ELON Musk has shared a cryptic tweet about rodents after claims that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Following reports of the tryst with Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan, Musk tweeted out an article about the lemming mass suicide myth on Sunday night.
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“The dark origin of the lemming mass suicide myth …” Musk wrote in the tweet, which included a link to an article from travellemming.com.
The alleged affair reportedly prompted Brin, 48, to file for divorce earlier this year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, which revealed the alleged dalliance in a bombshell report on Sunday.
According to the media outlet, the purported affair also put an end to a long-standing friendship between the tech billionaires.
Musk, 51, is the richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $240 billion, while Brin is ranked eighth world-wide with a $95 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The men were long time friends, with Musk saying he regularly crashed at Brin’s Silicon Valley mansion.
Tensions between the two tech titans have been growing over recent months, according to the Journal’s sources.
Brin filed for divorce from Nicole Shanahan in January this year, citing “irreconcilable differences,” court records show.
The divorce filing was reportedly made just weeks after Brin learned of the brief affair.
At the time of the alleged liaison in early December Brin and his wife are said to have separated but still lived together, according to a pal of Ms. Shanahan.