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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate Nicole Shanahan was married for just 27 DAYS to her first husband: Investor Jeremy Kranz filed for separation because of 'fraud'... two months after she met Google billionaire beau Sergey Brin

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Vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan's first marriage officially lasted just 27 days according to her divorce settlement agreement obtained by DailyMail.com. 

The 38-year-old Bay Area lawyer and entrepreneur was tapped by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy last week to be his No. 2 on the ticket. 

Prior to entering politics, Shanahan was known for being the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin - and for a Wall Street Journal story that alleged 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 tied the knot with 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 a 2013 vacation. As part of their divorce settlement, after being legally married for just 27 days, he asked that she scrub all photos of him and his family from social media websites

Vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan (right) and her first husband Jeremy Kranz (left) on a 2013 vacation. As part of their divorce settlement, after being legally married for just 27 days, he asked that she scrub all 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 Nullity' - an annulment in California legalese - alleging that 'fraud' had occurred in the relationship

Jeremy Kranz separated from Nicole Shanahan after just 27 days of marriage and filed a 'Petition for Nullity' - an annulment in California legalese - alleging that 'fraud' had occurred in the relationship 

Nicole Shanahan (center left) and her current partner Jacob Strumwasser (left) at last week's announcement in her hometown of Oakland, California that she would be (center right) Robert F. Kennedy's running mate. Kennedy poses with his actress wife Cheryl Hines (right)

Nicole Shanahan (center left) and her current partner Jacob Strumwasser (left) at last week's announcement in her hometown of Oakland, California that she would be (center right) Robert F. Kennedy's running mate. Kennedy poses with his actress wife Cheryl Hines (right) 

Shanahan's first husband initially filed a 'Petition for Nullity' - an annulment in California legalese - alleging that 'fraud' had occurred in the relationship. 

While the documents do not disclose what motivated Kranz's decision to end the relationship in this manner, in California fraud 'must be very serious and be about something that goes to the heart of your marriage,' a California courts website explained

The website also defines fraud as, 'the other person lied to you or kept something from you in order to get you to marry them.' 

That December in response, Shanahan filed that she wanted the break-up to be considered a 'Dissolution' of the marriage instead, with the divorce settlement stating that Kranz 'agreed to allow this matter proceed as a Dissolution in order to preserve Wife's ability to practice law.' 

In doing so, Shanahan waived terms laid out in their premarital agreement including that she would receive either a BMW or Honda CRV and receive spousal support and other rights and benefits. 

She would keep control of the company she started as a law student, ClearAccessIP, her Toyota Prius and a Yorkshire Terrier dog.  

As part of the divorce agreement - which was dated February 26, 2015 - Shanahan also agreed to scrub pictures of Kranz and his family members from her Facebook account and other social media websites. 

'Wife shall forthwith remove all pictures of Husband and/or Husband's family from Facebook and all other social media websites,' the divorce agreement said. 

The couple ultimately divorced in April 2015. 

The Kennedy campaign did not dispute the short marriage in a statement to DailyMail.com. 

'The divorce settled in mutual agreement as a dissolution. Ms. Shanahan and her first husband met when she was 23 years old, and they were together for 4 years which included a two year engagement,' said the Kennedy campaign's senior adviser Link Lauren. 'As everyone can understand, some relationships are not meant to be.'

Kranz did not respond to several attempts to reach him.  

Nicole Shanahan (left) poses with her second husband Sergey Brin (right), the billionaire Google co-founder, at an event in 2016, while they were dating

Nicole Shanahan (left) poses with her second husband Sergey Brin (right), the billionaire Google co-founder, at an event in 2016, while they were dating  

Nicole Shanahan (left) and Sergey Brin (right) out in New York City in 2016

Nicole Shanahan (left) and Sergey Brin (right) out 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 the campus and talking about quantum physics,' she told the magazine in July 2023. 'He showed me around the areas he’d frequent when he was there as a masters student — and where he created Google with Larry Page!' 

'I was living in a fairytale. It was magical. It seemed like we really could solve a lot of the world's problems with tech then,' she said. 

Brin and Shanahan quietly married in 2018 and kept their nuptials hush-hush until 2019, after the birth of their daughter Echo.

In the 2023 People interview, she talked about how she never got used to being among the mega-wealthy. 

'When I was living as a wife of a billionaire, I was not the best version of myself,' she reflected. 'I felt conflicted every day, like I couldn't access the thing that made me what I am.' 

Nicole Shanahan (right) and her ex-Sergey Brin on a Los Angeles red carpet in 2021

Nicole Shanahan (right) and her ex-Sergey Brin on a Los Angeles red carpet in 2021

'I couldn't access that 5-year-old girl who had to figure out how to turn a 30-year-old baseball mitt into something I could go to softball with,' she said. 'It was the girl who just had endless optimism and tenacity and that fight - 'cause I'm a fighter - and I didn't know how to switch gears. I tried for years. I looked around me for examples of how I could adapt to this new lifestyle.' 

The couple separated in 2021, with Brin filing 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 to Brin filing for divorce earlier that year and the two billionaires ending their years long friendship. 

Both Shanahan and Musk have vehemently denied they were ever romantic while the Wall Street Journal continues to stand by the report. 

Shanahan told People that she and Musk had a conversation about autism, after Echo was diagnosed to be on the spectrum, and then she was 'shamed internationally for being a cheater.' 

'Did Elon and I have 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 an affair.' 

It's unclear exactly how much Shanahan took away from the split, as the couple reportedly owned a massive Malibu estate - formerly owned by the singer Pink - a Manhattan penthouse, multiple properties in Silicon Valley and a 240-feet superyacht named Dragonfly.   

Shanahan met Jacob Strumwasser at Burning Man during the summer of 2022 and held a 'love ceremony' in May

Shanahan met Jacob Strumwasser at Burning Man during the summer of 2022 and held a 'love ceremony' in May 

Amid her divorce with Brin and as Google search results of Shanahan's name continued to tie her romantically with Musk, the Bay Area lawyer went to Burning Man and met her current partner, Jacob Strumwasser, through a friend. 

'We were living parallel surfing lives it seems, and then we met at Burning Man, which is the driest place on the planet, and talked about how much we missed surfing,' she told People in July. 'I feel really fortunate, he's lovely.' 

In May they held a 'love ceremony' instead of a traditional wedding. 

'There's a beach both he and I are very connected to, where we had independently surfed many times before meeting and then surfed together on an early date,' she said. 'We fell in love surfing there, and we did a love blessing ceremony with water we collected from that beach.' a

They then headed to her Southern California property. 

'It was spontaneous with a few friends,' she told People. 'We didn't know who was gonna end up there, but we had a handful of friends and we had a friend who believes in the magic of water lead a water blessing for us. It was beautiful.' 

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