Errol Musk, the father of tech tycoon Elon Musk, has said that he has fathered a second kid with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, who is 35 years old. This child was not intended.
Errol, who is 76 years old, said in an interview with The Sun that he and Bezuidenhout, who is 35 years old, had been parents to a girl for the last three years.
It was revealed in 2018 that Errol had a son with Bezuidenhout, who is 41 years his younger and whom he had nurtured from the age of four. The child’s name is Elliot Rush and he is now five years old. His nickname is Rushi.
When Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, learned that his South African engineer father was having a kid with Bezuidenhout, who had lived with him when he was growing up, he is said to have “gone insane,” as per reports.
Bezuidenhout’s mother, Heide, and Errol were married for a total of 18 years and had two children together during that time.
Now Errol has revealed that he has informed his putative second kid with Bezuidenhout was “unplanned,” but that he was living with her after the birth of their son. He also stated that he was living with her after the birth of their son.
“She was not part of the plan. But what I mean is that we’ll be sharing a home. After Rushi was born, she (Bezuidenhout) remained in our house for almost 18 months, according to what Musk’s father was reported as saying.
Although Errol said that he does not now live with his stepdaughter, he did affirm that the two “have a lot of love for one other.”
Errol was asked about the possibility of having more children, and he responded by saying, “The only reason we are here on Earth is to reproduce.” I would want to have another kid if it were possible. I just don’t see why we shouldn’t do it.”
“Neither Elon nor Kimbal would have been born,” he said, “because I would have thought about it.”
Errol does concede that his other daughters were “shocked” by his connection with Bezuidenhout because “to them, it was their sister.” However, he does not explain why they were “shocked.”
“To this day and, they continue to dislike it. Because she is their sister, they continue to have some uneasiness with the situation. Their half-sister, he went on to say.
Earlier, he made a joke about his son’s number of children after a business titan seemed to disclose he had twins with one of his top employees. The remark was in response to the tech titan’s statement that he had two children with the executive.
He claimed that he had a difficult time “keeping track” of his grandkids because of his busy schedule.
Elon Musk is said to have secretly fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, in November 2021. This occurred just a few weeks before he welcomed a second child with his ex-girlfriend Grimes via surrogacy in December. The reports that surfaced recently suggest that these events took place.