Elon Musk is said to have told his father he was “real busy” after Errol announced he had welcomed a child with his stepdaughter.
The tech billionaire’s surprise reaction to the shocking news in 2018 is claimed to have stood in sharp contrast to the response from his dad Errol Musk’s three “concerned” daughters, The US Sun reports.
Errol, 76, said when he notified the Tesla founder, 51, that he and his stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout had welcomed a baby boy called Elliot Rush, Elon told him: “Okay, I got it, but I'm real busy right now. I’ll speak to you in due course.”
The revelation comes after Errol exclusively told how he’s had a second unplanned child with 34-year-old Jana in a bombshell interview with The Sun.
It had previously been reported that Elon went “berserk” when he found out his South African engineer dad had fathered a child with Jana.
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The baby, affectionately nicknamed Rushi, is now five, while the baby girl Errol claims he also had with Jana is aged three.
Jana is 42 years younger than Errol and he has raised her since she was four.
Explaining how he let his older kids know of Rushi’s arrival, Errol told The Sun: “I notified all my children. I said take it or leave it. And my youngest son, Kimbal, his initial reaction was: ‘It happens’.
“Elon’s was, ‘Okay, I got it, but I'm real busy right now. I’ll speak to you in due course’.
“My three daughters all said ‘Jeez’, because Jana’s their half-sister. Tosca, Rose and Allie, Alexandra. They were like, ‘How could Jana do this?’
“And they still don’t like it. They still feel a bit creepy about it, because she’s their sister. Their half-sister.
“They were more concerned [than the boys].”
Errol was married to Jana’s mother Heide for 18 years and they had daughters Rose and Alexandra together.
He had his three eldest children Elon, Kimbal, 49, and Tosca, 47, with first wife Maye Musk.
When asked by The Sun if he would have a third child with Jana, Errol replied: “God, are you kidding? Have you seen what she looks like?
“I mean, she’s tall. She’s five foot nine. She’s thin. She walks like an antelope, with grace.
“You watch her walk and you think, ‘Jesus God, what is that? Who walks like that?’
“She has long hands, long fingers. Everything looks good, you know? Her face is so beautiful. There are no words for it.”
Couple’s second child was ‘unplanned’
Errol has told The Sun his purported second child with Jana was “unplanned” but that he was living with her after the birth of their son.
“I haven’t checked her DNA. But she looks just like my other daughters. She looks like Rose and Tosca mixed up,” he said.
“She looks exactly like Rushi and she behaves like him. So it’s pretty obvious you know.”
He added: “She wasn’t planned. But I mean, we were living together. She [Jana] stayed here for about 18 months after Rushi was born.
“But I realised she’s two generations behind whereas her mother was one generation behind when I married her.
“So any man who marries a 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.
“I married her mother when she was 25 and I was 45. She was probably one of the best looking women I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Errol and Jana’s huge age gap
Errol said he no longer lives with Jana but confirmed they “have a lot of affection for each other”.
“But the thing is it’s not practical,” he said. “She’s 35 next birthday. So she’s getting on. So eventually if I’m still around she might wind up back with me. It’s difficult.
“I mean, I would much rather have them here. But Jana came and spent a few days here about six months ago. And the kids were starting to get on my nerves.
“Then I miss them as soon as they have gone.”
As for having more children, Errol said: “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.
“If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.
“If I had thought about it then Elon or Kimbal wouldn’t exist.”
Errol said he is no stranger to women claiming to have had his child.
“I have about six people, women who claim that their child is my child right now. Obviously they are opportunists.
“There was a period in Johannesburg in the eighties that I was going out with different woman every night. I had plenty of dates.
“So it’s quite conceivable that one of them could actually come back and say, this is your child. It’s possible.
“But I haven’t had anything genuine presented to me. But I’ve got a lot of people claiming.”
Speaking to The Sun earlier this month, Errol appeared to hint at his son Elon’s political ambitions.
He also joked about his son’s number of kids after the tech titan appeared to confirm he had twins with one of his top executives.
Errol said that he finds it hard to “keep track” of his grandchildren.
Elon welcomes twins
It emerged on July 6 that Elon Musk had welcomed two more kids with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
Shivon, 36, is the third woman the entrepreneur has had kids with.
Errol claimed that his son had been called a highly offensive slur by teachers when he was seven.
Musk’s father has been revealing details about his relationship with Elon and the tycoon’s mum, Maye, 74.
He denies claims that he has had a bad relationship with his son for years.
In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Elon described his dad as a “terrible human being” and claimed his childhood was “painful and isolated.”
Meanwhile, Elon’s strained relationship with one of his children was thrust into the spotlight last month after the teen filed a petition to change her gender.
The legal document revealed that the former Xavier Alexander Musk, 18, wanted to change her gender identity from male to female and be known as Vivian Jenna Wilson.
She said she’s changing her name because she “no longer lives with or wishes to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
On Father’s Day, Musk tweeted that he loved all of his kids “so much”.
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When initially approached by The Sun, Jana declined to comment.
The Sun has contacted a representative of Elon’s for comment.
This article originally appeared on the US Sun and was reproduced with permission
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