Gossip

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has split up with his wife of six years and become romantically involved with a fellow “Googler” 13 years his junior. Brin, 40, has been separated from Anne Wojcicki for “several months,” according to a spokesman, and has since been linked to Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg. To complicate matters, the 27-year-old Rosenberg recently ended a relationship with another Google executive, Hugo Barra, who is now departing the company, reportedly for unrelated reasons. Brin, who has two young children with Wojcicki, holds about $21 billion in Google stock. The company’s shareholders will be pleased to know the couple is believed to have a prenup.

Hollywood star Kirk Douglas has urged his son Michael Douglas to reconcile with estranged wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. The senior Douglas, 96, is said to have told Michael to “sort his problems out,” according to British tabloid The Sun. A source told the newspaper, “He’s been with his wife, Anne, for almost 60 years and thinks marriage is about sticking with someone through good and bad.” The couple announced they would separate last week, following reports that they had been living apart for 18 months. But Douglas, 68, seemed confident he could patch things up with Zeta-Jones, 43. Asked at a film festival last week if the marriage was salvageable, he said, “Of course.”

Bill and Hillary Clinton got into a security-deposit dispute with the owner of a $200,000-a-month home they rented in the Hamptons last year, according to the New York Post. The former first couple dropped $100,000 on a 15-day rental in exclusive East Hampton in 2012, plus a $20,000 deposit. The house’s owner, Elie Hirschfeld, told them that landscaping and utility costs ate up the bulk of the deposit, leading to a dispute that Hirschfeld says was settled in “amicable agreement.” But the Clintons didn’t return to his home for this year’s summer season, instead renting a nearby six-bedroom house for $200,000 a month.

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