Elon Musk's Father Discloses Secret Second Child With His Step-Daughter 3 Years After Birth
In 2017, Jana's first pregnancy with Errol's child shocked the Musks and led to a bitter fallout between Elon and his father.
New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's 76-year-old father Errol Musk has disclosed that he had a secret second child, with his 35-year-old stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout three years ago. According to a report by the New York Post, Errol Musk in an interview with a British tabloid admitted that he welcomed a baby girl with Elon's stepsister, Jana in 2019.
The 76-year-old South African engineer stated, "The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce."
Errol and Heide have two biological children together. The couple welcomed their first child, a boy, Elliot Rush in the year 2017. Jana Bezuidenhout is the daughter of Errol's second wife Heide Bezuidenhout, whom he married after splitting with Elon's mother Maye Haldeman Musk in 1979.
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Errol also helped raise Jana, who was just 4 years old when he became her stepfather. Errol and Heide got divorced after 18 years, as per New York Post.
"It's not practical. She's 35, eventually, if I'm still around, she might wind up back with me," Errol added to his statement.
In 2017, Jana's first pregnancy with Errol's child shocked the Musks and reportedly led to a bitter fallout between Elon and his father. "They still don't like it .. they still feel a bit creepy about it, because she's their sister. Their half-sister," Errol said, as quoted by the New York Post, when asked about how his family reacted to the shocking news of Jana's pregnancy.
Notably, it was recently revealed that Elon Musk fathered two children with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his artificial intelligence company Neuralink, weeks before his second child with Grimes was born, the New York Post reported.
Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. The revelation of his two other children brought the Tesla CEO's total count of children to nine.
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