Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa. Within the 2015 biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Improbable Future, creator Ashlee Vance wrote that Elon and his dad had a troublesome relationship. In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his mother and father break up, he moved in with his dad, which, he mentioned, “was not a good suggestion.”
Errol informed Rolling Stone, “I really like my kids and would readily do no matter for them.”
In a 2015 Forbes interview, Elon’s dad mentioned he used to take his children on journeys abroad. “Their mom and I break up up once they had been fairly younger and the children stayed with me,” he mentioned. “I took them everywhere in the world.”
After divorcing Elon’s mom Maye, Errol married Heide, mom of Jana Bezuidenhout, who was 4 years {old} on the time. Errol and Heidi went on to have two daughters collectively earlier than they too broke up. In 2017, Errol and Jana had a baby together, son Elliot. They welcomed a second youngster, a daughter, in 2019.