Sergey Brin, Google co-founder worth $94 billion files for divorce from wife
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and the world’s sixth-richest person, has filed for divorce from his three-year-long wife, becoming the third billionaire to do so in recent years.
According to court filings, Brin filed a petition for divorce of his marriage to Nicole Shanahan this month, citing “irreconcilable disagreements.” The couple, who have a three-year-old boy, requested that court documents be sealed in order to keep the specifics of their divorce confidential.
The 48-year-old American billionaire has a net worth of $94 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is mostly derived from his stakes in Google, which he co-founded with Larry Page in 1998 and later merged with Alphabet Inc. He and Page both left Alphabet in 2019, but they remain on the board of directors and are the majority shareholders.
According to the filing in Santa Clara, California, “there is likely to be significant public interest in their divorce case and any prospective child custody difficulties” because of their high-profile connection.
