Elon Musk allegedly experienced affair with Google co-founder's spouse: Report

Brady Knox

July 24, 02:34 PM July 24, 02:34 PM

Tech mogul Elon Musk allegedly experienced an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, ending their yearslong friendship, in accordance to a report.

The alleged affair took place last 12 months at the Art Basel competition in Miami, soon right after Musk's split from his girlfriend Grimes, resources instructed the Wall Road Journal, introducing that Musk acquired on one particular knee at a bash before this yr to apologize and beg for forgiveness.

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Brin acknowledged the apology, but the former close friends are not talking routinely to every single other, for every the sources cited in the report printed on Sunday.

Brin is in divorce proceedings with Nicole Shanahan, citing "irreconcilable distinctions" in a court submitting. The new report claims Brin filed for divorce numerous months soon after mastering of the affair. The two experienced been married for practically four years and have just one daughter together.

Musk and Brin were being longtime close friends prior to the affair. Musk stated he made use of to crash at Brin's Silicon Valley household for a long time. Brin gave Musk's electrical car company Tesla $500,000 through the 2008 monetary crisis. He also had significant investments in Tesla but has due to the fact questioned his fiscal advisers to provide them off, according to the Wall Road Journal.

A lawyer for Brin declined to remark, the report pointed out, even though Musk and a consultant for Shanahan did not reply to requests searching for remark as of push time. The Washington Examiner also attained out to Tesla and Brin for comment.

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The two billionaires are regarded as two of the 10 richest individuals on Earth, with Musk getting the richest at a net worthy of of $253.4 billion, according to Forbes. Brin is 10th on the record, with $89.9 billion.

Musk's private lifestyle has received escalating general public scrutiny in the latest months amid his community struggle with a Twitter acquisition he is now seeking to close. A recent Organization Insider report found that Musk secretly had twins with Neurolink executive Shivon Zillis.