Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the richest person on the planet, denied this Monday, providing photographs of a party, the investigation by The Wall Street Journal that accuses him of having had a brief sexual affair with his wife. Sergey Brin, co-founder of the search engine Google and eighth richest person in the world.
The newspaper assures that Brin filed for divorce in January in California from his wife, Nicole Shanahan, whom he married in 2019 and from whom he was already separated, due to "irreconcilable differences", just a few weeks after learning of his alleged romance with whom he had been a friend of the couple until then.
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Brin, who helped Musk save Tesla from the 2008 economic crisis, has divested himself of his investments in the companies of his former friend, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
Musk has an estimated fortune of $240 billion;
Brin has 95,000 million, according to the financial information service Bloomberg.
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The alleged adventure occurred in early December, according to the newspaper, at an event at the Art Basel art fair in Miami (Florida).
Musk, who by then had broken off his relationship with singer Grimes, apologized on his knees to Brin at a party, asking for her forgiveness, according to the newspaper.
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Musk responded to the newspaper with several messages on the social network Twitter: “This is total garbage, Sergey and I are friends and we were at a party last night!
I've only seen Nicole a couple of times in three years, both times with a lot of people around, nothing romantic."
The millionaire accused the newspaper of publishing "countless" pieces to harm him and Tesla's valuation on the stock market.
And he concluded by saying, "I haven't had sex in forever (sigh)."