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Topics: Elon Musk, News, Parenting, Sex and Relationships
Lucy Devine
Topics: Elon Musk, News, Parenting, Sex and Relationships
Elon Musk's dad has left people furious with a comment he made about his stepdaughter after finding out she was pregnant with his child.
In 2017, Errol Musk, now 79, fathered his stepdaughter's child after raising her since she was four years old.
Jana is 41 years younger than Errol and was believed to be in her late twenties when she became pregnant with son, Rushi.
In a recent interview, Errol has spoken about the moment he found out he had fathered his stepdaughter's child.
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Speaking to Joshua Rubin on the Wide Awake podcast, he explained: "When she came here for three weeks we spent a lot of time together and we just got on terribly well.
"Then she left. A couple of months later, she called me and said she needs to see me, so she came, we sat out there and she sat there and she showed me a scan.
"She said, 'I'm pregnant'. I'm not sure what I said exactly but I'm pretty sure I said 'it's not me'. So she said, 'it is you', so I said I didn't really believe that because that's standard story from women, you know.
"The results came back 99.9 per cent my child."
People were left furious by one comment Errol made in particular, with a listener writing: "Sleeping with your own stepdaughter and then having the audacity not to believe her, when you literally RAISED HER."
While another said: "'Standard story from women' this man irks me." And a third added: “'Standard story from women' - the man who slept with his stepdaughter 40 years his junior."
In 2022, Errol told The Sun that he had gone on to have a second child with Jana, born in 2019.
"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.
"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 woman I've ever seen in my life."
Errol married Maye Haldeman Musk in 1970 and had three children - Elon, Kimbal and Tosca.
He later went on to marry Jana's mother, Heide Bezuidenhout.