Relatives Accuse Elon Musk’s Father Errol Musk Of Sexually Abusing 5 Of His Children and Stepchildren
Elon Musk‘s father is accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993. This includes one he allegedly touched when she was four years old and who he later had a child with. The explosive allegations against Errol Musk are allegedly why the tech billionaire has kept his distance from his estranged father. The 54-year-old mogul has rarely discusses his strained relationship with his father.
Errol Musk made headlines when he had a baby with his own stepdaughter.
On several occasions, family members have contacted Elon Musk for assistance and he has sometimes taken action to intervene.
The family drama has meant that Elon remained tied to South Africa where Errol lives.
Elon Musk’s Family Keeps Pulling Him Into Family Drama
Police reports in South Africa and California accuse Errol of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren.
The earliest allegation dates back to 1993. Errol Musk’s 4 year-old stepdaughter accused him of touching her at a family house.
She told relatives about the incident. A decade later, she said she caught Errol sniffing her dirty underwear.
She said she later had a baby with him and has grappled with drug use. Her mother married Errol twice and has struggled with mental health issues.
Other family members have accused him of abusing a stepson and two of his daughters.
Two years ago, his then five-year-old son accused him of groping his buttocks. As a result, family members and a social worker intervened.
Police have opened three separate investigations over the past three decades.
But none have yielded any results. Courts in both countries have not convicted Errol Musk of any crime.
One family member sent a 5-page letter in 2010 to Elon. The letter contained allegations against Errol and asking Errol to intervene.
Did the tech giant read the letter? None knows. However, his assistant got in touch with a relative after others wrote to him about the accusations.
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He has also provided financial assistance for two half sisters and a former stepmother. He also sends monthly support to his former stepsister.
At one point, Elon even attempted to keep his stepfamily and half-siblings in California far away from Errol. Errol Musk has been married three times and has nine children and stepchildren.
Errol fiercely denied the allegations. He says they are concocted by family members in an attempt to swindle money from Elon.
The patriarch called the reports ‘false and nonsense in the extreme’.
He claimed he had a positive relationship with Elon and that the two of them are ‘very close’.
In one email, Errol claimed to be aware of only a single abuse accusation.
Errol Musk was born in Pretoria and studied electromechanics at university. He became a successful businessman in his 20s and 30s. He also was a partner in an engineering company and was a Pretoria City Council member.
In the biography, he said he didn’t keep communication with his estranged father.
He broke into tears in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone magazine when he accused his father of having done ‘almost every evil thing you could possibly think of’.
In 1970, Errol married his first wife and Elon’s mother Maye Musk, a dietitian and model. Nine years later, they divorced.
Errol Musk’s History Of Cruelty
She accused him in a 2019 memoir of physical and verbal abuse, which Errol denied.
In the biography, the billionaire described his difficult relationship with his father.
Elon recounted how after he confronted a school bully as a child and lost a fight. He said his father berated him for an hour.
Errol had a brief marriage with his second wife, Sue Wilson, before marrying his third bride, Mari Bezuidenhout, in 1992.
She was about 19 years his junior, and had three young children with her first husband. who had died in a car accident. Together, they soon had a daughter.
In 1993, Errol’s four-year-old stepdaughter confided in her aunt, Ms. Smit, that Errol had put her on a row of rubbish bins at the family residence in Pretoria and touched her, The New York Times reported.
As part of a divorce settlement, Ms. Bezuidenhout, who suffers from mental health issues, later withdrew charges against Errol.
Errol Musk gave her a house, car and monthly allowance as part of the divorce settlement.
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After the divorce, Errol claimed a judge had granted him custody of their young daughter and that two judges rejected the abuse allegations.
Ms. Bezuidenhout was only allowed to visit the children with a social worker present, he said.
Ms. Bezuidenhout briefly married and divorced a third husband in 1996 before entering a psychiatric hospital after suffering from depression, according to family members.
Her three children from her first marriage were put into an independent welfare home.
She remarried Errol in 1999, who retained custody of their daughter.
Her three other children left welfare care in 2000 and the following year, Errol and Ms. Bezuidenhout had another daughter.
In 2002, Errol, Ms. Bezuidenhout and their family travelled to visit Elon in California, who had bought them a $2million house in Malibu.
His stepdaughter, then 14, went to her room one day and discovered Errol sniffing her dirty underwear.
Errol denied the accusation. He was cleaning up her room after returning from a trip.
However, relatives alerted the police and filed a complaint with child protective services in Los Angeles.
Ms. Bezuidenhout then petitioned for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court. She cited ‘irreconcilable differences’, and requested custody of the children. However, the court dismissed the petition in 2009 for inaction.
Elon Musk Moves His Father To A Boat In Los Angeles
Following the abuse allegations, Elon moved his father to a boat in Los Angeles and then back to South Africa.
Family members said Elon wanted to keep the children in California to protect them from his father.
In 2009, Errol’s former stepdaughter, then 21, accused him of kissing her and sticking his tongue into her mouth.
Errol accused her of pouncing on him in a spare bedroom while he was sleeping. She ‘inappropriately kissed me,’ he told The New York Times.
In the interim protection order, she also directly accused him of sexually abusing his two daughters with Ms. Bezuidenhout and his stepson, years before he had died aged 16 in 2006.
Errol dismissed the accusations that he had abused his stepson as ‘nonsense.’ He described the allegations as ‘absurd’.
Errol Musk Knocks Up His Step-Daughter
The former stepdaughter dropped out of college and fell into drugs before going to a rehab.
She said this was due to traumatic experiences growing up.
In 2011, Ms. Smit, the sister of Ms. Bezuidenhout, wrote to Elon for urgent help.
Elon would later pay for her to stay in a rehabilitation clinic.
The former stepdaughter now 29 years-old reached out to Errol for support.
They became intimate, Errol said in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times, calling them both ‘lonely, lost people’.
‘One thing led to another — you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan,’ he said.
He also said that he and his former stepdaughter had children together in 2017 and 2019, but she told The New York Times that she only has one child with Errol.
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