Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he had chosen progressive tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan to be his running mate and vice presidential candidate, which prompted a flurry of media reports that dug into the background of the generally unknown individual.

One such report has now revealed that Shanahan's first marriage lasted less than a month before her then-husband sought an annulment for unspecified "fraud," according to the Daily Mail.

Shanahan, a native of Oakland, California, was first married to Bay Area investor Jeremy Kranz, then later wedded but ultimately divorced Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and is now partnered with tech investor Jacob Strumwasser.

Dissolution of a marriage

The Daily Mail reported that right around the time that Shanahan and Brin first met at a yoga festival in 2014, Shanahan got married to Kranz on August 31 of that year. Yet, just 27 days later, on September 26, 2014, Kranz filed separation paperwork and requested an annulment of the marriage by the court.

That paperwork included a "Petition for Nullity" which alleged that "fraud" had occurred within the marriage, though no details of the alleged fraud were provided.

Per California law, "fraud" is one of the few acceptable reasons why a judge can legally void a marriage, particularly "If the other person lied to you or kept something from you in order to get you to marry them (and had you known the truth you would not have married them), you can ask for an annulment within 4 years of finding out about the fraud."

The website also states, "The fraud must be very serious and be about something that goes to the heart of your marriage. For example, marrying only to get a green card or hiding the fact you can't have children. And, you must show that if you had known the truth, you would not have gotten married."

Kennedy campaign says, "Some relationships are not meant to be"

The Daily Mail reported that in response to Kranz's annulment filing, Shanahan requested that the marriage be ended by mutual "dissolution" instead, and Kranz "agreed to allow this matter proceed as a Dissolution in order to preserve Wife's ability to practice law."

The outlet further noted that because of the dissolution agreement, which was approved in February 2015 and the divorce finalized April 2015, Shanahan waived all of the claims she had a right to make under a prenuptial agreement.

When asked about this newly revealed information, the Kennedy campaign told the Daily Mail, "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. As everyone can understand, some relationships are not meant to be."

Later married and divorced to Brin, now tied to Strumwasser

According to the Daily Mail, Shanahan began dating Google co-founder Brin shortly after the divorce from Kranz was finalized in 2015, and the pair were secretly wed in a 2018 ceremony that wasn't publicly revealed until 2019.

That "fairytale" marriage didn't last, however, as the couple were separated in 2021 and Brin filed for divorce in 2022 following a Wall Street Journal article that accused Shanahan of having an extramarital affair with Brin's former friend, tech titan Elon Musk -- an accusation that both Shanahan and Musk have fervently and repeatedly denied.

For her part, Shanahan has insisted that her relationship with Musk was never more than just friendly and centered on discussions of how developing technologies could be used to cure or treat autism, which Shanahan's daughter Echo, whom she had with Brin, had been diagnosed with.

Shanahan is now linked via a "love ceremony," and not a traditional marriage, to tech investor Jacob Strumwasser, who she met through a mutual friend at the annual Burning Man festival.