Android co-founder cheated wife out of millions, documents reveal: report

Essential founder Andy Rubin

Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, is accused of "cheating his wife out of millions," according to court documents.

The documents, which have non been proven in court, claim that Rubin forced his wife to sign a prenuptial agreement weeks earlier she was going to requite birth to their child, co-ordinate to BuzzFeed News. The documents as well noted that negotiations on terms were all the same happening three days prior to their wedding, resulting in his married woman from being "cutting out" of having any share of Rubin's wealth. This lawsuit seeks to counteract the prenuptial agreement.

The same documents incorporate details about allegations that were laid in October, every bit reported by the New York Times.

Those allegations relate to Rubin financially supporting mistresses, who were "loaned" to other men, in what Rubin called "an buying relationship." One of the mistresses was "complicit with Rubin in running what appeared to be a sex ring."

The document also alleges that Rubin redirected joint funds in guild to make personal payments to these women. It as well added that Rubin had stopped depositing his paychecks from Google into the articulation business relationship and in one case he left the company in 2014 among sexual misconduct allegations, he would eolith his severance paychecks into a personal business relationship.

A central merits of the complaint is that the lawyer representing Rubin'due south wife failed to reveal that he had represented Rubin in a previous divorce. As a result, Rubin was able to allegedly exclude large portions of his wealth from the prenuptial understanding.

The plaintiffs argue that because there was a conflict of involvement and "the broader irregularities" it should render the agreement invalid.

Source: BuzzFeed News Via: The Verge