Elon Musk’s Estranged Father Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse: Report
The allegations, laid out in an investigation by The New York Times, span from the 1990s to 2023.
A new investigation from The New York Times details multiple child sexual abuse allegations against Elon Musk’s estranged father, businessman Errol Musk.
The report lays out allegations he abused five of his children and stepchildren, citing police and court records, a collection of over 50 emails, text messages, personal notes and letters, as well as interviews with social workers and family members.
Errol Musk has at least nine children and stepchildren, the eldest of whom is billionaire Elon Musk.
He has been married to three women. The allegations largely come from his children and former stepchildren with his third wife, Heide-Mari Bezuidenhout.
In 1993, Errol Musk’s then 4-year-old stepdaughter told her aunt that he had touched her. In another incident a decade later, that stepdaughter said she found him sniffing her underwear.
When the stepdaughter was in her 20s, she said she had a child with Errol Musk.
That same stepdaughter later filed for an interim protection order against Errol Musk in South Africa, where she accused him of abusing two of the daughters and stepson he shared with Bezuidenhout. A letter a relative sent to Elon Musk around 2010 included the same allegations.
In 2023, the then 5-year-old son Errol Musk shares with his former stepdaughter (same stepdaughter mentioned above) reportedly told family that his father had groped his buttocks.
Errol Musk, who has not been convicted of any crimes related to the allegations or investigations, strongly denied the accusations in a response to questions from the Times.
He called the reports “false and nonsense in the extreme,” alleging they were fabricated by family members who were “putting the children up to say false things” in order to manipulate Elon Musk for financial support.
While Elon Musk rarely comments on his father in public, he has not hidden the fact they are estranged.
He told Walter Isaacson, the author of his 2023 biography, that he does not speak to his father. In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, he claimed his father had done “almost every evil thing you could possibly think of.”
Need help? Visit RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.
