Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s South African family includes several millionaire entrepreneurs and a supermodel mother – but how many times has he married?
The tech CEO and philanthropist’s siblings and cousins have also launched successful start-ups, while Musk’s home life includes five sons from his first marriage and one with current girlfriend Grimes
Elon Musk has had a wild life, but he’s not the only one in his family who has launched businesses, made millions, or achieved fame.
Musk’s family hails from South Africa and Canada, and is chock-full of entrepreneurs and rebels, from his filmmaker sister Tosca to his actress ex-wife, Talulah Riley. Now, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has a new member of the family: a baby boy born in May to his girlfriend, the musician Grimes.
Musk, who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, before emigrating to Canada and, eventually, California, already had a large immediate family that includes two ex-wives, a set of twins, and a set of triplets.
Here’s a closer look at the Musk family tree.
Errol Musk, Elon’s father, is an engineer from South Africa
Errol Musk, according to Elon, has a genius-level IQ and was reportedly the youngest person to earn a professional engineer’s qualification in South Africa, according to a 2017 Rolling Stone profile.
When Elon was a child, he moved in with his dad after this parents divorced. At the time, Errol Musk was working in construction and emerald mining, according to Rolling Stone.
Errol Musk made headlines in 2018 when it was revealed that he had a child with his then-30-year-old former stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, whom he’d known since she was four years old.
Today, father and son are estranged. The Tesla CEO told Rolling Stone that his father is “a terrible human being … you have no idea about how bad,” Musk said. “Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done.”