• Tesla CEO Elon Musk denies affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife.
• Wall Street Journal reports Brin filed for divorce from Nicole Shanahan earlier this year.
• The affair prompted Brin to file for divorce, effectively ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said late Sunday on Twitter that he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are still friends and denied a report that he had an affair with Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan.

Musk’s tweets followed a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources that said he had a brief affair with Shanahan.

According to the paper, the affair prompted Brin to file for divorce from Shanahan earlier this year, effectively ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship.

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