Who Is Errol Musk? What We Know About Elon’s Dad?

Elon Musk’s estranged father, Errol Musk, have not had a good relationship with each other over the years.

In 2017, during an interview, Elon had described his father as “evil” and “a terrible human being”, even though ‘he has a very high IQ and is “brilliant at engineering.”

Many years ago, Errol allegedly shot and killed three armed men who invaded his home in Johannesburg.

Errol was never was convicted of any crime because he acted in self defense.

Errol has deep interest in exploration and adventure.

His grandmother the first chiropractor in Canada, and his own parents were the first two people to board a single-engine airplane from South Africa to Australia.

Errol married model Maye Haldeman Musk in 1970 but divorced in 1979. They had three children: Elon, Kimbal and Tosca.

Errol served as part of the Pretoria City Council, as far back as in 1972 and fought for the abolition of apartheid.

Errol became a multimillionaire before he clocked 30, and was the youngest individual to obtain a professional engineer’s qualification in South Africa.

He is a trained electromechanical engineer, a pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer.

He partly owns a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika.

Errol resides in Pretoria, South Africa, with the family of his second wife.

What Did Errol Musk Do?

Errol Musk, the father of Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, had an unplanned child with his step-daughter.

Errol, 76, justified his actions by saying that “the only reason for being on Earth is to reproduce.”

Errol’s stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, 35, had a daughter named Elliot Rush, in 2018.

The duo had been co-habiting for a while before the birth of baby Rush.

Errol had been married to Jana’s mother, Heide, for almost twenty years before they divorced. He fathers two biological children with her – Rose and Tosca.