Errol Musk

Errol Musk (born 1946) is a retired South African pilot, sailor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, consultant, property developer, and emerald mining magnate.
He is the father of business magnate and billionaire Elon Musk, restauranteur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk. He has been married to Maye Musk and also to Heide Bezuidenhout, and has two children with Bezuidenhout's daughter Jana Bezuidenhout.
Early life and education
Errol Musk was born in South Africa in 1946 to a South African father and a British mother.
Career
He worked as a pilot, a sailor, an electrical, a mechanical engineer, a consultant, and a property developer, before retiring early. which he funded by selling an airplane.
Family
Musk met Maye Haldeman when he was 11 years old and they were childhood friends before marrying in 1970. She gave birth to their son Elon in 1971, and the family lived in Pretoria, where Maye worked as a dietician and a model. Later in life, after splitting from Heide Bezuidenhout, he fathered two children with her daughter (his former step-daughter) Jana Bezuidenhout; a son born in 2017 and a daughter born in 2019. At the time of their daughter's birth, according to , Musk was 72 and Jana Bezuidenhout was 30 years old. He has a total of seven children and as of 2022 lives in South Africa.
 
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