Vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan’s first marriage officially lasted just 27 days according to her divorce settlement obtained by DailyMail.com.
The 38-year-old Bay Area lawyer and businessman was chosen last week by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to be his number two on the ticket.
Before entering politics, Shanahan was known for being the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and for a Wall Street Journal story alleging she cheated on Brin with Elon Musk, something both she and Musk have denied.
Several weeks after meeting Brin in July 2014 at the Wanderlust yoga festival in Lake Tahoe, she married her fiancé, Bay Area investor Jeremy Kranz, on August 31, 2014.
Kranz filed for separation on September 26, 2014, just 27 days later.
Vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan (right) and her first husband Jeremy Kranz (left) on vacation in 2013. As part of their divorce settlement, after being legally married for just 27 days, he asked her to delete all the photos of him and his family from social media websites.
Jeremy Kranz separated from Nicole Shanahan after just 27 days of marriage and filed a ‘Petition for Annulment’ – an annulment in California legal parlance – alleging that ‘fraud’ had occurred in the relationship.
Nicole Shanahan (center left) and her current partner Jacob Strumwasser (left) at the announcement last week in her hometown of Oakland, California, that she would be (center right) Robert F. Kennedy’s running mate. Kennedy poses with his wife, actress Cheryl Hines (right)
Shanahan’s first husband initially filed a “Petition for Annulment” – an annulment in California legal parlance – alleging that “fraud” had occurred in the relationship.
While the documents do not reveal what motivated Kranz’s decision to end the relationship in this way, there was fraud in California.It should be very serious and about something that goes to the heart of your marriage,” he said. California Courts Website.
The website also defines fraud as “the other person lied to you or hid something from you to get you to marry them.”
That December, in response, Shanahan submitted that she wanted the breakup to be considered a “dissolution” of the marriage, and the divorce agreement stated that Kranz “agreed to allow this matter to proceed as a dissolution in order to preserve the wife’s ability to live.” . practice law.’
In doing so, Shanahan waived the terms set forth in their prenuptial agreement, including receiving a BMW or Honda CRV and receiving spousal support and other rights and benefits.
He would retain control of the company he founded as a law student, ClearAccessIP, his Toyota Prius and a Yorkshire Terrier dog.
As part of the divorce settlement, which dates back to February 26, 2015, Shanahan also agreed to delete photos of Kranz and her family members from her Facebook account and other social media websites.
“The wife will immediately remove all photographs of the husband and/or the husband’s family from Facebook and all other social media websites,” the divorce agreement said.
The couple finally divorced in April 2015.
Kennedy’s campaign did not dispute the brief marriage in a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘The divorce was resolved by mutual agreement as a dissolution. Mrs. Shanahan and her first husband met when she was 23 and were together for 4 years, including a two-year engagement,” said Link Lauren, a senior adviser to the Kennedy campaign. “As everyone can understand, some Relationships aren’t meant to be like that.”
Kranz did not respond to several attempts to reach him.
Nicole Shanahan (left) poses with her second husband Sergey Brin (right), the billionaire co-founder of Google, at an event in 2016, while they were dating.
Nicole Shanahan (left) and Sergey Brin (right) in New York City in 2016
In a profile in People magazine Shanahan said she started dating Brin in 2015.
‘We fell in love at Stanford, wandering around campus and talking about quantum physics,’ he told the magazine in July 2023. ‘He showed me the areas he frequented when he was there as a master’s student and where he created ‘Google with Larry Page!’
“I was living in a fairy tale. He was magical. So it seemed like we could really solve a lot of the world’s problems with technology,” she said.
Brin and Shanahan quietly tied the knot in 2018 and kept their nuptials a secret until 2019, after the birth of their daughter Echo.
In the 2023 People interview, he talked about how he never got used to being among the mega-rich.
“When I was living as the wife of a billionaire, I wasn’t the best version of myself,” she reflected. “I felt conflicted every day, like I couldn’t access the thing that made me who I am.”
Nicole Shanahan (right) and her ex Sergey Brin on a red carpet in Los Angeles in 2021
“I couldn’t access that 5-year-old girl who had to figure out how to turn a 30-year-old baseball glove into something she could go to softball with,” he said. “I was the girl who had endless optimism and tenacity and that fight, because I’m a fighter, and I didn’t know how to change the subject. I tried for years. I looked around for examples of how I could adapt to this new style of life.’
The couple separated in 2021, Brin filed for divorce in June 2022, and then in July 2022, she became an object of public fascination.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Shanahan and Musk had a brief affair that led Brin to file for divorce earlier that year and the two billionaires to end their long friendship.
Both Shanahan and Musk have vehemently denied that they were ever romantic, while the Wall Street Journal continues to support the report.
Shanahan told People that she and Musk had a conversation about autism, after Echo was diagnosed as being on the spectrum, and then she was “internationally shamed for being a cheater.”
‘Elon and I had sex, like it was a moment of passion, and then it was over? No,’ she said. ‘Did we have a romantic relationship? No. We didn’t have any adventures.
It’s unclear exactly how much Shanahan took away from the split, as the couple reportedly owned a huge estate in Malibu, formerly owned by singer Pink, a penthouse in Manhattan, and several properties in Silicon Valley. and a 240-foot superyacht called Dragonfly.
Shanahan met Jacob Strumwasser at Burning Man during the summer of 2022 and held a ‘love ceremony’ in May.
In the midst of her divorce from Brin and as Google search results for Shanahan’s name continued to link her romantically to Musk, the Bay Area lawyer went to Burning Man and met her current partner, Jacob Strumwasser, through a friend.
“It seems like we were living parallel lives in surfing, and then we met at Burning Man, which is the driest place on the planet, and we talked about how much we missed surfing,” he told People in July. “I feel very lucky, it’s lovely.”
In May they held a ‘love ceremony’ instead of a traditional wedding.
‘There is a beach that he and I are very connected to, where we surfed independently many times before we met and then surfed together on an early date,” he said. “We fell in love with surfing there and did a love blessing ceremony with water that we collected from that beach.”
They then headed to their property in Southern California.
“It was spontaneous with some friends,” she told People. ‘We didn’t know who would end up there, but we had a handful of friends and a friend who believes in water magic gave us a water blessing. It was beautiful.’