Errol Musk
Errol Musk (born 1946) is a retired South African pilot, sailor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, consultant, property developer, and emerald mining magnate.
He is the father of business magnate and billionaire Elon Musk, restauranteur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk. He has been married to Maye Musk and also to Heide Bezuidenhout, and has two children with Bezuidenhout's daughter Jana Bezuidenhout.
Early life and education
Errol Musk was born in South Africa in 1946[1] to a South African father and a British mother.[2]
Career
He worked as a pilot, a sailor, an electrical, a mechanical engineer, a consultant, and a property developer, before retiring early.[2] He was 50% owner of an emerald mine on Lake Tanganyika,[2][3] which he funded by selling an airplane.[4]
Family
Musk met Maye Haldeman when he was 11 years old and they were childhood friends before marrying in 1970.[5] She gave birth to their son Elon in 1971,[6] and the family lived in Pretoria,[5][7][8] where Maye worked as a dietician and a model.[5][6] Later the couple gave birth to son Kimbal and later daughter Tosca.[5] After nine years of marriage, Maye and Errol divorced, and both sons moved in with their father.[6][3]
Musk was married to Heide Bezuidenhout for eighteen years and helped her raise her young daughter Jana Bezuidenhout, a child from a previous relationship.[9][10] Later in life, after splitting from Heide Bezuidenhout, he fathered two children with her daughter (his former step-daughter) Jana Bezuidenhout; a son born in 2017 and a daughter born in 2019.[11] At the time of their daughter's birth, according to The Times, Musk was 72 and Jana Bezuidenhout was 30 years old.[12] He has a total of seven children and as of 2022 lives in South Africa.[13]
References
- ↑ Bienasz, Gabrielle. "Who Is Elon Musk's Dad Errol Musk?". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hull, Dana; May, Patrick (20 April 2014). "Exploring the otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk". Buffalo News. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anna Crowley Redding,(2019). Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World. United States: Feiwel & Friends.
- ↑ "50 years of Elon Musk's huge wealth, from emeralds to SpaceX and Tesla". The Independent. 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Abhishek Kumar, A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK. (2021). (n.p.): Prabhat Prakashan.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Holson, Laura M. (2016-04-30). "At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ Strauss, Neil (2017-11-15). "Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ Dolan, Kerry A. "How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk's Father, Errol Musk". Forbes. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Biggs, Jade (2022-07-15). "Elon Musk's dad reveals he fathered an "unplanned" child with his stepdaughter". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ Crilly, Rob (2018-03-25). "Elon Musk's father has baby with step-daughter he has known since she was four". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ "Elon Musk's father confirms second child with his own stepdaughter - report". The Independent. 2022-07-15. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ Farah, Lynn (2022-06-15). "Meet Elon Musk's controversial father, Errol". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ↑ Groß, Antonia (15 July 2022). "Errol Musk hat Kind mit Stieftochter: „Wir sind zum Fortpflanzen auf der Welt"". Berliner Zeitung (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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