Alphabet chief legal boss married current Googler over weekend: report

David Drummond, the senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Google's parent company, Alphabet, married a current Google employee this past weekend, according to an Axios report on Tuesday.

The news comes about a week after a former Google employee named Jennifer Blakely published a scathing Medium post accusing Drummond of emotional abuse after the birth of the child they had together during an extramarital affair while they were both at Google.

Blakely also said Drummond had multiple affairs with other colleagues at Google.

In response to the allegations, Drummond said last week that other than Blakely he had “never started a relationship” with anyone else at Google or Alphabet and that “any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue.”

Drummond's new wife worked under him at Google years ago but recently returned after a three-year stint away from the company, Axios reported.

Drummond reportedly maintains that he started dating the woman who is now his wife only after she left Google.

Later Tuesday, CNBC reported that Drummond's new wife was a Google employee named Corinne Dixon.

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David Drummond, the senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Google's parent company, Alphabet, married a current Google employee this past weekend, according to an Axios report on Tuesday.

The news comes after Jennifer Blakely — a former Googler who had an extramarital affair with Drummond while they were both at the company — wrote a scathing Medium post in which she accused Drummond of emotional abuse after the birth of their child.

“If I objected to his terms, if I didn't 'play ball,' he would punish me by punishing our son,” Blakely wrote, in part. She said Drummond would go “months or years” without seeing his son or without answering her calls and texts.

In that post, she also said Drummond had multiple affairs with other colleagues at Google.

Drummond responded to the allegations last Thursday in a statement, saying that he was “far from perfect” but that there were “two sides” to the story. The chief legal exec also said that other than Blakely he had “never started a relationship” with anyone else at Google or Alphabet and that “any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue.”

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Later Tuesday, CNBC reported that Drummond's new wife was Corinne Dixon — a Google employee who worked under the exec in the company's legal department years ago but left for about three years, joining Pinterest.

In April 2018, according to her LinkedIn profile, Dixon returned to Google's legal department — though, as Drummond now serves at Alphabet, Google's parent company, she is outside Drummond's direct reporting chain. That's an important distinction because neither Google nor Alphabet allow relationships between managers and subordinates.

Drummond maintains that the two started dating only after she left Google, Axios said. That detail might explain the specific phrasing of Drummond's statement last week, specifying he had “never started a relationship” with another colleague at Google other than Blakely.

Google did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Today, Drummond is one of Alphabet's most senior and highest-paid executives.

His role, however, seems to have moved out of the public eye more and more since the bombshell New York Times piece from last fall that shed more light into his relationship with Blakely and described the company as giving multimillion-dollar payouts to departing executives accused of sexual harassment. At this year's annual shareholder meeting, for instance, Drummond was seated in the audience rather than hosting it, as he had in past years.

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