Elon Musk’s dad accused of sexually abusing his youngsters: report

Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing 5 of his youngsters and stepchildren — together with a stepdaughter that he shares a toddler with, in accordance with a report.

The world’s richest man has discovered himself entangled in household upheaval surrounding his 79-year-old father over three generations, and at occasions has tried to intercede, in accordance with letters, emails and interviews in a New York Occasions investigation.

He has financially supported his former stepsister, who has had at the least one youngster together with her stepfather Errol Musk; supplied to pay for that stepsister’s rehab; and tried to maintain the kids far-off from Errol in California, relations instructed the Occasions.

The primary accusation towards Errol occurred in 1993, when his stepdaughter, then 4, instructed kinfolk that he had positioned her on rubbish cans outdoors their home and touched her, in accordance with the report.

A decade later, the stepdaughter mentioned she caught Errol in her bed room sniffing her soiled underwear.

Some relations have additionally accused Errol of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson.

As not too long ago as 2023, relations and a social employee tried to intervene after his then 5-year-old son – who he shares along with his stepdaughter – mentioned his father had groped his butt.

Three separate police investigations had been opened, however two ended and it’s unclear what occurred to the third, in accordance with the Occasions. 

Errol – who has at the least 9 youngsters and stepchildren and has been married to 3 girls – has not been convicted of any crime.

Errol Musk has “left a large wound in our household,” Elmie Smit, whose sister Heide-Mari Bezuidenhout was Errol’s third spouse and mom of the stepdaughter, instructed the New York Occasions.

Errol instructed the Occasions that “the studies are false and nonsense within the excessive.” 

He blamed relations for “placing the kids as much as say false issues” in an try and get cash from Elon Musk.

Errol, an engineer and alleged former emerald mine proprietor, has claimed he’s shut with Elon Musk. However Musk mentioned in a 2023 biography that he’s not in contact along with his father.

In 2017, he apparently teared up as he instructed Rolling Stone journal that his father had accomplished “virtually each evil factor you can probably consider.”

Elon Musk’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to The Publish’s request for remark.

Members of the family have grown indignant at Errol’s current obvious makes an attempt to capitalize on Elon’s fame, by launching a Musk-themed meme coin and discussing plans to construct a Musk tower in Dubai, in accordance with the report.

He instructed the Occasions he was “not related” with the initiatives.

The stepdaughter, who’s now 37, instructed the Occasions that Elon sends her cash month-to-month and has purchased her a automotive.

“Elon has all the time been there,” she instructed the New York Occasions.

Her mom, Errol’s third spouse Bezuidenhout, withdrew expenses towards Errol as a part of a divorce settlement, which included a home, automotive and month-to-month allowance, relations instructed the Occasions.

She then briefly married and divorced a 3rd husband earlier than coming into a psychiatric hospital, her household instructed the Occasions.

Her three youngsters from her first husband – who died in a automotive accident – entered a welfare residence.

Bezuidenhout finally remarried Errol and eliminated the kids from the welfare residence.

“The scariest factor that I’ve discovered is that the children most popular residing within the youngsters’s residence than with both you or Heide,” Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, wrote in an electronic mail to their father, who had been asking Elon for cash. 

At some point, because the household was headed to a film, Errol’s stepdaughter, then 14, mentioned she went again to her bed room to seize a sweatshirt when she discovered her stepfather sniffing her soiled underwear, in accordance with relations and private notes.

Errol denied the accusation, claiming he had been cleansing her room after coming back from a visit and discovering the home “in a horrible state.”

Bezuidenhout divorced Errol for a second time. Quickly after, her youngest son, then 16, died in a automotive accident.

She wrote to Elon that she was “in a really unhealthy state of affairs” and residing in a home with out a rest room or kitchen.

Elon, then chief govt of Tesla, paid a contractor to work on Bezuidenhout’s home and funded personal college tuition for his half sisters, in accordance with relations and emails.

The previous stepdaughter, in the meantime, had fallen into drug use, spending time in jail for allegedly stealing jewellery from Errol and her mom to pay for the medication, in accordance with the report.

Bezuidenhout reconnected with Errol as soon as once more, bringing her youngsters alongside. 

The stepdaughter, then 21, was residence from school one evening when she claimed Errol kissed her and caught his tongue in her mouth, in accordance with her utility for an interim safety order, which she was granted. 

Errol instructed the Occasions that she had pounced on him whereas he was sleeping and “inappropriately kissed me.”

In her safety order, the stepdaughter additionally accused Errol of sexually abusing his two daughters with Bezuidenhout and his stepson earlier than he died within the automotive crash. Errol referred to as these accusations “nonsense” and “absurd.”

In 2011, Smit wrote to Elon Musk for assist. Musk’s assistant mentioned Elon would pay for the stepdaughter to remain in a rehabilitation clinic.

The stepdaughter went to rehab for every week or two, after which grew to become homeless, in accordance with relations.

She later reached out to Errol, at age 29, and so they grew to become intimate, Errol mentioned in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Occasions.

They had been “lonely, misplaced individuals,” he mentioned. “One factor led to a different — you’ll be able to name it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”

In 2022, their son, then 5, mentioned “dad gropes his behind,” Bezuidenhout, the boy’s grandmother, texted a relative the next yr, in accordance with the Occasions.

“He screamed, ‘no dad.’”

Kinfolk contacted the police as not too long ago as final yr, in accordance with textual content messages and emails seen by the Occasions.