While I have Elon Musk blocked on social media and that might contribute to my sense of things, it does feel like Elon has been suspiciously quiet in recent months, right? He left the Trump White House in late May, and after that, his biggest debacle came in July when he added code to Twitter’s Grok and turned Grok into a malfunctioning neo-Nazi chatbot. Since then, pretty quiet, right? But Elon is rather famous for accusing his enemies of being “groomers” or “child abusers” or worse. He has a long history of throwing out those kinds of accusations online. Well, one thing you’ll never catch Elon doing is acknowledging the child molesters in his own family. Namely, his father, Errol Musk. Elon is quite close to his mother Maye Musk, but he’s estranged from his father. We’ve also heard, over the years, that the Errol Musk side of the family is really screwed up and Errol had a child with his stepdaughter. Well, the NY Times did a larger investigation into Errol Musk and the Musk clan, and it’s much, much worse than anyone suspected.
A New York Times investigation found that a significant factor in Elon Musk’s rupture with his father stems from accusations against Errol Musk of child sex abuse. The allegations have repeatedly spilled over into Elon Musk’s life as relatives have contacted him for help and he has sometimes taken action to intercede, according to personal letters, emails and interviews with family members.
The family’s troubles have entangled Elon Musk in a painful three-decade multigenerational saga that continues to trail him. The fallout has kept the 54-year-old mogul tethered to South Africa, where he was born and where Errol Musk lives. The allegations against Errol Musk involve five of his children and stepchildren, whom he was accused of abusing in South Africa and California, according to police and court records, personal correspondence, social workers and interviews with family members.
The earliest accusation was in 1993 when Errol Musk’s stepdaughter, then 4 years old, told relatives he had touched her at the family house. A decade later, the stepdaughter said she caught him sniffing her dirty underwear. Some family members have also accused Errol Musk of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson. And as recently as 2023, family members and a social worker attempted to intervene after his then 5-year-old son said his father had groped his buttocks.
Three separate police investigations were opened, according to police and court records, as well as family members. Two of the inquiries ended, while it’s unclear what happened in the third. Errol Musk, 79, has not been convicted of any crime.
The abuse allegations have caused strife within the Musk family, with some relatives turning to Elon Musk — who is Errol Musk’s eldest child — for help. Around 2010, one relative wrote Elon Musk a five-page letter about some of the accusations and implored him to intervene.
“We really need your advice, help and guidance in these matters because we daily see these children suffer,” the relative wrote in the letter, which was viewed by The Times.
It was unclear if Elon Musk read the letter. But an assistant for him messaged a family member after relatives wrote to him about the abuse allegations. The billionaire has also provided financial support for his stepfamily and siblings from his father’s third marriage. He once tried to keep those family members in California, where they would be far from Errol Musk. He was not involved in the police investigations in South Africa.
Errol Musk, who has at least nine children and stepchildren and has been married to three women, maintains a powerful grip over much of the family. The former stepdaughter, whom he was accused of touching when she was 4, said she later had a child with him when she was in her 20s. She has struggled with drug use, while her mother — who married Errol Musk twice — has grappled with mental health issues.
The NYT report includes a denial from Errol and Elon’s people basically just said “no comment.” If Elon really has tried to help his half-siblings or stepsiblings, then it’s probably one of the only decent things he’s done in his life. Apparently, Elon has brought at least a few family members to America and provided them with money and some help to get set up. It makes me wonder about Elon’s talk (and consequentially, Donald Trump’s rants) about the “white genocide” in South Africa, and the need to bring white South Africans to America to save them from the fictitious “white genocide.” Is there a connection? Who knows? While no one is saying that Elon is responsible for his father’s criminal behavior, it is SO weird that Elon is always accusing innocent people of the crimes his father committed.
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This certainly explains ( not excuses) alot. Especially the attraction to rotten, fascist wannabe dictators who have beautiful secrets with convicted pedophiles.
Elon’s random accusations that seem to centre on his father’s sins makes perfect sense. He is projecting what he knows / what he has lived / his experience.
And his relationship with Trump shows he is trapped in a trauma cycle. Musk really needs therapy because he is carrying some very heavy baggage.
It’s why he is addicted to Ketamine hoping it will down regulate his over worked nervous system.
Above all, he projected all his anger onto all weaker and “illegal” people and continued to worship the highly ambivalent father figure Trump, from whom he felt elevated to heaven and then disappointed beyond measure. This kind of split between idealisation and contempt for authority figures occurs when traumas are neither acknowledged nor the weak, broken parts of the personality accepted. They are projected outwards and destroyed in other people by destroying their existence.
But of course he is fully responsible for what he does.
For a long time I thought he was brilliant in his technical ideas – without this background he might have taken a different trajectory.
Muskrat is the fruit of a poisonous tree. no surprises here
I can’t stand Elon, but none of this is his fault or seems to have much to do with him other than causing psychological harm. My family is full of abusers too, and honestly, it sounds like he’s quietly been trying to use his money to protect the victims, which is a favorable contrast with his other recent actions. I wish he showed as much (or any) compassion toward those dying of preventable disease Africa as a result of his destruction of USAID.
His ability to compartmentalize makes me think he is a psychopath.
Not true – he is heavily implicated along with his older brother and his mother.
Relatives literally begged Elon and his brother to do something even in California when his dad was there but Elon was part of the cover up.
By Elon’s own admission he continued to financially support his father despite a condition of that support being ‘not to do bad things’, but Errol continued to ‘do bad things’. He knows his father is a predator and continues to support him.
I don’t understand his support of the pedo-in-chief then. I’m sure psychologists could explain this as some sort of projection but to me it’s a mystery. I have read that many abusers were abused as children. It’s like the whole country is trapped in a trauma cycle.
As others have said, nothing excuses Elon Musk’s behavior, but this does raise questions about his own relationship with his father. It may explain a lot. He is warped in many ways.
Not only all this in elon musk biography, he maintained that his father use to take him to sex orgies. This is why he has weird complex when it comes to kids. I mean he has roughly 9 siblings and step siblings and he was older than all of them . He also take financial support to them, their kids and even his cousins too.
So he’s arguing that he, who literally had two children with his STEPDAUGHTER – which means he had sex with her twice, at the very least – couldn’t have possibly been sexually involved with her before, when she specifically reported it and stood to gain absolutely nothing from the accusation? He slept with her MOTHER that he married and then his STEPDAUGHTER that he raised since she was at least FOUR YEARS OLD. But you draw the line at child abuse? Newsflash: grooming a child you RAISED and then having sex with them IS child abuse. To have the audacity, the gall, and the gumption to even claim that the abuse “allegations” are false when we have the evidence of it in his two children with his stepdaughter right there is truly peak rich white man privilege.
Well, this explains A LOT.
You know who else was a depraved monster to his children — Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine was his favourite child (out of 8) and I often wonder if it tipped over into sexual abuse. He used to flog his kids with his belt in front of the entire household if they did anything wrong.
Apparently he used to take Ghislaine to important events in place of her mother. He also named his yacht after her instead of his wife.
There’s a geat documnetary on Netflix called “Ghilaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich” that does a deep dive into the Maxwell family dynamics and how it turned her ino the peson she became.
I saw the father give an interview on YouTube a while back and it does not remotely surprise me that he’s a pervert. The eyes always give it away. Not surprised in the least. That man was a walking billboard screaming “abuser.”