Billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s romantic life has been highly publicized, but the latest “exclusive” from The Wall Street Journal left the entrepreneur calling ‘total bs” on a supposed dalliance as he slammed the outlet as “sub tabloid.”
On Sunday, the New York City-based newspaper that brags about its “award winning journalism” gambled its reputation on “people familiar with the matter” to report on an alleged marriage-ending affair between Musk and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife, Nicole Shanahan. Tesla’s top man wouldn’t let it go unchecked, especially as he considers Brin a friend, and he took to Twitter to issue his denial.
“This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic,” Musk wrote in reaction to the article’s posting.
This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!
I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
The article claimed the affair took place in December while attending Art Basel Miami, an annual art show, leading to Brin filing for divorce from Shanahan in January after four years of marriage with one child.
Nicole Shanahan is her name. pic.twitter.com/xhFo9loGhp
— Nicole (@Kosherart) July 24, 2022
WSJ opened the piece, “Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship,” before stipulating, “according to people familiar with the matter.”
They even went on to claim that the billionaire got down on one knee to beg Brin for forgiveness over the affair with sham testimony worthy of the Jan. 6 committee.
When asked by some of his followers if there was anything they could do, Musk replied, “Call them out on it, I guess. WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid. WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay.”
Call them out on it, I guess. WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid.
WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
Adding further weight to his denial, the twice married, twice divorced, father of nine children with three separate women made a public admission to being in the midst of a prolonged break from intimacies, or as he put it, “Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh)”
Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh)
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
If there was any doubt that Musk would shy from tackling his private affairs publicly, the billionaire recently owned up to the allegation that he had in fact fathered “previously unknown” twins with Shivon Zilis, one of his top executives, by posting “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
Elon Musk drops epic response after it’s revealed he fathered twins last year with top exec https://t.co/AUtvzb50Lx
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) July 7, 2022
This appeared to be just another day in the public eye for the entrepreneur as he turned the allegations back on the newspaper, shaming them for their patterned behavior of tabloid-worthy hit jobs.
“WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly. They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. Just more shortseller fud.”
WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly.
They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs.
Just more shortseller fud.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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