Strange Details About Elon Musk's Family

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00:00Strange details about Elon Musk's family

00:03Family relationships can still be a mess. Just ask Elon Musk.

00:07Their relationship with their father is much more complicated.

00:10Elon Musk has never sugar-coated what it was like moving in with his father,

00:14Errol, after his parents split. He was just a scrawny South African

00:18teen who thought Dad looked lonely. Instead, he landed in a real-life,

00:23super-villain origin story. Elon told Rolling Stone that the house was a war zone of verbal

00:28beatdowns.

00:30South Africa, when I was growing up, was just an inherently very violent place.

00:34I got punched in the face many times.

00:36When school bullies pummeled him so badly his face swelled shut, Errol didn't offer ice or

00:41sympathy. He lined his son up at attention and unleashed an hour-long rant about how worthless

00:46he was.

00:47Elon Musk tell it, his father, Errol Musk, was and is an outright villain.

00:52That scene has stuck with Elon for decades, resurfacing in Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography

00:58where the world's richest man calls his father,

01:00a terrible human being, with no idea of the harm he caused.

01:04Elon told my dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil.

01:09May Musk insists her own former mother-in-law helped engineer the custody shuffle

01:14by guilt-tripping Elon,

01:15your poor dad is all alone,

01:17so the boy's compassion could be twisted into yet another Errol power play.

01:21With that kind of parenting, SpaceX's escape-velocity obsession starts to make chilling sense.

01:28Errol Musk married his stepdaughter.

01:30Once May was out of the picture, Errol married 20 years younger Haida Bezwiedenhout,

01:35acquiring toddler Janna as a ready-made stepdaughter.

01:39Fast forward to 2017, the tabloids explode when Errol, then 72, confirms Janna, now 30,

01:47has given birth to his son. He tells the Daily Mail the baby was conceived

01:52during a bout of mutual loneliness,

01:54later telling the Sunday Times it was God's plan or nature's plan.

01:59In 2022, he casually reveals they secretly welcomed a second child in 2019,

02:05doubling down on the scandal while insisting Janna was never really a daughter to him,

02:11just a delightful girl who sees him as a life-changer.

02:14The family, predictably, is mortified.

02:17Elon reportedly won't speak to his father and calls the saga beyond creepy,

02:23yet Errol wears the drama like a shrugging cardigan, apparently unfazed by global side-eye.

02:30Thanksgiving at Casa Musk must require NDA-level place cards, just to keep track of who calls whom

02:36Dad.

02:37Elon's mom accidentally told people to commit voter fraud.

02:41Elon's mother usually dishes wholesome, model nutritionist vibes, but in October to the 24,

02:47she managed to ignite political Twitter with a single snarky reply.

02:51After her son urged followers to register for the looming presidential election,

02:56May tweeted, then quickly deleted, that Democrats had invented an easier route.

03:02Skip registration, invent 10 fake names, vote 10 times, and voila, it's not illegal.

03:09Sarcasm, she said later, before pivoting to praise Pennsylvania Republicans

03:13for gatekeeping the polls. The internet was not amused.

03:18Replies piled up, too late May, damage done.

03:21NBC News captured the post before it vanished, ensuring the faux fraud tutorial lives on forever

03:28in screenshot infamy. It's one thing when Elon trolls, it's another when mom muses,

03:33jokingly or not, about stuffing ballot boxes. The episode showcased how even peripheral

03:39Musk tweets can ricochet from zero to chaos in seconds, leaving PR teams and family group chats

03:46scrambling for the delete key. Elon Musk has so many kids and ex-wives. Elon loves two things,

03:54disruptive tech and reproducing at scale. He now has 13 children by four women. First wife,

04:00Justine Wilson penned a Marie Claire essay back in 2010 describing their marriage as a

04:06fairytale turned factory reset. She felt disposable, raising twins and triplets while Elon rebranded

04:12himself as Iron Man IRL. Years later, the pattern hadn't mellowed. Grimes, mother of ex-AEA12 and two

04:20younger siblings, sparred with Elon through 2023 to 24 in a cross-border custody tug of war that leaked

04:28court filings and triggered her anguished February 2025 tweet, begging him to address our child's

04:35medical crisis. Meanwhile, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair popped up with a surprise baby

04:42and a petition for sole custody, citing Musk's minimal involvement. Layer on top, his ex Siobhan Zilas,

04:49a Neuralink exec who bore him twins and later two more babies. Because as Isaacson's biography reveals,

04:56Elon wants smart people to breed. Critics scream eugenics. Elon tweets about the underpopulation

05:03crisis. One of his older kids wants nothing to do with him. Vivian dropped the Musk surname and,

05:09according to court documents, declared she no longer wishes to be related to my biological father in

05:14any way, shape, or form. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to family court dockets,

05:20the Musk family keeps multiplying, and so do the headlines. Elon's DIY eugenics master plan is no

05:27secret anymore, and the receipts are everywhere. From conference stages to Twitter rants, he's

05:33hammered one theme. Civilization is doomed because smart people aren't breeding. So the richest man alive

05:39set out to be a one-man Mensa stud farm. Thirteen children, four mothers, three IVF cycles,

05:46two sets of secret twins. It's basically a spreadsheet titled, Project Repopulate.

05:50In Walter Isaacson's 2023 bio, Neuralink exec Siobhan Zilas recalls Elon pitching Parenthood

05:55like a venture deal. The species needs your genes, let's do twins. She agreed, delivered boys in 2021,

06:01and surprise, a second IVF pregnancy in 2024 produced another son, followed by a daughter in early 2025.

06:09Zilas told Isaacson he only wants high-IQ people to have kids. That tracks with his 2022 tweet bragging

06:16he was doing his best to solve underpopulation, posted the same day court docs revealed he'd

06:22fathered the Zilas twins on the down low. He later joked during a Tesla Q&A that collapsing birth rates

06:28are a bigger threat than global warming, then pointed at himself and quipped,

06:33I'm literally working on it. Musk's oldest five sons, a set of twins, and a set of triplets with

06:39first wife Justine Wilson were all conceived via IVF. Exactly the sort of controlled gene pool curation

06:48eugenicists prays. Wilson wrote in her 2010 Marie Claire essay that Elon talked about their embryos,

06:56the way you discuss engineering specs. That clinical approach re-emerged with Grimes,

07:02mother of three more Musk children. In leaked texts, she told a friend, Elon,

07:08jokes about making a literal colony of toddlers on Mars. Grimes later filed a Texas custody suit in 2023,

07:16accusing him of blocking her from their youngest son. Conservative pundit Ashley St. Claire,

07:22mother of Musk baby number 13, filed her own suit in 2025 for sole custody, saying Elon had seen the

07:30infant only a handful of times. Even as he preaches bigger families, frontline caretaking appears

07:37subcontracted to rotating nannies and aggrieved ex-partners. Not everyone is flattered to be cast

07:43in Elon's gene pool epic. Exhibit A, Vivian Jenna Wilson. Born Xavier Musk in 2004, she petitioned a

07:51California court in 2022 to change her name and sever ties with her father. Her filing,

07:58I no longer wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form. Musk responded

08:03by doubling down on anti-trans commentary, telling Jordan Peterson in 2024 that medical staff tricked him

08:11into approving irreversible treatment. By March 2025, he was posting that his child was ruined by the

08:18woke mind virus. Vivian went to NBC interviews, calling him cold, controlling, narcissistic. She

08:25also shaded his designer baby agenda on threads. When I turned out to be transgender, I was going

08:31against the product that was sold. Errol Musk likes to diss Elon's parenting. He actually said that

08:37Elon has too many nannies and that he hasn't been a good dad, while ignoring his own headline-grabbing

08:44choices. Two children with former stepdaughter Jana Beswidenhout, who is 42 years younger than him.

08:51Errol, now in his late 70s, told the Sunday Times they were lost souls who found comfort in each other.

08:59He insists he never saw Jana as a daughter, even though he helped raise her from age four.

09:04The first baby arrived in 2017. The second was revealed in 2022. Asked on the Wide Awake podcast

09:12if he's proud of Elon, Errol sniffed. We've been doing lots of things for a long time. It's not new.

09:18What about that emerald mine that Elon's family owns? Elon frames himself as a debt-ridden striver,

09:25who programmed at night because he couldn't afford a second PC. Detractors say his early ventures were

09:30cushioned by emerald money mined under apartheid-era advantage. In 2019, he tweeted,

09:37we had no emerald mine, calling the rumor a lie. Then Errol went on Facebook in 2020,

09:44admitting he swapped a plane for shares in a Zambian emerald mine in the 1980s and occasionally

09:50pocketed cut stones. On a 2024 South African podcast, he detailed receiving 118-119 emeralds

09:59as escrow. Even if the mine closed in 1989, the family's launch pad benefited from racialized

10:05wealth structures that apartheid protected, context that undercuts Elon's self-made narrative,

10:11and colors his fixation on which humans deserve to reproduce.

10:15What do you guys think of Elon's family? Let me know in the comments and I hope you have a great day!

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