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    Google co-founder Brin is getting divorced again, with $94 billion in assets divided into focus

    After the divorces of tech giants Jeff Bezos (net worth $137 billion at the time), Bill Gates (net worth $145 billion at the time), and Elon Musk, it ranked No. 1 in the world with a net worth of $94 billion Sergey Brin of the Big Six may have yet another most expensive divorce.
    The exact amount of property that Brin and Shanahan will divide is unknown. For now, the record holder for the most expensive divorce is Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos. After the divorce, MacKenzie Bezos earned $38 billion, making her the third-richest woman in the world at the time.
    On June 17, local time, foreign media Insider said that legal documents revealed details of the divorce between Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his second wife Nicole Shanahan.
    According to legal documents in the Santa Clara Superior Court of the United States, on January 4 this year, Brin filed for divorce on the grounds of "irreconcilable differences" between the two, before they got married (November 7, 2018) The past three and a half years. More specifically, their separation began on December 15, 2021.
    Brin, now 48, has a fortune of $94 billion, mostly from his Google holdings, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page and later formed the holding parent company Alphabet. Brin's fortune was around $47.5 billion when he married Shanahan in 2018. Although both Brin and Page left Alphabet in 2019, they remain on the board and are major shareholders.
    "The applicant in this case is a co-founder of Google and one of the richest and most famous entrepreneurs in the world. Due to the high-profile nature of their relationship, their divorce and child custody issues could be of significant public interest." Brin "It is a matter of great concern that revealing details of their daily whereabouts to the public could put their minor children at risk of danger, harassment and even kidnapping," their lawyers wrote in a filing.
    According to the insider, the court filing "underscores Brin and Shanahan's desire to keep the proceedings under wraps as they try to seal much of the case." Brin and Shanahan have a 3-year-old child and have now allegedly done A number of arrangements have been made, including the above-mentioned confidentiality of the details of the divorce and a request for the court to seal up the relevant documents.
    A court document reads: "All questions regarding the property rights or obligations of the parties will be determined through binding, confidential arbitration based on a written agreement between the parties. Brin and Shanahan likely signed a prenup, said Monica Mazzei, a partner at law firm Sideman & Bancroft LLP.
    According to public information, Shanahan's mother is Chinese and married his Irish father after immigrating to the United States. When Shanahan was 9 years old, his father was diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia, his mother was unemployed, and the family income mainly depended on government and social welfare subsidies in the United States. Shanahan received a bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 2007, majoring in Asian Studies, minoring in economics and Mandarin. After graduation, Shanahan worked as a legal assistant in a California law firm and patent-related companies. Since then, in 2013, Shanahan has studied global intellectual property trade and Chinese law at the National University of Singapore, and also established an automated patent management and valuation company, ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to help creators and owners of intelligent assets effectively develop, manage and Trade in patent-protected technology.
    In 2014, Shanahan received his Ph.D. in High Technology Law, Intellectual Property and Litigation Law from Santa Clara University School of Law, and in the same year he became a Fellow of CodeX, Stanford University's legal information center, based on his experience in the technology and legal industries.
    Brin was born into a Jewish family in the former Soviet Union in 1973 and immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was 6 years old. His father was a math professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Brin first studied mathematics at his father's university, and later he was admitted to Stanford University, where he founded Google (Google) with Stanford alumni Page. Brin and Shanahan began dating in 2015 and married in 2018.
    Brin and ex-wife Anne Wojcicki

    Brin and ex-wife Anne Wojcicki

    Brin's first marriage began in 2007 with his ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genomics company, and Susan Wojcicki, CEO of Google's video business YouTube. Brin and Wojcicki's marriage ended in 2015 after Brin cheated on Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg.
    The password "OKGlass" for Google Glass was invented by Rosenberg. A week after the password was proposed, Rosenberg became the marketing manager of Google Glass. Rosenberg also had a boyfriend at Google at the time, Hugo Barra, then vice president of Android product management at Google, and a former president of Xiaomi.
    Amanda Rosenberg (mixed Chinese and English, father is British, mother is from Hong Kong, China)

    Amanda Rosenberg (mixed Chinese and English, father is British, mother is from Hong Kong, China)

    According to Vanity Fair, Wojcicki discovered Brin and Rosenberg's cheating emails sometime in late 2012 or early 2013. Shortly thereafter, Hugo Barra left Google to join Xiaomi, and Rosenberg became the object of abuse by netizens, and later left Google. In 2019, Rosenberg said in an interview with the Daily Mail about this past, "In this kind of thing, most of the men are teased first, and it is also the men who are protected at the end."
    The outside world has been speculating about the reasons for Brin's second divorce, but Google, Brin and Shanahan have not responded to media inquiries, and the specific details have not been disclosed.

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