Nicole Shanahan

Google co-founder Sergey Brin instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Elon Musk's companies in recent months after learning that he had ...

Sergey Brin filed for divorce from estranged wife Nicole Shanahan in early January.

"Petitioner is a co-founder of Google and one of the wealthiest and most famous technology entrepreneurs in the world. Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday? The Wall Street Journal also reported that Musk has said over the years that he "regularly crashed" at Brin's home in Silicon Valley.

Elon Musk allegedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife, Nicole Shanahan. The WSJ reports this prompted Brin and Shanahan to file for ...

The report claims the two still aren’t speaking on a frequent basis, and that Brin has told advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies. After Brin and Wojcicki divorced in 2015, Brin secretly got married to Shanahan in 2018. Musk and Shanahan’s affair allegedly occurred at the high-profile Art Basel event in Miami following Musk’s split with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, also known as Grimes. Sources tell the WSJ that Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together at the time.

Nicole Shanahan is the estranged wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but her resumé includes much more than a four-year marriage to billionaire.

"Like many women who are not quite ready to start a family in their early 30s, I decided, or so I thought at the time, to take matters into my own hands and freeze embryos," she said. The funding also supports fertility later in life, a topic she has firsthand experience with after struggling to become pregnant in her thirties, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported. The divorce proceedings are still ongoing.

World's richest man's reported fling with Nicole Shanahan is latest chapter in a tumultuous year for his personal and professional life.

Now a proud father of nine, Mr Musk, hailed his growing brood on Twitter. Mr Musk, who said he had a “super bad feeling about the economy” said the firm needed to shed 10,000 jobs – about a tenth of the workforce – to cope. Mr Musk has also recently been accused of exposing himself to a flight attendant at his aerospace company, SpaceX, while on a flight to London, an allegation he has denied. And we are both working towards that.” According to the Wall Street Journal, the rift between the two men has manifested itself in their corporate dealings – with Mr Brin instructing his financial advisers to sell his personal stake in Mr Musk’s companies. The friendship has now unravelled, according to friends, after Musk, 51, allegedly had a brief affair with Mr Brin's wife in December last year.

Nicole Shanahan, 37, is said to have had an affair with Elon Musk at Art Basel in December of last year, which led to her impending divorce and the end of ...

They are pictured here with Larry Page in the early 2000s The affair reportedly led her husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, to file for divorce, and signaled an end to his friendship with Musk. I want it to be one of working hard, learning from one's mistakes, and of personal growth.' In her personal life, Shanahan was married to a finance executive before she met and married Brin - the eighth richest man in the world - at a yoga retreat in 2015. Nicole Shanahan, 37, grew up on food stamps with two unemployed parents before she became an entrepreneur. Just about one month later, Brin filed for divorce - listing December 15 as their date of separation.