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Errol Musk
BornSouth Africa
Occupation(s)Electrical and mechanical engineering consultant and property developer
Known forfather of Elon Musk
Spouse(s) Maye Musk ​ ​(m. 1970; div. 1979)​
Heide Bezuidenhout (div.)
Children7, including Elon, Kimbal, Tosca
FamilyMusk family

Errol Graham Musk is a South African retired electrical and mechanical engineering consultant, property developer, former part-owner of an emerald mine, and former politician. He is the father of business magnate Elon Musk, restaurateur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk. He was married to Maye Musk.

Biography

Errol Musk was born in South Africa. His mother was British and his father was South African. His father, Walter Henry James Musk, was an army sergeant.

In 1972, Musk was elected to the Pretoria City Council to represent Sunnyside, Pretoria. He became a member of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and ran as the PFP candidate in the 1981 election to represent Sunnyside. He resigned from the PFP in 1983.

Musk worked as an electrical and mechanical engineering consultant and developed properties. He specialised in retail and office property development.

In a 2018 interview with Business Insider South Africa, Musk referred to his wealth, including an emerald mine when his son Elon was a teenager. In response to rumours related to the mine and Elon Musk, a November 2022 report by Snopes relied on news reporting to find in the 1980s, Errol "at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia".

Family life

Musk and Maye Haldeman met in high school, dated as young adults, and married in 1970. They had three children: Elon, born in 1971, then Kimbal, and later Tosca. The family lived in Pretoria, where Maye worked as a dietician and a model. After the end of the marriage in 1979, the children initially stayed with Maye, and Elon and Kimbal later moved in with their father.

Musk later married Heide Bezuidenhout and they had two children. In 2018, The Telegraph reported that after Musk divorced Heide Bezuidenhout following 18 years of marriage, he had a child with Jana Bezuidenhout, his former stepdaughter from that marriage, then age 30, who had been four years old at the time Musk married her mother. In July 2022, Musk gave an interview to the tabloid newspaper The Sun, announcing that he and Jana Bezuidenhout had another child.

Musk has a total of seven children and according to People in November 2022, is estranged from his son Elon.

According to the 2015 biography of Elon Musk titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, in 1995, Errol Musk gave $28,000 to Elon and Kimbal as they were starting up the software company Zip2. Elon Musk has denied this.

Personal life

He has been both a pilot and sailor.

See also

References

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  2. Vance, Ashlee (2017). Elon Musk: Tesla, Paypal, SpaceX: l'entrepreneur qui va changer le monde (in Portuguese). Eyrolles. p. 40. ISBN 9782212594379.
  3. Eligon, John; Chutel, Lynsey (5 May 2022). "Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. ^ Vlismas, Michael (2022). Elon Musk: Risking it All. Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1776191857.
  5. ^ Sussman, Gary (2003). The referendum in F.W. de Klerk's war of manoeuvre: An historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum (PDF) (PhD thesis). London School of Economics.
  6. ^ Ashlee, Vance (2017). Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062463289.
  7. ^ Sager, Jessica (7 November 2022). "Who Is Elon Musk's Estranged Father? All About Errol Musk". People. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  8. Wet, Phillip de (23 February 2018). "'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  9. Liles, Jordan (17 November 2022). "What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor". Snopes. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  10. ^ Holson, Laura M. (30 April 2016). "At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  11. Friend, Tad (24 August 2009). "Plugged In". New Yorker. Vol. 85, no. 25. pp. 50–59.
  12. ^ Crilly, Rob (25 March 2018). "Elon Musk's father has baby with step-daughter he has known since she was four". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  13. Ball, Molly; Kluger, Jeffrey; De la Garza, Alejandro (13 December 2021). "Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year". Time. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  14. Sharma, Shweta (15 July 2022). "Elon Musk's father confirms second child with his own stepdaughter - report". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  15. Biggs, Jade (16 July 2022). "Elon Musk's dad reveals he fathered an "unplanned" child with his stepdaughter". Cosmopolitan. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  16. ^ Hahn, Jason (26 March 2018). "Inside the Complicated Relationship Between Elon Musk and His Estranged Father, Errol Musk". People. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  17. George, Ilian (2017). Top Visionaries Who Changed The World. Jaico Publishing House. p. 111. ISBN 9788184959567.

External links

  • South African patent number 0669 of 1996 for "Process and equipment to repair constant velocity joints.", Patent journal, including trademarks, designs, and copyright in cinematograph films. (March 1996). South Africa: Government Printer of South Africa. Volume 29, p149. Available from the New York Public Library.
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