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Elon Musk, last December in Berlin.

Elon Musk said on Twitter on Sunday that he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin remain friends and denied a report that he was involved in an affair with Brin’s wife, Nicole Shanahan.

Musk’s tweets came after an article in the the wall street journal cited unidentified sources and claimed he engaged in a brief affair with Shanahan. The newspaper said the affair prompted Brin to file for divorce from Shanahan earlier this year and ended the tech billionaires’ long friendship.

Musk tweeted: “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 lots of other people around. Nothing romantic.

In his article, the WSJ also said Brin asked his advisers to divest from Musk’s companies after learning about the matter. The newspaper said it was unable to determine the extent of those investments, or whether any sales had been made.

In 2008, coinciding with the Great Recession, Brin invested half a million dollars in the Tesla project. He filed for divorce from Shanahan in January after three years of marriage and one child together. The friendship between the two businessmen dates back years. In 2015, Musk gave his friend one of the first electric cars made by Tesla.

The amount of Brin’s personal investments in Musk’s businesses, whose fortune is estimated at $242 billion, is unknown. Brin is seven points behind his rival on the world’s richest list and is the eighth richest with a net worth of $94.6 billion. I

Earlier this year it emerged that in November Musk had twins with Shivon Zilis, a senior executive at his artificial intelligence company Neuralink. The birth of the twins took place a few weeks before the birth of her second child with pop star Grimes. Musk has nine (recognized) children in total.

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