Sergey Brin

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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Google co-founder Sergey Brin filed for divorce from his wife Nicole Shanahan after discovering she allegedly had an affair with Tesla founder Elon Musk ...

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.

While Brin acknowledged the apology, the two tech moguls and longtime friends are not currently speaking, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The month prior, November 2021, Musk quietly had twins with one of his top executives, Shivon Zilis, Insider's Julia Black reported. And we are both working towards that," Shanahan told the news website Puck earlier this month. Sources told the Journal that Brin and Shanahan were separated at the time but still living together, and had encountered difficulties tied to COVID-19 and caring for their toddler daughter.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Elon Musk's companies in recent months after learning that he had ...

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.

Elon Musk allegedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife, Nicole Shanahan. The WSJ reports this prompted Brin and Shanahan to file for ...

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.

Nicole Shanahan is the estranged wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but her resumé includes much more than a four-year marriage to billionaire.

"Like many women who are not quite ready to start a family in their early 30s, I decided, or so I thought at the time, to take matters into my own hands and freeze embryos," she said. The funding also supports fertility later in life, a topic she has firsthand experience with after struggling to become pregnant in her thirties, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported. The divorce proceedings are still ongoing.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan emerged this weekend at the center of a rift between two of the world's richest men, ...

The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk's liaison with Nicole Shanahan led Brin, a Google co-founder worth $94.6 billion, to sell his investments in ...

Reports earlier this year said he became the father to twins born to a senior executive at his artificial intelligence startup Neuralink. Musk, the co-founder of Tesla Inc., had an alleged liaison in early December in Miami with Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan, the Journal said, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. Brin had instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies in recent months after learning that he had a brief affair with his wife, according to the Journal.

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.