What simply occurred? Elon Musk has denied studies that he had an affair with the spouse of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, ending the pair’s friendships and resulting in Brin’s divorce from Nicole Shanahan. The Tesla CEO says he’s nonetheless associates together with his fellow billionaire and that the report is predicated on “third-party random rumour.”
The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources, reported that Musk had an affair with Brin’s spouse final fall. The incident allegedly occurred in Miami on the Art Basel occasion in late December, quickly after Musk’s breakup with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, higher identified by her stage identify, Grimes.
The sources declare Brin and Shanahan have been separated on the time of the affair however nonetheless residing collectively, the results of marital issues brought on by the Covid-19 lockdowns and points associated to their three-year-old daughter. Brin cited December 15, 2021, because the date of the couple’s separation within the divorce filings.
The report additionally claims that Musk dropped to at least one knee in entrance of Brin at a celebration earlier this 12 months and apologized for the affair, begging for forgiveness. While Brin acknowledged the apology, he nonetheless is not chatting with Musk frequently.
Musk and Brin have been associates for years. The world’s richest man frequently crashed at his fellow billionaire’s house in Silicon Valley, and Brin helped Tesla with its struggles throughout the 2008 monetary disaster by handing round $500,000 to Musk.
Brin is claimed to have been promoting his private investments in Musk’s corporations over the previous couple of months, although this hasn’t been confirmed.
This is whole bs. Sergey and I are associates and have been at a celebration collectively final night time!
I’ve solely seen Nicole twice in three years, each occasions with many different folks round. Nothing romantic.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
Musk tweeted a reply to the report yesterday. “This is whole bs. Sergey and I are associates and have been at a celebration collectively final night time! I’ve solely seen Nicole twice in three years, each occasions with many different folks round. Nothing romantic.” Replying to a special tweet, Musk wrote, “Haven’t even had intercourse in ages (sigh).”
Musk is never out of the headlines lately. He’s at the moment coping with a lawsuit launched by Twitter over him strolling away from an acquisition of the platform. His private life can be underneath the highlight typically, together with the revelation that he secretly fathered twins with a prime Neuralink govt final 12 months, bringing his whole variety of youngsters to 9. He’s lengthy warned about falling beginning charges within the US and their probably devastating impact on civilization. “I imply, I’m doing my half haha,” he lately tweeted.
