Errol Musk, 76, father of the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, is often the missing person in the family photo.
When the CEO of the premium electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc. Report speaks or appears with a member of his family, it is never Errol. Maye, his mother, recently accompanied her famous son to the very popular Met Gala. Brother Kimbal is a shareholder of Tesla, and sister Tosca seems to adore her famous brother.
In a recent interview, Tosca also said that their father physically and verbally abused their mother in front of them when they were children.
Tosca claimed that young Elon had often come between their parents to defend their mother. She also says that Errol had gone so far as to destroy the belongings that their mother had bought for them to get revenge on her for asking for a divorce.
This difficult childhood estranged the father and the son.
Errol Has a Second Child With His 35-Year-Old Stepdaughter
Errol has just gone public with having a second child with his stepdaughter, 35-year-old Jana Bezuidenhout. The child, a girl, was born in 2019. The Musk family patriarch and Bezuidenhout previously had a son, Elliot Rush, who is now 5.
“She looks exactly like Rushi [Elliot] and she behaves like him. So it’s pretty obvious you know,” the elder Musk told British tabloid The Sun. “She wasn’t planned. But I mean, we were living together. She [Jana] stayed here for about 18 months after Rushi was born.”
Errol Musk’s announcement of his stepdaughter’s pregnancy dropped a bombshell on the family. He told The Sun that his daughters were “shocked” by his relationship with Jana.
“And they still don’t like it. They still feel a bit creepy about it, because she’s their sister. Their half-sister,” Errol said.
He added: “I haven’t checked her DNA. But she looks just like my other daughters. She looks like Rose and Tosca mixed up,” Errol told the tabloid.
After his divorce from Maye, with whom he was married from 1970 to 1979, the patriarch in 1992 married Heide Bezuidenhout, a widow, originally from South Africa, mother of two children including Jana, who was 4 at the time. The couple divorced after 18 years of marriage and two more children. One of these children is a girl named Rose.