One of the founders of Google got divorced because his ex cheated on him with Elon Musk

co-founder of Google, Sergey Briindivorced his wife, Nicole Shanahan, earlier this year, but it is only now that what caused the breakup has come to light.

Brin allegedly made that decision after learning that Shanahan had had a brief love affair late last fall with tycoon Elon Musk, the newspaper reported today. The Wall Street newspaper.

The newspaper, which cites experts on the subject, He also indicated that the romance between Musk and Shanahan ended the long friendship the Tesla leader had with the Google co-founder.

The story of the love that betrays Sergey Brin

The newspaper recalls that Musk, considered the richest person on the planet and Brin, the eighth, with multimillion-dollar fortunesacknowledged that for years she has been visiting Brin regularly at her home in California’s Silicon Valley.

A friendship that extended to the business world when, during the 2008 economic crisis, Brin contributed around $ 500,000 to Tesla.a time when the luxury electric vehicle company was looking to ramp up its production.

According to sources cited by the Washington Street Journal, tensions between the two tycoons have increased in recent months, to the point that Brin ordered his financial advisors to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.

Divorce court documents filed last January cite “irreconcilable differences” between the couple as the reason for the split.

Also according to the newspaper, Brin and Shanahan had been separated for a year but were living together when the alleged “Affair” took place in early December.

Another scandal in the life of Elon Musk

In recent months, Musk has attracted media attention not only for his commercial activities at the head of Tesla or the aerospace company SpaceX.if not also for his extravagant messages on social media, the Twitter purchase soap opera which, for the moment, has ended up in court and for his romantic relationships.

In May it was learned that a SpaceX flight attendant had sued the businessman for sexual harassment, which Musk denied and in July it was learned that the Tesla founder secretly had a pair of twins in November last year with Shivon Zilis, project supervisor for his company Neuralink.

Sergey Brin and his career at Google

Sergey Briin He was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia, where he spent his early childhood until, in 1979, his family moved from Moscow to the United States, where he trained as a computer scientist.

Brin and Larry Page founded the Google search engine in 1998, which quickly became one of the most powerful companies in the world.. In 2019, they both left their roles at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which includes the search engine and the rest of the company’s business.

In any case, both are still shareholders, directors and members of the board of directors of the company, which is now headed by the Indian Sundar Pichai, the current CEO.

Source / EFE Agency