“The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.”
This is what Elon Musk’s 76-year-old father Errol Musk had to say when he confirmed that he has a second secret child with his step-daughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, who is 41 years younger than him. He had the child with her three years ago, reported Business Today.
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In 2017, the duo had their first child, Elliot Rush, who is now five years old. Errol Musk revealed that the second child was unplanned. Even though he hasn’t done a DNA test on the baby, he revealed that its features matched with those of his daughters, Rose and Tosca.
In case you didn’t know, Errol Musk married Maye Haldeman Musk in 1970. They had three children together – Elon, Kimbal and Tosca. In 1979, the two split and Errol went on to get married again, this time to Heide Bezuidenhout, a widow who already had two children and one of them was Jana, reported New York Post.
Jana was just 4 years old when she came to her step-father Errol who went on to raise her. Errol and Heide got divorced after being married for 18 years.
But the entire Musk family was in for a shock when they found out that Jana was pregnant with Errol’s baby in 2017. The family had a fallout. Elon Musk was allegedly furious that his father had impregnated his step-sister and the siblings were very uncomfortable with the entire situation. In an earlier interview, Elon had called his dad a “terrible human being”.
“They still don’t like it. They still feel a bit creepy about it, because she’s their sister. Their half-sister,” Errol said.
However, Errol and Jana aren’t together and their 41-year-old age gap is to be blamed for it.
“It’s not practical. She’s 35. Eventually, if I’m still around, she might wind up back with me. Any man who marries a [younger] woman, even if you feel very sprightly, it’s going to be nice for a while, but there’s a big gap … and that gap is going to show itself,” he said.
Elon Musk himself has fathered 10 children with different women.
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