Elon Musk denies report he had affair with Sergey Brin’s spouse – Occasions of India

Elon Musk denied he had an affair with Sergey Brin’s spouse, after the Wall Road Journal reported that the liaison led the Google co-founder to promote his investments in Musk’s corporations.
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 conversant in the matter. That ended the lengthy friendship between Musk, 51, and Brin, who helped assist the electrical carmaker throughout 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 instances within the presence of different individuals, and there was “nothing romantic” between the pair. Musk additionally mentioned he’s nonetheless buddies with Brin.

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

The scale of Brin’s private investments in Musk’s corporations 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 individual with a $242 billion fortune, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Brin is the eighth-wealthiest, with a internet value of $94.6 billion.
The alleged affair is the most recent in a string of revelations about Musk’s private life. Stories earlier this 12 months mentioned he grew to become the daddy to twins born to a senior government at his synthetic intelligence startup Neuralink.
One other of his corporations, 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 “totally unfaithful” and designed to intervene along with his acquisition of Twitter Inc., an settlement which he’s now attempting to exit.
Brin and Shanahan are presently negotiating a settlement, with Shanahan in search of greater than $1 billion, the Journal mentioned, regardless that there’s a prenuptial settlement.