Musk denies alleged affair with Google co-founder's spouse

Elon Musk denied a report on Sunday that he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the spouse of Google co-founder Sergey Brinn.

The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX referred to as the Wall Avenue Journel report "whole bs," and he referred to as on the newspaper to run tales that "really matter." The report is the most recent in a string of scandals which have plagued Musk since he introduced his intention to buy the social media platform Twitter, a deal he's within the strategy of backing out of.

"That is whole bs. Sergey and I are mates and had been at a celebration collectively final evening! I’ve solely seen Nicole twice in three years, each instances with many different individuals round. Nothing romantic," Musk mentioned in a tweet revealed on Sunday.

ELON MUSK ALLEGEDLY HAD AFFAIR WITH GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER'S WIFE: REPORT

The report on Sunday alleged that Musk, 51, had an affair with Shanahan finally 12 months's Artwork Basel competition in Miami, shortly after Musk's cut up from his girlfriend Grimes, and whereas Brinn and Shanahan had been separated however nonetheless dwelling collectively.

The alleged tryst ended a yearslong friendship between Brinn and Musk, in line with the report, which claims Musk received on one knee at a celebration earlier this 12 months to apologize and beg for forgiveness. Brinn acknowledged the apology, however the two tech moguls now not converse often to one another, in line with the report. The report claims Brin filed for divorce a number of weeks after studying of the affair.

Musk blasted the Wall Avenue Journal on Sunday for operating the story, which he says is predicated on "third-party random rumour."

"WSJ is meant to have a excessive normal for journalism and, proper now, they're means sub tabloid. WSJ must be operating tales that truly matter to their readers and have stable factual foundation, not third-party random rumour," Musk tweeted on Sunday, including that readers ought to "name them out on it."

In a separate tweet on Sunday, Musk mentioned that the "character assassination assaults have reached a brand new degree this 12 months," however he claimed that the uptick in salacious tales involving him are "all nothing-burgers"

"I work loopy hours, so there simply isn’t a lot time for shenanigans. Not one of the key individuals concerned in these alleged wrongdoings had been even interviewed!" Musk tweeted.

A latest Enterprise Insider report discovered that Musk secretly had twins with Neurolink government Shivon Zillis.

In Could, Enterprise Insider additionally reported that a flight attendant acquired a $250,000 settlement from SpaceX over allegations that on a flight in 2016 Musk uncovered his erect penis, rubbed the flight attendant's leg with out permission, and tried to bribe the flight attendant into performing a sexual therapeutic massage in alternate for a horse.

Musk denied the allegations, calling the story a "hit worth [sic]" meant to "intervene with the Twitter acquisition."

Musk warned previous to the discharge of the story alleging the encounter with the flight attendant that "political assaults on me will escalate dramatically in coming months," referencing his $44 billion tried takeover of Twitter.

Musk gave discover earlier this month that he's searching for to terminate the acquisition, simply three months after the deal was introduced. The world's richest man accused Twitter of misrepresenting the variety of spam bots on its platform.