Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, has filed for divorce from his wife of four years, alleging “irreconcilable disagreements” in court papers.
Brin who’s worth $93 billion, is the world’s seventh richest man, according to Insider.
The couple has been apart since December. Brin 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.’
Shanahan reportedly started seeing Brin in 2015. The two later got married on November 7, 2018, in a modest ceremony. According to court filings presented in Santa Clara County, Calif., the couple has a daughter together and has been separated since December 15, 2021.
Brin asks if he and Shanahan can have joint custody of their daughter. He’s not asking Shanahan for child support and asking that she not be awarded it either, according to Insider, who previously obtained the divorce papers.
According to Insider, the court filings “emphasize Brin and Shanahan’s desire for privacy around the proceedings, and they have mostly attempted to keep the case under seal.”
Shanahan is Brin’s second wife. 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 petitioners are co-founders of Google and one of the world’s wealthiest and best-known technology entrepreneurs. Due to the high-profile nature of their relationship, there is the potential for significant public interest in their dissolution and child custody issues,” said Brin. Written in a filing of lawyers of.
“It is a matter of great concern 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. goes,” the filing warned.
The court filing does not specify what assets Brin and Shanahan jointly own or how they will be divided. Instead, they merely confirm that something exists, the details of which are “to be determined,” according to Insider.
“All issues as to property rights or obligations of the parties shall be determined by confidential binding arbitration pursuant to a written agreement between the parties,” reads one of the court documents.
Brin is being represented in the divorce proceedings by the Bay Area law firm Hansons, Crawford, Crum Family Law Group, LLP, while Shanahan has contacted the Los Angeles-based firm Specter Law Firm, APLC, and Mayer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers, LLP. hired., according to the insider.
