Elon Musk, an American businessman, refuted The Wall Street Journal’s assertion that he had an affair with Sergey Brin’s wife.

On July 25, Musk said on Twitter, “Sergii and I are pals, and we were at a party together last night,” according to Insider Paper. The previous day, the WSJ reported that Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, had divorced his wife Nicole Shanahan over her brief liaison with Elon Musk.

The affair, according to the newspaper, occurred in the fall of 2021 and ended the billionaires’ friendship in technology. Breen started the year by requesting a divorce.

The marriage of Brin and Shanahan, the CEO of the patent firm ClearAccessIP, was made public in October 2019. It was made clear that the marriage followed a two-year courtship for the pair.

Prior to that, they had a daughter 2018, who became the business owner’s third child. He was formerly married to American entrepreneur Ann Wojcicki, from whom he divorced her in 2015 after eight years of marriage, and they have two children together.