Google co-founder finalizes divorce after wife’s alleged affair with Elon Musk. Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, and Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer and businesswoman, quietly finalized their divorce following claims that she had an affair with billionaire Elon Musk, according to Page Six.
According to court records, the couple’s divorce was officially announced on May 26. Physical and legal custody of their 4-year-old daughter will now be shared.
Despite the fact that Mr. Shanahan did not object to the divorce, she requested spousal support, according to the court documents.
In a private arbitration, they also resolved other issues like the payment of solicitors’ fees and the division of property.
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Notably, Mr. Brin and Nicole Shanahan began dating in 2015, the same year that his divorce from his first wife, Anne Wojcicki, was finalized.
Google co-founder finalizes divorce after wife’s alleged affair with Elon Musk, check the Tweet:
This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!
I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
They later got married in 2018, as reported by Business Insider.
However, they split in 2021 and started living separately, after which Mr. Brin filed for divorce in 2022, citing ”irreconcilable difference”. As per the New York Post, he filed for divorce about a month after his wife allegedly had a brief affair with Elon Musk, with whom he had been friends for years. However, both Mr Musk and Ms Shanahan denied their alleged affair.
”Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night. I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic, ” he wrote on X, on July 25, 2022, in response to a Wall Street Journal article titled”Elon Musk’s Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair”.
Meanwhile, Ms. Shanahan called the scandal ”utterly debilitating”. She insisted that she was never even more than friends with Mr Musk.
”Did Elon and I have sex, like it was a moment of passion, and then it was over? No. Did we have a romantic relationship? No. We didn’t have an affair,” she claimed in July. However, the Wall Street Journal said that they are ”confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting.”
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the 50-year-old co-founder of Google is the ninth richest person in the world with a net worth of $118 billion. According to her Linkedin profile, Ms. Shanahan, 34, is an attorney based in California and the founder and president of the Bia-Echo Foundation.
