Musk had affair with Google co-founder's spouse, says report. Tesla CEO hits again | World News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s spouse Nicole Shanahan amid stories that the liaison led the latter to promote his investments in Musk’s corporations.

Taking to Twitter, Musk who additionally owns SpaceX, stated the report is totally baseless and that he and Brin are buddies who attended a celebration collectively final night time. He stated he had seen Shanahan solely twice in three years and there was nothing romantic between the 2.

“That is complete bs. Sergey and I are buddies and have been at a celebration collectively final night time! I’ve solely seen Nicole twice in three years, each occasions with many different individuals round. Nothing romantic,” Musk wrote.

In accordance with a Wall Avenue Journal report, 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-long friendship between Musk, 51, and Brin, who helped assist the electrical carmaker throughout the 2008 monetary disaster.

A Bloomberg article, citing the Journal, stated Brin had requested his advisers to promote his private investments in Musk’s corporations in latest months after studying about that fling.

Musk is the world’s richest particular person with a $242 billion fortune, based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Brin is the eighth-wealthiest, with a internet price of $94.6 billion.

The affair is the newest in a string of revelations about Musk’s private life. It was earlier reported that he grew to become the daddy to twins born to a senior government at his synthetic intelligence startup Neuralink.

One other of his corporations, SpaceX, paid an worker $250,000 to settle a declare she was sexually harassed by Musk in 2016.

Musk has known as the accusations “totally unfaithful” and designed to intrude together with his acquisition of Twitter Inc., an settlement which he’s now making an attempt to exit.

(With inputs from companies)