Robert F. Kennedy Jr may have chosen lawyer and technology entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential running mate, Mediate reported last week.
The outlet reported Friday that websites with both the names RFK and Shanahan had been registered by campaign senior adviser Link Lipsitz.
Shanahan, 38, was first linked to RFK after it was reported that she donated $4 million to a Super PAC that paid for the controversial candidate’s Super Bowl ad, which featured throwback footage from his uncle JFK’s campaign 1960 were used.
The former technology lawyer donated the maximum $6,600 to Kennedy earlier in 2022 and told the New York Times she agreed with him on issues such as vaccines and environmental health.
The 38-year-old was once married to billionaire Google founder Sergey Brin, but the marriage ended in 2022 after she reportedly had an affair with Elon Musk, although both have denied the allegations.
Lawyer and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan grew up in poverty and became a tech lawyer
The 38-year-old was once married to Google founder Sergey Brin, but the marriage ended in 2022
According to reports, Robert F. Kennedy may have chosen Shanahan as his vice presidential running mate
Shanahan has previously paid large sums to Democratic candidates and donated $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund for his 2020 campaign.
She grew up in poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, living on food stamps and trying to help her two unemployed parents financially.
In an interview with Modern luxury magazineShanahan talked about the struggles she faced as a child and how they led her to become self-employed.
“As a child, I really had to figure out for myself how the world works,” she said, explaining how her father was diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia when she was young, and her mother was a Chinese immigrant who lived in America. tried to save. .
“I had two unemployed parents for most of my childhood, so not only was there no money, but almost no parental guidance,” she explained.
“As you can imagine, with a mentally ill father there was a lot of chaos and fear.”
So, she said, she learned to make it on her own, bussing tables at the age of 12 and using the newfound Internet to help her succeed and apply for college and a job.
“I learned how to compete in a very creative way by making broken objects perform at levels beyond their perceived capacity.”
Shanahan founded ClearAccessIP in 2013, a law firm that uses AI to work on patent portfolios for clients
She later founded the Bia-Echo Foundation, a philanthropic foundation focused on “reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform, and a healthy and livable planet.”
Shanahan was married to a finance executive before meeting and marrying Brin (right) – the eighth richest man in the world – at a yoga retreat in 2015.
Shanahan reportedly had an affair with Elon Musk, although both have denied the allegations
In 2003, she attended the University of Puget Sound, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Mandarin Chinese, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She then studied global intellectual property trafficking and Chinese law at the National University of Singapore in 2013 before taking up law school at Santa Clara University.
Shanahan founded ClearAccessIP in 2013, a law firm that uses AI to work on patent portfolios for clients.
However, she left the company in 2020 and founded the Bia-Echo Foundation, a philanthropic foundation focused on “reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform, and a healthy and livable planet,” according to her website.
Shanahan was married to a financial executive before meeting and marrying Brin – the eighth richest man in the world – at a yoga retreat in 2015.
They then tied the knot in a low-key wedding ceremony on November 7, 2018, according to the Economic times.
They reportedly lived in a $13.5 million Malibu mansion once owned by singer Pink.
They later had a daughter after years of fertility issues, which Shanahan has spoken about publicly.
Brin and Shanahan reportedly lived in a Malibu mansion worth $13.5 million (pictured)
The mansion was once owned by singer Pink
Shanahan was last romantically linked to another wealthy tech founder Jacob Strumwasser, the vice president of Lightning Labs
“Like many women who aren’t quite ready to start a family in their early 30s, I decided, or so I thought at the time, to take matters into my own hands and freeze embryos,” shared she. Page six in 2019.
“However, after three failed attempts at embryo creation and three dozen visits to in-vitro fertilization clinics in the Bay Area, I discovered that I was not nearly as staunch as I thought.”
But in January 2022, Brin had filed for divorce from his wife of four years after reportedly learning about her flirtation with Musk.
He cited “irreconcilable differences” in the divorce papers but asked for the docket to be sealed to protect his young daughter.
She was last romantically linked to another wealthy tech founder Jacob Strumwasser, the vice president of Lightning Labs.