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Elon Musk Responds to Report He Had Affair with Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin’s Wife

Elon Musk allegedly had an extramarital affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Sunday.

The WSJ report, citing sources familiar to those involved, claims that Musk and Shanahan had a “brief affair,” which subsequently led Brin to file for divorce earlier this year, and ended a long-standing friendship between Brin and Musk.

The outlet reported that Musk and Brin were previously longtime friends, with Brin even giving Musk $500,000 for Tesla during the 2008 financial crisis. Musk has said over the years that he “regularly crashed” at Brin’s home in Silicon Valley, the WSJ also reported.

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However, the publication’s sources reportedly said that there has been increasing tension between the two moguls and their teams following the alleged “liaison” in December 2021, with Brin requesting that his financial advisers sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.

On Sunday evening, Musk took to Twitter to deny the report, saying, “Yeah, the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers.” The Tesla CEO went on to say, “I work crazy hours, so there just isn’t much time for shenanigans. None of the key people involved in these alleged wrongdoings were even interviewed!”

Musk continued, galvanizing his supporters to call out the publication for its reporting, tweeting, “Call them out on it, I guess. WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid. WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay.”

Musk replied to a Twitter user who shared the WSJ article with a caption stating that Musk “allegedly banged Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife leading to the couple’s divorce filing” and that “the two are apparently no longer friends.”

“This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk hit back in a post on Twitter Sunday night. “I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”

The alleged affair came several months after Musk had broken up with his on-and-off girlfriend, singer Grimes, with whom he shares two children. Musk is the father of 10 children in total — including one who recently changed their name and publicly disavowed Musk.

Brin and Shanahan share a 3-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, Brin shares two children with ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, the tech entrepreneur behind 23andMe.

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