Elon Musk broke an old friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin after reportedly having an affair with his wife, Nicole Shanahan. wall street journal, Sources familiar with the situation told WSJ That couple filed for divorce earlier this year citing “irreconcilable differences”.
Musk and Shanahan’s affair reportedly took place at the high-profile Art Basel event in Miami after Musk split with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, also known as Grimes. the sources tell WSJ That Brin and Shanahan had separated but were still living together at the time. The couple’s relationship was reportedly strained due to the COVID-19 lockdown and issues related to their three-year-old daughter.
Musk’s personal life has never been far from his business, and that hasn’t changed even as the world’s richest man tries to walk out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Earlier this month, a report of insider revealed that Musk had twins with Shivon Zillis, a top executive at his company Neuralink, and a former Tesla employee. The twins were born a few weeks before a surrogate gave birth to Musk and Boucher’s second child, bringing Musk’s known number of children to nine.
In May, a former SpaceX flight attendant accused the company of paying $250,000 to keep quiet about an incident involving Musk. The victim claims that Musk asked her for a massage, exposed himself in front of her and proposed to her for sex.
Meanwhile, Brin was called a “Google Playboy” for having sex with employees, with human resources manager Heather Cairns calling his behavior “a sexual harassment claim waiting to happen”. A 2014 Vanity Fair The report detailed Brin’s relationship with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg, which happened when he was married to 23andMe co-creator Anne Wojcicki, and she was dating another Google executive. After Brin and Wojcicki divorced in 2015, Brin secretly married Shanahan in 2018. According to WSJShanahan is seeking a more than $1 billion piece of Brin’s nearly $100 billion estate as part of the divorce process.
As reported in the report, Brin and Musk were close friends. During the 2008 recession, Brin offered Musk-owned Tesla $500,000 in funding, and Musk returned the favor in 2015 by making Brin one of the Model X’s first customers. the sources tell WSJ Musk got down on one knee during a party earlier this year and begged Brin for forgiveness. The report claimed the two are still not in constant talks, and that Brin has asked advisors to sell off their personal investments in Musk’s companies.