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Elon Musk reacts to reports of affair with wife of Google co-founder

July 25, 2022
Bharat Times

Elon Musk denies media report of affair with Nicole Shanahan, wife of Google’s Sergei Brino

New Delhi:

Tesla boss Elon Musk today denied a media report alleging he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder and billionaire Sergey Brin.

“It’s total BS. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with several other people. Nothing romantic,” replied Mr. Musk. I tweeted, a report good by The Wall Street Journal, or WSJ, which stated that he allegedly had an affair with Mr. Brin’s wife, Nicole Shanahan.

The report said that Mr Musk and Mr Brin were close friends until the affair.

Mr Brin filed for divorce in January citing “irreconcilable differences” and claimed he and Ms Shanahan had separated on 15 December 2021.

The WSJ reports: “The contact with Mr Musk took place at the Art Basel event in Miami in early December 2021…Art Basel is a multi-day, annual festival that attracts wealthy attendees from around the world. At a party… According to people with knowledge of the incident, Mr. Musk got down on one knee in front of Mr. Brin and apologized for the offense.”

Mr Brin was reportedly among the first to be given a Tesla car when production began, and the Google co-founder offered Musk $500,000 to keep Tesla afloat during the global recession triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. lamps.

Several months after the alleged affair, Mr Musk broke up with his girlfriend, singer Grimes, with whom he shares two children. Not only this, a few weeks ago, several reports surfaced online, which said that Mr Musk had secretly given birth to twins in November 2021 with Shivon Zillis, an employee of Mr Musk’s company Neuralink.

Mr Musk is also embroiled in a legal battle with Twitter after he dropped a bid to buy the microblogging company.