Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren — including a stepdaughter that he shares a child with, according to a report.
The world’s richest man has found himself entangled in family upheaval surrounding his 79-year-old father over three generations, and at times has tried to intercede, according to letters, emails and interviews in a New York Times investigation.
He has financially supported his former stepsister, who has had at least one child with her stepfather Errol Musk; offered to pay for that stepsister’s rehab; and tried to keep the children far away from Errol in California, family members told the Times.
The first accusation against Errol occurred in 1993, when his stepdaughter, then 4, told relatives that he had placed her on garbage cans outside their house and touched her, according to the report.
A decade later, the stepdaughter said she caught Errol in her bedroom sniffing her dirty underwear.
Some family members have also accused Errol of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson.
As recently as 2023, family members and a social worker tried to intervene after his then 5-year-old son – who he shares with his stepdaughter – said his father had groped his butt.
Three separate police investigations were opened, but two ended and it’s unclear what happened to the third, according to the Times.
Errol – who has at least nine children and stepchildren and has been married to three women – has not been convicted of any crime.
Errol Musk has “left a massive wound in our family,” Elmie Smit, whose sister Heide-Mari Bezuidenhout was Errol’s third wife and mother of the stepdaughter, told the New York Times.
Errol told the Times that “the reports are false and nonsense in the extreme.”
He blamed family members for “putting the children up to say false things” in an attempt to get money from Elon Musk.
Errol, an engineer and alleged former emerald mine owner, has claimed he is close with Elon Musk. But Musk said in a 2023 biography that he is not in touch with his father.
In 2017, he apparently teared up as he told Rolling Stone magazine that his father had done “almost every evil thing you could possibly think of.”
Elon Musk’s lawyer did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Family members have grown angry at Errol’s recent apparent attempts to capitalize on Elon’s fame, by launching a Musk-themed meme coin and discussing plans to build a Musk tower in Dubai, according to the report.
He told the Times he was “not associated” with the projects.
The stepdaughter, who is now 37, told the Times that Elon sends her money monthly and has bought her a car.
“Elon has always been there,” she told the New York Times.
Her mother, Errol’s third wife Bezuidenhout, withdrew charges against Errol as part of a divorce settlement, which included a house, car and monthly allowance, family members told the Times.
She then briefly married and divorced a third husband before entering a psychiatric hospital, her family told the Times.
Her three children from her first husband – who died in a car accident – entered a welfare home.
Bezuidenhout eventually remarried Errol and removed the children from the welfare home.
“The scariest thing that I’ve learned is that the kids preferred living in the children’s home than with either you or Heide,” Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, wrote in an email to their father, who had been asking Elon for money.
One day, as the family was headed to a movie, Errol’s stepdaughter, then 14, said she went back to her bedroom to grab a sweatshirt when she found her stepfather sniffing her dirty underwear, according to family members and personal notes.
Errol denied the accusation, claiming he had been cleaning her room after returning from a trip and finding the house “in a terrible state.”
Bezuidenhout divorced Errol for a second time. Soon after, her youngest son, then 16, died in a car accident.
She wrote to Elon that she was “in a very bad situation” and living in a house without a bathroom or kitchen.
Elon, then chief executive of Tesla, paid a contractor to work on Bezuidenhout’s house and funded private school tuition for his half sisters, according to family members and emails.
The former stepdaughter, meanwhile, had fallen into drug use, spending time in jail for allegedly stealing jewelry from Errol and her mother to pay for the drugs, according to the report.
Bezuidenhout reconnected with Errol once again, bringing her children along.
The stepdaughter, then 21, was home from college one night when she claimed Errol kissed her and stuck his tongue in her mouth, according to her application for an interim protection order, which she was granted.
Errol told the Times that she had pounced on him while he was sleeping and “inappropriately kissed me.”
In her protection order, the stepdaughter also accused Errol of sexually abusing his two daughters with Bezuidenhout and his stepson before he died in the car crash. Errol called these accusations “nonsense” and “absurd.”
In 2011, Smit wrote to Elon Musk for help. Musk’s assistant said Elon would pay for the stepdaughter to stay in a rehabilitation clinic.
The stepdaughter went to rehab for a week or two, and then became homeless, according to family members.
She later reached out to Errol, at age 29, and they became intimate, Errol said in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times.
They were “lonely, lost people,” he said. “One thing led to another — you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”
In 2022, their son, then 5, said “dad gropes his behind,” Bezuidenhout, the boy’s grandmother, texted a relative the following year, according to the Times.
“He screamed, ‘no dad.’”
Relatives contacted the police as recently as last year, according to text messages and emails viewed by the Times.
