{"id":156609,"date":"2025-09-24T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156609\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:17:13","slug":"elon-musks-father-errol-accused-of-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156609\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Father, Errol, Accused of Child Sex Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElon Musk<\/a>\u2019s estranged father, Errol Musk<\/a>, is facing several allegations of child sex abuse involving five of his children and stepchildren, according to a new New York Times<\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe allegations against Errol, 79, were detailed in police reports, court records, personal letters, and interviews with family members and social workers. The alleged incidents occurred in South Africa, where Errol lives, and California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol \u2014 who has not been charged with, or convicted of, any crimes \u2014 denied the allegations against him. He told the Times that \u201cthe reports are false and nonsense to the extreme.\u201d He suggested the family members were \u201cputting the children up to say false things\u201d to get money from Elon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSeveral allegations in the story center around a former stepdaughter from Errol\u2019s marriage to Heidi-Mari Bezuidenhout, his third wife. The earliest alleged incident occurred in 1993 when the stepdaughter (from Bezuidenhout\u2019s first marriage) was four years old. Errol allegedly placed her on a row of trash cans at the family\u2019s home in Pretoria, South Africa, and touched her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe stepdaughter told her aunt about the alleged incident, and the aunt and other relatives reported it to the authorities. An investigation was opened, but the charges were withdrawn as part of a divorce settlement with Errol. (Bezuidenhout and Errol would marry and divorce twice.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol claimed that following this divorce, a judge granted him custody of his daughter with Bezuidenhout, and two judges rejected the stepdaughter\u2019s abuse allegations. But the Times could not find court records or judges capable of verifying Errol\u2019s claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAround 1999, Errol and Bezuidenhout remarried. In 2002, they traveled to California to visit Elon (Errol\u2019s oldest child from his first marriage, to Maye Haldeman), who bought them a $2 million house in Malibu. During their stay, according to family members and personal notes, the stepdaughter, by then 14, walked in on Errol in her room allegedly sniffing her dirty underwear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe police were called and a complaint was filed with child protective services in Los Angeles. (A spokesperson for the agency declined to comment to the Times, and the LAPD denied a records request.) A restraining order was issued against Erroll, according to three people.<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol denied the allegation, saying he had been cleaning up his stepdaughter\u2019s room after returning from a trip and finding the house \u201cin a terrible state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfterward, Elon reportedly moved his father from the Malibu house to a boat in Los Angeles, and then back to South Africa. But Errol claimed he left the United States on his own, though he was soon reliant on Elon and his brother, Kimbal, for financial support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Elon reportedly explored keeping Errol\u2019s children and stepchildren with Bezuidenhout in California, and even becoming their legal guardian, the family chose to return to South Africa in 2003. Bezuidenhout and Errol divorced again in 2005, though in 2009 they reconnected. Around that time, the stepdaughter, now 21, claimed that Errol kissed her and stuck his tongue into her mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe detailed the incident in an application for an interim protection order in South Africa, in which she wrote of Errol, \u201cI don\u2019t want him to be allowed to come close to me.\u201d The application was granted.<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol denied the allegation and claimed that his stepdaughter \u201cinappropriately kissed\u201d him while he was sleeping.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs an adult, the stepdaughter struggled with drug abuse and homelessness. She told the Times that she tied her drug use to the trauma she experienced growing up. While Elon provided some support to the stepdaughter from afar, when she was 29, the stepdaughter reached out to Errol for help as well. The two became intimate and had at least one child together. (The stepdaughter has said they had one child, while Errol has suggested in other interviews<\/a> that they may have had more. He told the Times it was \u201cnone of your business\u201d how many they\u2019d had.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2022, Errol allegedly groped their five-year-old son, according to family members. Bezuidenhout texted a relative the following year, \u201cHe said, \u2018dad gropes his behind.\u2019 He screamed, \u2018no dad.\u2019\u201d A police investigation was opened, but prosecutors ultimately dropped the case due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol said of the allegation, \u201cThere was no evidence because this is nonsense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other allegations of abuse against Errol were mentioned in the application for the interim protection order filed by the stepdaughter. She claimed that Errol also abused one of his stepsons, who later died in a car accident, as well as his two daughters with Bezuidenhout.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the stepdaughter did not provide details, Bezuidenhout did reference abuse allegations from one of her two daughters with Errol in a letter she sent Elon around 2007. Another relative mentioned the same allegations contained in the protective order in a note sent to Elon in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tErrol called the accusation that he abused his stepson \u201cnonsense,\u201d and the claims involving his daughters \u201cabsurd.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tElon declined to comment for the Times story, and a representative did not immediately return additional requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOver the years, Elon has been frank \u2014 if not exactly full of details \u2014 when discussing his problems with his estranged father. In a 2017 Rolling Stone story<\/a>, he called Errol \u201csuch a terrible human being,\u201d but did not provide specifics. \u201cMy dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil,\u201d he said. \u201cHe will plan evil \u2026 You have no idea about how bad. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Walter Isaacson\u2019s 2023 authorized biography, Elon said his father had been \u201cuncomfortably attentive\u201d to his stepsister. He added that he was angry with Errol for his \u201cinappropriate behavior.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s estranged father, Errol Musk, is facing several allegations of child sex abuse involving five of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,71613,18351,995,59,61304,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-156609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-child-sexual-abuse","10":"tag-controversy","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-sexual-abuse","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}