Sergey Brin

The affair led the Google co-founder to file for divorce and end his friendship with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, The Wall Street Journal reports.

News of the alleged affair comes at a turbulent time for the Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO, who's also the wealthiest person on the planet. Earlier this month, Twitter sued Musk to complete his proposed $44 billion purchase of the social media platform after he informed Twitter he was ending the agreement to buy the company. Brin, who's worth $95 billion, also reportedly made a $500,000 investment in Tesla during the 2008 financial crisis when the carmaker was struggling with production issues.

The affair led to Brin's divorce from his wife of four years, and ended a longtime friendship between Brin and Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The reported affair is the latest scandal in recent months to plague Musk’s personal life. In May, Insider reported that Musk’s company SpaceX paid $250,000 in 2018 to settle accusations he propositioned a flight attendant working on one of the company’s private planes and exposed himself to her. $253.4 billion.

Tesla chief's liaison with Google co-founder's wife led to couple's divorce filing.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that the fling broke up the billionaires' friendship and precipitated the Google founder's divorce filing.

Then there’s the revelation this month that Musk secretly had twins last year with one of his top executives. At a party earlier this year, sources told the Journal, Musk got down on one knee and begged Brin for forgiveness. Brin and Shanahan, his second wife and mother of their 3-year-old, are now locked in divorce talks, with her seeking $1 billion of his $90 billion fortune.

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The news complicates Elon Musk's already-turbulent month for both his business and personal life. Brin filed for divorce from Shanahan in January. And we are both working towards that,” Shanahan said.

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Sergey Brin filed for divorce from estranged wife Nicole Shanahan in early January.

"Petitioner is a co-founder of Google and one of the wealthiest and most famous technology entrepreneurs in the world. Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday? The Wall Street Journal also reported that Musk has said over the years that he "regularly crashed" at Brin's home in Silicon Valley.

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The report claims the two still aren’t speaking on a frequent basis, and that Brin has told advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies. After Brin and Wojcicki divorced in 2015, Brin secretly got married to Shanahan in 2018. Musk and Shanahan’s affair allegedly occurred at the high-profile Art Basel event in Miami following Musk’s split with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, also known as Grimes. Sources tell the WSJ that Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together at the time.

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The Tesla and SpaceX founder also specifically called out the WSJ, saying they ran with the alleged affair story on "third-party random hearsay." But her lawyers say she signed the prenuptial agreement under duress while pregnant with their daughter. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!"

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Musk tweeted late Sunday he hasn't had sex "in ages (sigh)."

Musk has had at least nine children, according to the New York Times, with the most recently children publicly revealed as twins with a director at his company Neuralink. Musk’s eldest child, 18-year-old Vivian Jenna Wilson, recently changed her name and disconnected from her family over the billionaire’s anti-trans bigotry. “This is total bs,” Musk tweeted late Sunday. “Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! Brin and Musk have been friends for years and the Google co-founder even gave Musk $500,000 back in 2008 when Tesla was having financial difficulties.

Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin.

And last month, Insider reported Musk welcomed twins The Tesla and SpaceX boss is currently embroiled in a bitter legal fight Musk reportedly dropped to one knee in front of Brin at a party earlier this year to ask for forgiveness over the affair, it added.

The Tesla founder, 51, followed up his denial with claims that the publication has engaged in “character assassination” numerous times before and alleged that “ ...

Sources told the WSJ that Musk got down on one knee and begged Brin for forgiveness. Brin, 48, and Shanahan, 33, were separated but still living together at the time of the affair in December, a person close to her told WSJ. Brin, who’s worth $90 billion, filed for divorce in January, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk tweeted late Sunday of the Wall Street Journal’s report.

Elon Musk reportedly begged Google co-founder Sergey Brin for forgiveness at Art Basel in Miami Beach after allegedly having an affair with his wife.

Shanahan’s marriage to Brin was also strained at the time over problems related to COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and the care of their daughter, people familiar with the relationship told the Journal. They were separated but still living together, one person close to Shanahan told the Journal. The world’s richest man apologized to his longtime pal at a party earlier this year, people with knowledge of the stunning incident told the Wall Street Journal.

Musk has denied allegations that he had an affair with Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Brin.

Though Shanahan has publicly discussed fertility struggles in the past, she gave birth to a daughter with Brin. The Wall Street Journal wrote that there has been some conflict in regards to the couple's prenuptial agreement. "As a kid, I really had to figure out how the world works on my own," she said. Nothing romantic." Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!" Shanahan has had many titles, including entrepreneur, philanthropist and attorney. "This is total bs.