Mogul Elon Musk denies having an affair with Nicole Schbahan, who was the co-founder’s wife Google Sergey Brin, and that the relationship hastened their divorce, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
Through Twitter and in response to a question made on the same social network and commenting on information published by a newspaper, Musk he said: “Sergey and I are friends, and last night we were at a party together.”
“I only saw Nicole twice in three years, both times in the company of many other people. Nothing romantic,” he said.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter, the love affair between Musk and Shbahan ended the Tesla leader’s long friendship with the co-founder. Google.
The newspaper points out that Muskconsidered the richest person on the planet and Brinthe eighth, with a multi-million dollar fortune, admitted that for many years he regularly visited Brin at his home in Silicon Valley (California).
A friendship that extended to business when, during the 2008 economic crisis, Brin invested about $500,000 in Tesla as the luxury electric car company tried to boost its production.
Tension between Musk and Brin
Tensions between the two tycoons have escalated in recent months to the point that Brin ordered his financial advisers to sell his personal investments in the company, according to sources cited by the Washington Street Journal. Musk.
The divorce papers, filed last January, list “irreconcilable differences” between the couple as the reason for the breakup.
Always, according to the newspaper, Brin and Shbahan were separated for a year but lived together when the alleged “romance” took place in early December.
Another in the history of Elon Musk
In recent months, Musk has gained media attention not only for his business activities at the head of Tesla or the aerospace company SpaceX, but also for extravagant social media posts, a soap opera about buying Twitter, which has now landed in court for his romantic relationship.
In May, it became known that a SpaceX flight attendant accused the businessman of sexual harassment, which Musk denied, and in July it became known that the Tesla founder secretly had a pair of twins last November with Siobhan Zilis, the project manager. for her company Neuralink. (As reported by EFE)
Source: RPP
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