Elon Musk accused The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report of his alleged affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin being nonsense. The WSJ also responded to this, they were confident that the reports they made were true.
"We are confident in our sources, and we support our reporting," said a WSJ spokesperson.
So far, both Google and Nicole Shanahan have not spoken about responding to the WSJ report when confirmed by The Guardian.
The WSJ accusations were published as Musk faced a court battle in October over his efforts to halt his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.
The social media platform wants to force Musk to go ahead with the agreed-upon transaction that values the company at $54.20 per share. Musk left the deal this month, citing concerns over the number of bot accounts active on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Tesla revealed it had received a second subpoena from the US financial watchdog on Monday in relation to Musk's 2018 tweet about taking the company private.
The company said it received a call from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 13 and would cooperate.
Elon Musk Gives Proof Not Cheating on Sergey Brin's Wife
Elon Musk completely denied articles in the Wall Street Journal that he was having an affair with the wife of Google founder Sergey Brin. He even submitted evidence in the form of photographs.
On Twitter, Elon Musk called the Wall Street Journal article nonsense. He admitted that he had just met Sergey Brin and had only met his wife Nicole twice, and that too in front of many people.
To the New York Post, Elon Musk sent a photo of him laughing out loud and behind him is Sergey Brin. "I snapped this photo just two hours ago," Elon Musk claimed to the New York Post, which was quoted by us. In other words, Elon conveyed his relationship with Brin was fine.
"I have absolutely nothing to do with the divorce of Sergey and Nicole. I'm sure both Nicole and Sergey will confirm it," said Elon Musk.
"I've spoken to both Sergey and Nicole about this and they said it didn't come from them, so maybe it's a faulty phone," Musk quipped.
On Twitter, Elon Musk has issued several denials about the news made by the Wall Street Journal. The economic media itself has not yet given a statement regarding Elon Musk's rebuttal.
"The WSJ has so much bullshit news about me and Tesla that I can't even count. What a shame for them," Elon wrote on Twitter.
"They once wrote an article that the FBI was going to arrest me, so I called the FBI to ask what was going on and they said the WSJ article was complete nonsense," he snapped.
As reported, Sergey Brin filed for divorce from Nicole in January 2022 regarding the news that his wife had an affair with Elon in December 2021. However, Elon Musk, as mentioned above, firmly stated that the news was completely untrue.