Errol Musk is Elon’s father, and the 76-year-old South African recently confirmed to The Sun that he’s had a second child with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. Musk has had a rocky relationship with the world’s richest man since he divorced Elon’s mother, Maye. However, the family patriarch insists that things are now better between them. 

Musk made most of his fortune from consulting jobs and developing properties. Though he always had an interest in real estate, Errol Musk is also an engineer, a sailor, and a pilot.

As a real estate developer, Musk owned several mines and there was news that he also owned an emerald mine but it later turned out that Elon’s father only had a stake in it. Owing to his professional success, Musk partially retired by 1980 and spent his time travelling. 

Despite his professional success, Musk’s personal life has been marked by many scandals, and the South American told the British tabloid that several women tell him their children are his. However, he made them out to be opportunistic and was open about his time when he was socially, and understandably, sexually active. 

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“There was [a] period in Johannesburg in the eighties that I was going out with different woman every night. I had plenty of dates. So it’s quite conceivable that one of them could actually come back and say, this is your child. It’s possible”, he told The Sun. 

Errol’s family has other adventurous stories as well. His grandmother was the first chiropractor in Canada and his parents became the first to fly from South Africa to Australia in a single-engine plane. 

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After a successful career, Errol Musk’s net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. He was, however, always well off, since Musk could afford to admit Elon to the prestigious Pretoria Boys High School, after the billionaire had to be removed from his previous Bryanston High School, due to Elon having problems with his schoolmates.