Elon Musk’s dad Errol says fathering baby with his own step-daughter was a ‘one-off mistake’ while he was her shoulder to cry on
TESLA tycoon Elon Musk's dad has claimed fathering a baby with his own step-daughter was a "one-off mistake" when he was her shoulder to cry on.
Errol, 72, from Cape Town, South Africa, was accused of "splitting the family" after it was revealed his sixth child, Elliot Rush, was conceived "in the heat of the moment".
Elon is said to have gone "berserk" when he found out his South African engineer dad was having a child with Jana Bezuidenhout, who lived with him while growing up.
Errol said Jana's boyfriend had just thrown her out of his house, she slept over at his house.
He told Rapport newspaper: "I do not want to call it a mistake because no child wants to hear that they were a mistake.
"You have to understand I've been single for 20 years and I'm just a man who makes mistakes."
Errol was married to Jana's mother Heide for 18 years and had two children together, but he bizarrely told the Mail he could "barely remember" the relationship.
A source confirmed to the news website that Errol was the father of 10-month-old Elliot Rush Musk, adding that it had "split the family".
Another relative said: "Errol got Jana pregnant. He is the father of her baby boy. But he was a father to her.
"The whole family was outraged when we found out. This is the reason why Elon is so angry with Errol. He is the only father she has ever known. And now he is the father of her child as well."
It comes after Elon tearfully claimed his father was "a terrible human being" who "plans evil".
Speaking to the Rolling Stone magazine: "My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil.
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"He will plan evil. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done.
"Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it."
Last week Errol accused his eldest son of effectively holding him hostage in America, and said he needed "to grow up".
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