Nicole Shanahan’s attorney went out on the street and denied that his client had an affair with Elon Musk.
“Make no mistake, any suggestion that Nicole had an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie, but also libelous,” attorney Bryan Freedman told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Musk slept with Sergey Brin’s wife, Nicole Shanahan, 33, serving as the catalyst for their divorce.
Musk, 51, later tweeted a photo of himself partying with Brin, 48, in an effort to refute the paper’s explosive claim.
Divorce negotiations between Shanahan and Brin are ongoing.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Musk slept with Sergey Brin’s wife, Nicole Shanahan, serving as the catalyst for their divorce.
Elon Musk tweeted this photo in response to a Wall Street Journal editor on Monday after the paper claimed he and Sergey Brin weren’t speaking due to Musk’s apparent affair with Brin’s wife.
Musk continued to show his irritation with The Wall Street Journal’s investigative editor on Monday, tweeting that he is trying to avoid ‘supernova’ level of attention on him in the wake of rumors that he slept with the co-founder of Google‘wife.
He tweeted a photo of himself partying with Sergey Brin on Sunday in an effort to refute the paper’s explosive claim that he slept with Brin’s wife, Nicole, and that it served as the catalyst for their divorce.
In response to investigations editor Michael Siconolfi, Musk shared the photo and length with pants and fire emojis in a playful reference to the childish saying ‘liar, liar, pants on fire’.
Shanahan is a Stanford-educated lawyer who works at the firm Bio-Echa, an investment firm that pours money into projects like bolstering ‘reproductive longevity’.
Nicole Shanahan’s attorney has come out and denied that his client had an affair with Elon Musk. Nicole is featured in the June 2021 issue of Silicon Valley magazine
the billionaire Tesla The CEO continued to lament the coverage on Monday night, tweeting: ‘The amount of attention on me has gone supernova which sucks. Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me get a lot of clicks.’
“I will do my best to stay focused on doing useful things for civilization,” he added.
The Wall Street Journal said it stood by his story, which claims that Musk and Shanahan were romantically involved at Art Basel in December last year, and that it not only cooled Musk’s friendship with Sergey, but served as the catalyst for their divorce.
“We are confident in our supply and stand by our reports,” a spokesman for the newspaper told DailyMail.com.
Musk’s photo shows him standing with Sergey and two other women. It is unclear where exactly he was taken, Musk was last seen in Mykonos last week, but his plane flew from Austin, where he lives, to San Jose on Saturday. He flew back to Austin on Sunday and landed at 11 p.m.
Musk, 51, tweeted a photo of himself partying with Sergey Brin (pictured right) on Sunday in an effort to refute the paper’s explosive claim that he slept with Brin’s wife, Nicole (pictured left), and that it was the catalyst for their relationship. divorce
Musk was responding to Michael Siconolfi’s tweet praising the newspaper’s reporters for the exclusive story that Musk now denies.
Previously, he had denied the entire Journal report, which claimed that he slept with Shanahan at Art Basel in Miami last December.
We are confident in our supply and stand by our reports’
Google founder Brin filed for divorce in January, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split.
The couple share a four-year-old daughter.
Brin has yet to comment on the Journal’s claims.
Musk, however, has been on a Twitter frenzy, accusing the newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, of releasing “hit articles” against him throughout the year.
‘WSJ should publish stories that really matter to their readers and have a solid factual basis, not random third-party rumors.
The smear attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all hamburgers for nothing. I work long hours, so there’s not a lot of time for mischief.
Musk with Brin (far right) in the early 2000s. The Wall Street Journal claimed that the ‘affair’ abruptly ended the Brins’ marriage.
Musk’s defense on Twitter: The 51-year-old repeatedly denied the allegations in the Wall Street Journal report on Monday.
Musk denied The Wall Street Journal’s report, calling it “more short-seller fud.” The billionaire claimed the paper had been running “hit articles” and “character kills” on him all year.
Sergey Brin and Nicole Shanahan are shown on Lake Como in July last year. She said in January when her divorce was announced: “I hope that Sergey and I will move forward with dignity, honesty and harmony for the sake of our son.” And we are both working for it.
Shanahan works for the firm Bia-Echo, an investment firm whose interests include “reproductive longevity and equality.”
‘None of the key people involved in these alleged misdeeds were even interviewed!’
“The real problem here is that Michael Siconolfi has no journalistic integrity.”
Siconolfi has not responded.
The article also claimed that Brin was selling all of his interests in Musk’s companies.
The pair have been friends for years, with Brin giving Musk $500,000 in 2008 to help him finance Tesla at the height of the global financial meltdown.
He also lent Musk the Google Party Plane for the Tesla CEO’s wedding to actress Talulah Riley in 2010.
Sergey and Nicole were married for four years before he filed for divorce in January. He is the eighth richest man in the world with a net worth of $95 billion.
Brin is said to have multiple interests in Musk’s many businesses, all of which he has ordered his aides to sell.
When the divorce proceedings began in January, Nicole told Puck: “I hope that Sergey and I will move forward with dignity, honesty and harmony for the sake of our son.” And we are both working towards it.’
Brin is shown in March of this year, three months after filing for divorce, looking cozy on the red carpet with an unidentified blonde at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
