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Larry and Sergey brought wives to watch Google satellite launch

Owen Thomas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Google helped pay for this weekend's launch of a satellite which will take high-resolution imagery for its Google Earth service, and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were on hand to watch the rocket lift off at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Serious business, right? Not when you see our spy photos of the billionaires. Brin wore bright orange Crocs and Page wore a red windbreaker. More tellingly, Brin brought Anne Wojcicki, his pregnant wife, and Page brought his wife Lucy. Both women also dressed informally. Wojcicki carried a plastic water bottle — funny, I thought Larry and Sergey had gotten rid of those at the Googleplex. It all looked like a lark for the billionaire couples, rather than a visit to a high-security military installation — paid for by Google's shareholders and U.S. taxpayers. At least Larry and Sergey seem to have flown their on their own dime — the photos show a Gulfstream V, one of the models in the Googlers' fleet of party planes. Admit it, you all wish you were Larry and Sergey, Crocs and all.

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Sister outs Mrs. Larry Page as ex-model

Owen Thomas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Lucy Page, the bioinformatics-expert wife of the Google cofounder, would seem to fit the Forbes template for billionaires' wives: "Looks are great — but brains are even better." Unlike husband Larry — shown here kissing his bride at their Necker Island wedding — the former Lucy Southworth actually completed her Ph.D. at Stanford. But a revelation from sister Carrie Southworth, an actress, may mar Lucy's Valley-brainy reputation.

Lucy, a willowy blonde, used to work as a model. "The summer after my freshman year, I was home from school and my sister's car broke down, so I drove her to the Elite modeling agency," Carrie, a television actress, told Soapnet. How did the New York Post miss this? At any rate, a modeling career combined with a Ph.D. makes two things Lucy has accomplished that Larry, even with his newly trendy hair, never will.

If you round up, Larry Page turns 40 today

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:20:00 EDT

Born on March 26, 1973, Google cofounder Larry Page turns 35 today. Maybe wife Lucy will get Larry some jewelry to match Sergey's. (Photo by dannysullivan)

Introducing Mrs. Lucy Page

Owen Thomas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:40:07 EST

Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO of the Google-funded biotech startup 23andMe, is a modern sort, keeping her name after marriage. Not so, apparently, for the former Lucy Southworth, who recently married Brin's cofounder, Larry Page. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, her nametag read "Lucy Page." One thing's for sure: This will make her more difficult to Google.