NEW DELHI: Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the amount of attention on him has gone supernova but he will try to do his best to keep his heads down and will focus on doing useful things for civilization.
"The amount of attention on me has gone supernova, which super sucks. Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks. Will try my best to be heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization," the Tesla CEO said in a tweet.
Earlier, in a tweet, Musk had denied a report that he had been involved in an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan.
Musk's tweets came after a Wall Street Journal report that cited unidentified sources saying he had engaged in a brief affair with Shanahan. The paper said the affair prompted Brin's to file for divorce from Shanahan earlier this year and ended the tech billionaires' long friendship.
Dismissing the report, Musk tweeted, "Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I've only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic."
Brin filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences," the Journal said, quoting records it said were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
In its report, the WSJ also said Brin instructed his advisers to sell personal investments in Musk's companies after he came to know about the affair. The paper said it wasn't able to determine how large those investments were, nor whether any sales were made.
(With inputs from agencies)
