Nicole Shanahan, the vice presidential running mate chosen by independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly walked away with more than $1 billion after divorcing her former husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Shanahan, a 38-year-old California native who worked as a lawyer in Silicon Valley before entering politics, finalized her divorce from Brin last year. It is reported that the reason for her separation from Brin was an alleged affair with Brin’s longtime friend, tech tycoon Elon Musk.
During their five-year marriage, Shanahan attended parties with other technology executives in Silicon Valley where he took recreational drugs including cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms. According to the New York Times.
According to The Times, there was strain in the couple’s marriage during the coronavirus pandemic as they struggled with their daughter’s autism diagnosis during lockdown.
In 2020, Brynn and Shanahan learned their daughter, Echo, had autism. According to the Times, Shanahan, who was diagnosed with autism, wondered whether the use of vaccines could have played a role in her daughter’s condition.
According to the New York Times, Mr. Shanahan has started going out more often without Mr. Blinn. According to the newspaper, her love of partying escalated to the point where she required an intravenous drip during a night in which she consumed so much drugs and alcohol at an event in Miami in early 2021.
Later in 2021, Shanahan attended a private party in Miami thrown by Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on the sidelines of the Art Basel festival.
According to the Times, Shanahan and Musk both took ketamine and then disappeared together for several hours.
The paper said Shanahan later told her then-husband, Brin, that she had had sex with Musk, and that she also told friends, family and advisers about the affair.
Mr. Musk denied being close to Mr. Shanahan. The news of the encounter is The story was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2022.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk knelt down at a party in early 2022 to express his remorse and ask Brin for forgiveness.
The alleged affair has caused a rift in Brin and Musk’s friendship and has reportedly led the Google co-founder to sell his shares in Tesla and other companies owned by Musk.
Musk denied that he was no longer friends with Brin, and shortly after the report was published he sent the Post a photo of the two together at a party in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Shanahan also denied the reports, telling People that she and Musk have been discussing autism treatment for their daughter.
“My career was based on academic and intellectual credibility, and I was internationally accused of cheating.” Shanahan told People magazine last year.
“To be known for your sexual acts is one of the most humiliating things you can do. It was completely debilitating.”
Two weeks after the alleged affair, Brynn and Shanahan separated, and a few months later, Brynn filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
He is the 8th richest man in the world, with a net worth of Rating by Bloomberg Billionaires Index The Times said Shanahan dragged it out for 18 months, threatening to harm himself during that time, for $148 billion.
Brin and Shanahan met at a yoga festival in July 2014, just weeks before she married her first husband, tech investor Jeremy Krantz.
A few days after Krantz and Shanahan married in August 2014, text messages between his new wife and Bryn were discovered on her cell phone, according to the Times.
Mr. Kranz then filed for an annulment just 27 days after the wedding. The newspaper said Mr. Krantz intended to allege fraud as the basis for his annulment, but Mr. Shanahan feared that his fraud claims would jeopardize his own ability as an attorney.
The paper said Shanahan had also threatened to harm Krantz during negotiations.
So Clazin agreed to a divorce on the condition that he drop his request for annulment, pay Shanahan a portion of the wedding expenses of $20,000, and remove Shanahan from Clazin’s social media accounts.
The Post reached out to Shanahan, Brin, Musk and Krantz for comment.
