Elon Musk Reportedly Had An Affair With The Wife Of Google Co-Founder, Sergey Brin Which Promted Divorce

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has reportedly had an affair with the wife of Google founder Sergey Brin, last year in December, which was the catalyst for their divorce.

On Sunday, Friends of the pair said that Musk’s romance with Nicole Shanahan was what prompted the Google billionaire to file for divorce in January, The Wall Street Journal reported.

It’s unclear how long the romance lasted but it occurred in the same month that Musk welcomed a baby girl via a surrogate with his ex-girlfriend Grimes, and was a month after he secretly welcomed twins with a former executive from one of his companies. He started dating current girlfriend Natasha Bassett in February.

Brin, 48, the seventh richest man in the world worth an estimated $93billion, filed for divorce in January, signaling the beginning of one of the most expensive splits in Silicon Valley history.

The affair, the latest romantic scandal to befall Musk, comes amid his ongoing legal battle with Twitter which is harming the company’s bottom line but also the future of social media.

When Brin filed for divorce in January, the real reason for the divorce was not clear.

He cited irreconcilable differences in divorce papers but asked for the docket to be sealed to protect his young daughter.

The affair brought an abrupt end to Elon and Sergey’s years-long friendship; in 2008, Sergey gave $500,000 in funding to Tesla at the height of the financial crisis.

Elon has also spoken fondly of crashing at Sergey’s homes. Brin and Shanahan, 37, share a daughter, who was born in 2018.

The Google founder has asked to share custody of her as part of the divorce arrangements, which they are fighting to keep private out of fear that their daughter will be put at risk of “harassment” or “kidnapping”.

Brin is said to own multiple interests in Musk’s many businesses, all of which he has ordered his aides to sell.

When the divorce proceedings were launched in January, Nicole told Puck: “I hope for Sergey and I to move forward with dignity, honesty and harmony for the sake of our child.

“And we are both working towards that.”

She is a Stanford-educated lawyer who works at the firm Bio-Echa

He recently laughed off secretly fathering twins with Neurolink executive Shivon Zilis, tweeting that he was repopulating earth with his many offspring.

Musk has five children with his first wife, Justine; twins Griffin and Xavier (who changed her name to Vivian and now identifies as female), and triplets Kai, Damian and Saxon.

Their first baby, a boy who they named Nevada, died from SIDS in 2002 as a young baby.

In 2020, Musk and Grimes welcomed their first child together, a son who they named X AE A-XII Musk.

They split in September last year, after conceiving their second child via a surrogate.

That child was born in December but was kept secret until March this year.

Musk and his current girlfriend, 27-year-old Australian actress Natasha Bassett, were seen together in the South of France in May.

They are understood to have started dating in February.