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4/21/2025
Strange Details About Elon Musk's Family
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Strange details about Elon Musk's family
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Family relationships can still be a mess. Just ask Elon Musk.
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Their relationship with their father is much more complicated.
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Elon Musk has never sugar-coated what it was like moving in with his father,
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Errol, after his parents split. He was just a scrawny South African
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teen who thought Dad looked lonely. Instead, he landed in a real-life,
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super-villain origin story. Elon told Rolling Stone that the house was a war zone of verbal
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beatdowns.
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South Africa, when I was growing up, was just an inherently very violent place.
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I got punched in the face many times.
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When school bullies pummeled him so badly his face swelled shut, Errol didn't offer ice or
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sympathy. He lined his son up at attention and unleashed an hour-long rant about how worthless
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he was.
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Elon Musk tell it, his father, Errol Musk, was and is an outright villain.
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That scene has stuck with Elon for decades, resurfacing in Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography
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where the world's richest man calls his father,
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a terrible human being, with no idea of the harm he caused.
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Elon told my dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil.
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May Musk insists her own former mother-in-law helped engineer the custody shuffle
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by guilt-tripping Elon,
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your poor dad is all alone,
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so the boy's compassion could be twisted into yet another Errol power play.
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With that kind of parenting, SpaceX's escape-velocity obsession starts to make chilling sense.
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Errol Musk married his stepdaughter.
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Once May was out of the picture, Errol married 20 years younger Haida Bezwiedenhout,
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acquiring toddler Janna as a ready-made stepdaughter.
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Fast forward to 2017, the tabloids explode when Errol, then 72, confirms Janna, now 30,
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has given birth to his son. He tells the Daily Mail the baby was conceived
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during a bout of mutual loneliness,
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later telling the Sunday Times it was God's plan or nature's plan.
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In 2022, he casually reveals they secretly welcomed a second child in 2019,
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doubling down on the scandal while insisting Janna was never really a daughter to him,
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just a delightful girl who sees him as a life-changer.
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The family, predictably, is mortified.
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Elon reportedly won't speak to his father and calls the saga beyond creepy,
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yet Errol wears the drama like a shrugging cardigan, apparently unfazed by global side-eye.
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Thanksgiving at Casa Musk must require NDA-level place cards, just to keep track of who calls whom
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Dad.
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Elon's mom accidentally told people to commit voter fraud.
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Elon's mother usually dishes wholesome, model nutritionist vibes, but in October to the 24,
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she managed to ignite political Twitter with a single snarky reply.
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After her son urged followers to register for the looming presidential election,
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May tweeted, then quickly deleted, that Democrats had invented an easier route.
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Skip registration, invent 10 fake names, vote 10 times, and voila, it's not illegal.
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Sarcasm, she said later, before pivoting to praise Pennsylvania Republicans
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for gatekeeping the polls. The internet was not amused.
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Replies piled up, too late May, damage done.
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NBC News captured the post before it vanished, ensuring the faux fraud tutorial lives on forever
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in screenshot infamy. It's one thing when Elon trolls, it's another when mom muses,
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jokingly or not, about stuffing ballot boxes. The episode showcased how even peripheral
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Musk tweets can ricochet from zero to chaos in seconds, leaving PR teams and family group chats
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scrambling for the delete key. Elon Musk has so many kids and ex-wives. Elon loves two things,
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disruptive tech and reproducing at scale. He now has 13 children by four women. First wife,
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Justine Wilson penned a Marie Claire essay back in 2010 describing their marriage as a
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fairytale turned factory reset. She felt disposable, raising twins and triplets while Elon rebranded
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himself as Iron Man IRL. Years later, the pattern hadn't mellowed. Grimes, mother of ex-AEA12 and two
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younger siblings, sparred with Elon through 2023 to 24 in a cross-border custody tug of war that leaked
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court filings and triggered her anguished February 2025 tweet, begging him to address our child's
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medical crisis. Meanwhile, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair popped up with a surprise baby
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and a petition for sole custody, citing Musk's minimal involvement. Layer on top, his ex Siobhan Zilas,
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a Neuralink exec who bore him twins and later two more babies. Because as Isaacson's biography reveals,
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Elon wants smart people to breed. Critics scream eugenics. Elon tweets about the underpopulation
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crisis. One of his older kids wants nothing to do with him. Vivian dropped the Musk surname and,
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according to court documents, declared she no longer wishes to be related to my biological father in
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any way, shape, or form. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to family court dockets,
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the Musk family keeps multiplying, and so do the headlines. Elon's DIY eugenics master plan is no
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secret anymore, and the receipts are everywhere. From conference stages to Twitter rants, he's
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hammered one theme. Civilization is doomed because smart people aren't breeding. So the richest man alive
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set out to be a one-man Mensa stud farm. Thirteen children, four mothers, three IVF cycles,
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two sets of secret twins. It's basically a spreadsheet titled, Project Repopulate.
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In Walter Isaacson's 2023 bio, Neuralink exec Siobhan Zilas recalls Elon pitching Parenthood
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like a venture deal. The species needs your genes, let's do twins. She agreed, delivered boys in 2021,
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and surprise, a second IVF pregnancy in 2024 produced another son, followed by a daughter in early 2025.
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Zilas told Isaacson he only wants high-IQ people to have kids. That tracks with his 2022 tweet bragging
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he was doing his best to solve underpopulation, posted the same day court docs revealed he'd
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fathered the Zilas twins on the down low. He later joked during a Tesla Q&A that collapsing birth rates
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are a bigger threat than global warming, then pointed at himself and quipped,
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I'm literally working on it. Musk's oldest five sons, a set of twins, and a set of triplets with
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first wife Justine Wilson were all conceived via IVF. Exactly the sort of controlled gene pool curation
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eugenicists prays. Wilson wrote in her 2010 Marie Claire essay that Elon talked about their embryos,
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the way you discuss engineering specs. That clinical approach re-emerged with Grimes,
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mother of three more Musk children. In leaked texts, she told a friend, Elon,
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jokes about making a literal colony of toddlers on Mars. Grimes later filed a Texas custody suit in 2023,
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accusing him of blocking her from their youngest son. Conservative pundit Ashley St. Claire,
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mother of Musk baby number 13, filed her own suit in 2025 for sole custody, saying Elon had seen the
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infant only a handful of times. Even as he preaches bigger families, frontline caretaking appears
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subcontracted to rotating nannies and aggrieved ex-partners. Not everyone is flattered to be cast
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in Elon's gene pool epic. Exhibit A, Vivian Jenna Wilson. Born Xavier Musk in 2004, she petitioned a
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California court in 2022 to change her name and sever ties with her father. Her filing,
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I no longer wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form. Musk responded
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by doubling down on anti-trans commentary, telling Jordan Peterson in 2024 that medical staff tricked him
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into approving irreversible treatment. By March 2025, he was posting that his child was ruined by the
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woke mind virus. Vivian went to NBC interviews, calling him cold, controlling, narcissistic. She
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also shaded his designer baby agenda on threads. When I turned out to be transgender, I was going
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against the product that was sold. Errol Musk likes to diss Elon's parenting. He actually said that
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Elon has too many nannies and that he hasn't been a good dad, while ignoring his own headline-grabbing
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choices. Two children with former stepdaughter Jana Beswidenhout, who is 42 years younger than him.
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Errol, now in his late 70s, told the Sunday Times they were lost souls who found comfort in each other.
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He insists he never saw Jana as a daughter, even though he helped raise her from age four.
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The first baby arrived in 2017. The second was revealed in 2022. Asked on the Wide Awake podcast
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if he's proud of Elon, Errol sniffed. We've been doing lots of things for a long time. It's not new.
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What about that emerald mine that Elon's family owns? Elon frames himself as a debt-ridden striver,
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who programmed at night because he couldn't afford a second PC. Detractors say his early ventures were
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cushioned by emerald money mined under apartheid-era advantage. In 2019, he tweeted,
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we had no emerald mine, calling the rumor a lie. Then Errol went on Facebook in 2020,
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admitting he swapped a plane for shares in a Zambian emerald mine in the 1980s and occasionally
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pocketed cut stones. On a 2024 South African podcast, he detailed receiving 118-119 emeralds
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as escrow. Even if the mine closed in 1989, the family's launch pad benefited from racialized
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wealth structures that apartheid protected, context that undercuts Elon's self-made narrative,
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and colors his fixation on which humans deserve to reproduce.
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What 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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