brin.

Brin had instructed his advisers to promote his private investments in Musk’s firms in latest months after studying that he had a quick affair together with his spouse, in line with the Journal.

The scale of Brin’s private investments in Musk’s firms isn’t recognized, and it’s unclear whether or not there have been any gross sales, the newspaper mentioned.

Nicole Shanahan and Sergey Brin in Mountain View, California in 2019.Musk is the world’s richest particular person with a $242 billion fortune, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Brin is the eighth-wealthiest, with a internet price of $94.6 billion.
The alleged affair is the newest in a string of revelations about Musk’s private life. Reviews earlier this 12 months mentioned he turned the daddy to twins born to a senior government at his synthetic intelligence startup Neuralink.
One other of his firms, SpaceX, paid an worker $250,000 to settle a declare she was sexually harassed by Musk in 2016, in line with Insider. Musk mentioned the accusations had been “completely unfaithful” and designed to intervene together with his acquisition of Twitter Inc., an settlement which he’s now making an attempt to exit.
Brin and Shanahan are at present negotiating a settlement, with Shanahan searching for greater than $1 billion, the Journal mentioned, regardless that there’s a prenuptial settlement.