Sources told the WSJ that the couple filed for divorce earlier this year, citing’irreconcilable differences’. However, Musk has now denied both the alleged affair and said he is still friends with Brin.

Sources tell the WSJ that Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together at the time. The couple’s relationship was reportedly strained due to issues related to the covid-19 lockdowns and their three-year-old daughter.

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.

After the report was published, Musk responded via Twitter, calling the story’total BS’. The billionaire exec said,’I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around.’.

Earlier this month, a report from insider revealed that Musk had twins with Shivon zillis, a top executive at his company neuralink and a former employee of Tesla. The twins were born just weeks before a surrogate gave birth to Musk and Boucher’s second child, bringing Musk’s number of known children to nine.

In May, a former SpaceX flight attendant accused the company of paying her $ 250,000 to keep quiet about an incident involving Musk. The victim claims Musk asked her for a massage, exposed himself to her, and propositioned her for sex.

A 2014 Vanity Fair report detailed Brin’s relationship with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg. He was still married to 23andMe co-creator Anne Wojcicki, and she was dating another Google executive. After Brin and Wojcicki divorced in 2015, Brin secretly got married to Shanahan in 2018.

Sources tell the WSJ that Brin and Musk had been close friends. Brin offered the musk-owned Tesla $ 500,000 in funding during the 2008 recession. Musk made Brin one of the first customers to own the model X in 2015.