Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez reportedly has a new love interest—and she’s a bit of a departure from his past girlfriends. A-Rod, who said today that he plans to retire after next season, is said to be dating Anne Wojcicki, the C.E.O. and co-founder of billion-dollar personal genomics analytics start-up 23andMe and the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Page Six reports.
Wojcicki and Brin were married for about eight years and have two children together. The couple separated in 2013, and Brin began seeing a woman at Google named Amanda Rosenberg who worked in the company’s Google Glass division. Wojcicki was apparently blindsided by the affair, Vanity Fair reported at the time. Brin and Rosenberg are reportedly no longer together. Brin and Wojcicki divorced in June 2015, and are raising their children as a team. Rodriguez split with his ex, former professional wrestler Torrie Wilson, a year ago.
Wojcicki’s start-up, 23andMe, saw its value skyrocket to $1.03 billion last year after raising $115 million in venture-capital funding. Her company’s investors include Google and Brin and Fidelity and Johnson & Johnson. In 2014, the F.D.A. told 23andMe it could no longer market its DNA-testing kit in the U.S., which the agency was concerned could provide inaccurate information about consumers’ health. Last year, the company released a new test complying with the F.D.A.’s guidelines, becoming the first approved direct-to-consumer genetics-testing product.
Page Six reports that A-Rod has been seeing the 42-year-old Silicon Valley biologist for over a month. The two were photographed together last month at Vanity Fair’s Super Bowl party in San Francisco. Forty-year-old Rodriguez, whose exes include Madonna and Cameron Diaz, was reportedly in the audience at the Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, in Tampa, where Wojcicki spoke. The two were also seen dining at a steakhouse with friends in Tampa last week, where A-Rod was for spring training. Page Six talked to a source who said: “Alex and Anne are spending time together and have been on a few dates. It is very new. He finds her interesting, inspirational and very smart.”
