Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied on Twitter that he had any affair with Nicole Shanahan, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Elon Musk’s tweets came after Wall Street Journal published a new claiming Musk had engaged in a brief affair with Nicole Shanahan.
The newspaper said the affair influenced Google co-founder, Brin to file for divorce from Shanahan earlier this year, ending billionaires’ long friendship.
Musk tweeted: “Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”
Tesla and Google, whose parent company is Alphabet Inc, did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comments outside regular business hours.
Brin filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences,” the Journal said, quoting records it said were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Reuters wasn’t able to determine independently whether divorce papers have been filed.
In its report, the WSJ also said Brin instructed his advisers to sell personal investments in Musk’s companies after he came to know about the affair.
The paper said it wasn’t able to determine how large those investments were, nor whether any sales were made.
