- The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Elon Musk had an affair with Sergey Brin's estranged wife.
- The Tesla CEO $4 he hopes Nicole Shanahan sues The Journal over the report.
Elon Musk said Sergey Brin's estranged wife should sue The Wall Street Journal $4, and that he had just spoken to Brin this week.
$4 reported Sunday that the Tesla billionaire was involved in a brief romance last year with Nicole Shanahan, Brin's wife from whom he filed for divorce in January. Musk $4, calling it "complete bs."
In a $4 on Wednesday, the Musk suggested that Shanahan sue The Journal.
"As a 'public person', the standard to win a defamation lawsuit against a news org is almost impossible. They could say I'm Satan and the 'source' is their psychic!" Musk tweeted.
"Nicole is not a public person, so could win. I hope she sues them."
Musk $4 he spoke to Brin "yesterday" and "he says neither he nor anyone he knows has talked to WSJ."
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, which publishes The Journal, told Insider: "We are confident in our sourcing and we stand by our reporting."
Musk was responding to another tweet that cited a written statement from Bryan Freedman, Shanahan's attorney.
Freedman had told $4 and $4 in a statement: "Make no mistake, any suggestion that Nicole [Shanahan] had an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie but also defamatory."
The Journal reported that the affair began in December 2021 during Art Basel in Miami while Brin and Shanahan were separated but still living together.
The report said $4 earlier this year and begged Brin for forgiveness. Brin acknowledged the apology but wasn't "regularly" speaking with Musk, The Journal reported.
Musk has $4 about the press and the attention on his personal life. He does not appear to have sued a media publication before.
Earlier this month, $4 that he had twins last November with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neurolink, one of Musk's companies.