Google co-founder Sergey Brin who’s worth $93 billion files for divorce from wife after four years

 

Co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin has filed for divorce from his wife of four years, alleging “irreconcilable disagreements” in court papers. 

The couple has been separated since December. 

According to Insider, the world’s seventh richest man, worth $93 billion, discreetly filed for divorce from lawyer and businesswoman Nicole Shanahan in January. 

Papers filed by the billionaire businessman claim that specifics of the couple’s assets and how they would be distributed ‘are to be established.’

Brin has asked that he and Shanahan have joint custody of their daughter.

He is not seeking child support from Shanahan, and is asking that she is not awarded it, either. 

According to Insider, the court filings “emphasize Brin and Shanahan’s desire for secrecy around the proceedings, and they have attempted to have much of the case placed under seal.” 

"Petitioner is a co-founder of Google and one of the wealthiest and most famous technology entrepreneurs in the world. Because of the high-profile nature of their relationship, there is likely to be significant public interest in their dissolution and child custody issues,” a filing from Brin’s lawyers reads. 

"Of great concern is that such publicity puts their minor child at risk of danger, harassment, and even kidnapping, if the specifics of their day-to-day whereabouts are exposed to the public,” the filing warned.

Brin’s divorce from Shanahan is his second; the Stanford-educated computer tycoon divorced his first wife, businesswoman Anne Wojcicki, with whom he had two children, in 2015.

The software billionaire and Shanahan, who started dating in 2015 shortly after his first divorce was finalized, married in secret on November 7, 2018, and only revealed the news to the world in October of the following year. 

Brin and Shanahan made their romance public in 2016.