A British woman who left London in search of fame and fortune with
Google is at the centre of Silicon Valley gossip after striking up a
romance with the search engine’s married multi-billionaire founder.
Only
last year, Amanda Rosenberg was so friendless after moving to San
Francisco that she spoke of eating her lunch alone in the toilets.
But
the 27-year-old, who boarded at £31,000-a-year Marlborough College
with Princess Eugenie and Kate and Pippa Middleton, certainly seems to
have turned things around – for she was last night named as the new
lover of Sergey Brin, 40.
Google has been rocked by talk of the
romance, and a spokesman yesterday confirmed that Brin – one of the
world’s richest men with a £15billion fortune – has for several months
been living apart from his wife of six years Anne Wojcicki, the mother
of his two children.
If they divorce, Californian law suggests their
massive fortune would have to be halved – although they reportedly
signed a strict pre-nuptial agreement.
While the internet was agog
with talk of Brin romancing his much younger employee, the Daily Mail
tracked down a distinctly unsurprised former boyfriend of Miss Rosenberg
– who said she ‘knew the power of her womanly ways’.
Ewan Butler,
28, a trainee teacher living with his parents in Darlington, said:
‘Amanda’s a good looking girl, and she knows she is.
'And she’s good at
“playing” men – she played me.’
Brin’s relationship with Rosenberg
emerged only yesterday – but the pair were pictured together earlier
this year at a New York Fashion Week event, both wearing the
controversial Google Glass computerised spectacles for which she is
marketing manager.
An employee of Google since she graduated with a
communications degree from Leeds University, she initially worked for
the internet giant in London before last year moving to San Francisco to
work at its Silicon Valley nerve centre.
She soon won a role
promoting Google Glass, widely criticised as the glasses which enable
users to film and broadcast over the internet everything they see
non-stop, worrying privacy campaigners.
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