Elon Musk allegedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan reports financial daily WSJ. The liason which reportedly took place during an art event in Miami led to the collapse of the friendship between the two tech titans.
Sergey Brin and Elon Musk had been close friends. Brin offered the Musk-owned Tesla $500,000 in funding during the 2008 recession, and Musk returned the favor by making Brin one of the first customers to own the Model X in 2015.
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WSJ also reports that Google co-founder Brin instructed his financial advisers to sell his investments in Musk’s companies after learning that he had an affair with his wife.
Elon Musk has been making headlines for his reported 'sexual dalliances' from fathering children which his executives asking for 'massages' from air hostesses. Brin, meanwhile, also has a reputation as he was once called “the Google playboy”.