Nicole Shanahan

Sergey Brin filed for divorce from estranged wife Nicole Shanahan in early January.

"Petitioner is a co-founder of Google and one of the wealthiest and most famous technology entrepreneurs in the world. Want to get the biggest stories from PEOPLE every weekday? The Wall Street Journal also reported that Musk has said over the years that he "regularly crashed" at Brin's home in Silicon Valley.

Elon Musk allegedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife, Nicole Shanahan. The WSJ reports this prompted Brin and Shanahan to file for ...

The report claims the two still aren’t speaking on a frequent basis, and that Brin has told advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies. After Brin and Wojcicki divorced in 2015, Brin secretly got married to Shanahan in 2018. Musk and Shanahan’s affair allegedly occurred at the high-profile Art Basel event in Miami following Musk’s split with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, also known as Grimes. Sources tell the WSJ that Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together at the time.

Nicole Shanahan is the estranged wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but her resumé includes much more than a four-year marriage to billionaire.

"Like many women who are not quite ready to start a family in their early 30s, I decided, or so I thought at the time, to take matters into my own hands and freeze embryos," she said. The funding also supports fertility later in life, a topic she has firsthand experience with after struggling to become pregnant in her thirties, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported. The divorce proceedings are still ongoing.