Taking to Twitter, Elon Musk who additionally owns SpaceX, stated the file is absolutely baseless and that he and Sergey Brin are pals who attended a celebration collectively remaining night. He stated he had visible Shanahan simplest two times in 3 years and there has been not anything romantic among the two.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s spouse Nicole Shanahan amid reviews that the liaison led the latter to promote his investments in Musk’s groups.
Taking to Twitter, Musk who additionally owns SpaceX, stated the file is absolutely baseless and that he and Brin are pals who attended a celebration collectively remaining night. He stated he had visible Shanahan simplest two times in 3 years and there has been not anything romantic among the two.
“This is general bs. Sergey and I are pals and have been at a celebration collectively remaining night! I’ve simplest visible Nicole two times in 3 years, each instances with many different human beings around. Nothing romantic,” Musk wrote.
According to a Wall Street Journal file, Musk and Shanahan had a quick affair in early December in Miami, following which Brin, 48, filed for divorce (in January). This additionally simply ended the years-lengthy friendship among Musk, 51, and Brin, who helped assist the electrical carmaker for the duration of the 2008 economic crisis.
A Bloomberg article, bringing up the Journal, stated Brin had requested his advisers to promote his non-public investments in Musk’s groups in latest months after mastering approximately that fling.
Musk is the world’s richest individual with a $242 billion fortune, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Brin is the eighth-wealthiest, with a internet really well worth of $94.6 billion.
The affair is the trendy in a string of revelations approximately Musk’s non-public life. It turned into in advance stated that he have become the daddy to twins born to a senior government at his synthetic intelligence startup Neuralink.
Another of his groups, SpaceX, paid an employee $250,000 to settle a declare she turned into sexually pressured through Musk in 2016.
Musk has known as the accusations “absolutely untrue” and designed to intrude together along with his acquisition of Twitter Inc., an settlement which he’s now looking to exit.