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The family of Elon Musk includes his mother Maye Musk, a model and author, his father Errol Musk, a businessman and politician, his siblings Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and his cousin Lyndon Rive. His ex-wives are Justine Musk and Talulah Riley. Other family includes his daughter Florish Musk, his nephew Ethan Musk and his niece Camila Musk.

History

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Elon Musk's paternal great-grandmother was a Dutchwoman descended from the Dutch Free Burghers, while one of his maternal great-grandparents came from the Haldimann family in Switzerland.[1] His paternal grandmother was English from Liverpool and his paternal grandfather Walter Henry J. Musk was South African.[2][3] Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk,[4] is a South African former electrical and mechanical engineer consultant and property developer,[3] who was involved in emerald mines in the 1980s,[5][6] and was a member of the South African Progressive Federal Party.[7]: 225, fn 119 

His maternal grandparents Winnifred Josephine "Wyn" (Fletcher) and Joshua Norman Haldeman were explorers who lived in South Africa and Canada and searched for the Lost City of the Kalahari.[8] Joshua Haldeman was a former director of Technocracy Incorporated and a political activist who ran for the Canadian Parliament on the Social Credit Party ticket, and headed the Canadian branch of the Technocracy movement.[9][10]

Parents

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Errol Musk

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Errol Musk
Born1946 (age 77–78)
Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Alma materUniversity of Pretoria
Occupations
  • Engineer
  • politician
  • businessman
OfficePretoria city councilman
Term1972–1983
Political partyProgressive Federal Party (resigned 1983)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1970; div. 1979)​

Sue Musk
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(divorced)​

Heide Bezuidenhout
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(m. 1992; div. 2004)​
PartnerJana Bezuidenhout
Children7
Three with Maye: Elon, Kimbal, Tosca;
Two with Heidi, Two with Jana
Parents
  • Walter Henry James Musk (father)
  • Cora Amelia Robinson Musk (mother)

Errol Graham Musk[11] is a retired South African engineer, politician, and businessman born in South Africa.[12] His mother, Cora Amelia, was British and his father Walter Henry James Musk was a South African army sergeant.[12][13] Errol attended Clapham High School, where he dated Maye Haldeman,[14] and the pair married in 1970.[15]: 44  The family lived in Pretoria, where Maye worked as a dietician and a model.[14] Their first child, Elon Reeve Musk, was born in 1971, named after Maye's grandfather J. Elon Haldeman, with the name Reeve after her maternal grandmother's maiden name.[14][12]

On 9 March 1972, Musk was elected as an independent to represent Sunnyside on the Pretoria City Council.[16][15]: 52 [17][18]He became a member of the recently-formed Progressive Federal Party and ran as their nominee in the 1981 election.[15]: 52 [7]: 225, fn 119  In 1983, his resignation from the party amid divisions over a constitutional referendum was front page news.[7]: 225, fn 119 [19]

Musk studied electromechanics at the University of Pretoria, worked as an electrical and mechanical engineering consultant, and developed properties,[12] especially retail and office property development.[13]: 27  His lucrative engineering business which took on "large projects such as office buildings, retail complexes, residential subdivisions, and an air force base." He also owned an auto parts store, as well as "one of the biggest houses in Pretoria"[13][20] In 1979, Musk and wife Maye divorced.[14][21] Maye's book recalls that at the time of the divorce, he owned two homes, a yacht, a plane, five luxury cars, and a truck.[22]

In her memoir, Maye characterized her marriage as abusive and alleged Errol had been violent.[23] She recounts a time during their divorce when she sought refuge at a neighbor's home after Errol showed up with a knife looking for her.[22] After the divorce, Musk repeatedly sued his ex-wife for custody of their children.[22] He was briefly married to a woman named Sue.[22]

In the early 1990s, Errol, then aged 45, married Heide Bezuidenhout, a 25-year old he described as "one of the best looking women I’ve ever seen in my life".[24] They had two children.[25] Jana Bezuidenhout, who later became his romantic partner, was his stepdaughter from that marriage, four years old at the time Errol became her stepfather.[25][26]

In the early 1980s, Errol built a lodge in the Timbavati Game Reserve to rent to tourists.[18]: ch. 3  In 1986, he acquired rights to the output of three Zambian emerald mines, though he did not own mines themselves. In interviews with Walter Issacson, he explained: "If you registered it, you would wind up with nothing, because the Blacks would take everything from you".[18]: ch. 1  He later referred to his wealth during Elon's teen years in an interview with Business Insider South Africa, saying he had "so much money we couldn't even close our safe" and mentioned his emerald dealings.[27][28] Snopes confirmed that at some point he owned "a stake in an emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia".[6] He once described his emerald mine as an "under the table" operation.[29]

In the 21st century, Errol Musk achieved notoriety for his relationships with his ex-wife Maye and their children: the industrialist Elon, restaurateur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk; as well as with his step-daughter turned romantic partner, Jana Bezuidenhout.

Errol is a pro-natalist.[30]

In 2014, Musk gave an interview about his son Elon.[31] In 2017, Musk was interviewed by Neil Strauss of Rolling Stone for a profile of Elon titled "The Architect of Tomorrow". Errol recalled that he had once shot and killed in self-defense "three out of five or six armed people" who had broken into his home. Elon described his father Errol as a "terrible human being", adding: "Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done."[32][33]

In March 2018, it was reported that Musk had fathered a child with his adult step-daughter Jana Bezuidenhout.[25][34]

In July 2022, Musk gave an interview to the tabloid newspaper The Sun, announcing that he and Jana Bezuidenhout had had another child.[35][36] Musk has a total of seven children, according to People magazine in November 2022.[27] On 1 August 2022, Musk appeared on The Kyle and Jackie O Australian radio show, saying he was "not proud" of his son.[37]

Musk was interviewed by author Walter Isaacson for his 2023 biography of Musk's son Elon, which discussed Errol Musk at length.[38] In June 2024, he said Elon had upgraded his home security system, fearing he was at risk of kidnapping.[39]

In 2024 Errol defended Elon after the latter said that the United Kingdom was heading towards a civil war.[40] Later in 2024 Errol said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was a fascist as a result of his response to the 2024 United Kingdom riots.[41][42]

Maye Musk

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Main article: Maye Musk

Maye Musk (née Haldeman; born April 19, 1948)[43] is a model, dietitian and author.[44][45] She has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, international editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk.[46] She holds Canadian, South African, and American citizenship. She is a registered dietitian. She published her memoir, A Woman Makes a Plan in 2019.

Siblings

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Kimbal Musk

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Main article: Kimbal Musk

Kimbal James Musk (born 20 September 1972) is a South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur. He owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a collection of restaurants located in Colorado and Chicago.[47] He is the co-founder and chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has built hundreds of outdoor classrooms called Learning Gardens in schoolyards across America.[48][49][50] Musk is also the co-founder and chairman of Square Roots, an urban farming company growing food in hydroponic, indoor, climate controlled shipping containers.[51][52][53] Musk currently sits on the boards of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, both of which his brother Elon is the current CEO.[54] He was on the board of Chipotle Mexican Grill[55] from 2013 to 2019.[56] He is the brother of Tosca Musk, son of Errol and Maye Musk, and a major shareholder in Tesla.[57]

In 1995 he co-founded, with his brother, Elon Musk, the software company Zip2, which was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.

Tosca Musk

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Main article: Tosca Musk

Tosca Musk (born 20 July 1974) is a South African filmmaker. She is an executive producer and director of feature films, television programs, and web content. Her work includes K. Bromberg's Driven, Rachel van Dyken's Matchmaker's Playbook, and her web series, Tiki Bar TV.[58][59] Tosca is the younger sister of Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk, and daughter of Errol Musk and Maye Musk.[60] She co-founded the streaming service Passionflix.

Relationships and children

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This section is an excerpt from Elon Musk § Relationships and children.[edit]

Musk has at least 12 children, one of whom is deceased.[61] He met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, while attending Queen's University in Ontario, Canada; they married in 2000.[62] In 2002, their first child died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 10 weeks.[63] After his death, the couple used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to continue their family;[64] they had twins in 2004 followed by triplets in 2006.[64] The couple divorced in 2008 and shared custody of their children.[65][66]

In 2022, the elder twin officially changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson,[67] reflecting her gender identity as a trans woman and using her mother's surname because she no longer wished to be associated with Musk.[67] Musk blamed the estrangement of his daughter on what the Financial Times characterized as "the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists", and has said that her gender transition is primarily what sparked his drive to "destroy the woke mind virus".[68][69] In a July 2024 episode of Jordan Peterson's podcast, Musk said regarding Vivian that he had "lost [his] son [sic], essentially" because of gender-affirming care. He commented: "You know, they call it deadnaming for a reason. The reason it's called deadnaming is because your son [sic] is dead", and went on to state that the eldest twin "is dead, killed by the woke mind virus".[70] Vivian responded publicly, criticizing Musk for lying about her and the circumstances of her transition; saying that Musk was "cold", "quick to anger", "uncaring and narcissistic”, whose infrequent visits commonly involved him berating her for being feminine.[71] On November 7, 2024, in response to a news article about his daughter's reaction to Trump's win, Elon Musk once again misgendered her – writing "the woke mind virus killed my son [sic]."[72]

In 2008, Musk began dating English actress Talulah Riley.[73] They married two years later at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland.[74][75] In 2012, the couple divorced, before remarrying the following year.[76] After briefly filing for divorce in 2014,[76] Musk finalized a second divorce from Riley in 2016.[77] Musk then dated Amber Heard for several months in 2017;[78] he had reportedly been pursuing her since 2012.[79]

In 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes said that they were dating.[80] Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020.[81][82] Musk and Grimes originally gave the baby the name "X Æ A-12", which would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[83][84] which they then changed to "X Æ A-Xii".[85][86] They have received criticism for choosing such an impractical and difficult to pronounce name.[87]

In December 2021, Grimes and Musk had a second child, a daughter born via surrogacy.[88] Despite the pregnancy, Musk confirmed reports that the couple were "semi-separated" in September 2021; in an interview with Time in December 2021, he said he was single.[89][90] In March 2022, Grimes said of her relationship with Musk: "I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we're very fluid."[88] Later that month, Grimes tweeted that she and Musk had broken up again.[91] In September 2023 it was reported that the pair had a third child, a son.[92] In October 2023, Grimes sued Musk over parental rights and custody of their eldest son.[93][94][95]

In July 2022, Insider published court documents revealing that Musk had twins via IVF with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, in November 2021.[96] They were born weeks before Musk and Grimes had their second child via surrogate in December. The news "raise[d] questions about workplace ethics", given that Zilis directly reported to Musk.[97] Their third child together was born in early 2024 via surrogacy.[98][61] Also in July 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk allegedly had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in 2021, leading to their divorce the following year.[99] Musk denied the report.[100] Musk also had a relationship with Australian actress Natasha Bassett, who has been described as "an occasional girlfriend".[101] In October 2024, The New York Times reported Musk bought a Texas compound for his children and the mothers of his children.[102]

Further reading

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  • Musk, Maye (31 December 2019) A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success Penguin Random House
  • Isaacson, Walter (12 September 2023) Elon Musk Simon and Schuster

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