After becoming one of the richest people on the planet, Elon Musk also became one of the most famous as just about everyone is familiar with his companies. The entrepreneur owns X (formerly known as Twitter), founded SpaceX and serves as Tesla’s Chief Executive Officer.
But not many people know too much about his family, apart from the fact that he believes having lots of children (he has 11 kids) is helping to save the world. Here’s more on the Musk family tree.
Elon Musk’s parents and siblings
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971, to his mother, Maye Musk, and father, Errol Musk. His parents split in 1979, and when he was 17, Elon moved to Canada as did his mom and two siblings, Kimbal and Tosca.
Elon Musk attends the Met Gala with his mother Maye Musk | Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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But not many people know too much about his family, apart from the fact that he believes having lots of children (he has 11 kids) is helping to save the world. Here’s more on the Musk family tree.
Elon Musk’s parents and siblings
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971, to his mother, Maye Musk, and father, Errol Musk. His parents split in 1979, and when he was 17, Elon moved to Canada as did his mom and two siblings, Kimbal and Tosca.
Elon Musk attends the Met Gala with his mother Maye Musk | Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
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- 4/26/2024
- by Michelle Kapusta
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
A24 has a biopic of Elon Musk in development, with The Whale helmer Darren Aronofsky on board to direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
A24 optioned Walter Issacson’s new biography of Musk, the controversial CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which will be turned into a film adaptation. Aronofsky is set to direct and produce the film with his production company Protozoa Pictures.
Aronofsky previously partnered with A24 on The Whale, for which star Brendan Fraser earned an Academy Award. The book option deal is understood to have been highly competitive with top studios and filmmakers in the running.
Published by Simon & Schuster, Issacson’s book explores the 52-year-old’s upbringing in South Africa by a “charismatic fantasist” engineer father, Errol Musk, and dietician mother, Maye Musk, who now moonlights as a model.
Isaacson shadowed Musk for two years and attended his meetings, toured his companies’ factories and spent...
A24 optioned Walter Issacson’s new biography of Musk, the controversial CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which will be turned into a film adaptation. Aronofsky is set to direct and produce the film with his production company Protozoa Pictures.
Aronofsky previously partnered with A24 on The Whale, for which star Brendan Fraser earned an Academy Award. The book option deal is understood to have been highly competitive with top studios and filmmakers in the running.
Published by Simon & Schuster, Issacson’s book explores the 52-year-old’s upbringing in South Africa by a “charismatic fantasist” engineer father, Errol Musk, and dietician mother, Maye Musk, who now moonlights as a model.
Isaacson shadowed Musk for two years and attended his meetings, toured his companies’ factories and spent...
- 11/10/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Larry David confronted Elon Musk over his support for the Republican Party at Endeavor chief Ari Emanuel’s wedding last year, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the tech mogul, Elon Musk.
“Do you just want to murder kids in schools?” the comedian and Seinfeld co-creator reportedly asked Musk at the Hollywood super-agent’s nuptials to fashion designer Sarah Staudinger in France. “No, no … I’m anti-kid murder,” Musk, the Tesla Motors/X/SpaceX billionaire, is said to have replied.
“Then how could you vote Republican?” David followed up.
David, an Emanuel client who officiated the nuptials between the talent agent and Staudinger, Isaacson wrote, confirmed the confrontation to Isaacson, saying, “His tweets about voting Republican because Democrats were the party of division and hate were sticking in my craw. Even if Uvalde never happened, I probably would have brought it up because I was angry and offended.
“Do you just want to murder kids in schools?” the comedian and Seinfeld co-creator reportedly asked Musk at the Hollywood super-agent’s nuptials to fashion designer Sarah Staudinger in France. “No, no … I’m anti-kid murder,” Musk, the Tesla Motors/X/SpaceX billionaire, is said to have replied.
“Then how could you vote Republican?” David followed up.
David, an Emanuel client who officiated the nuptials between the talent agent and Staudinger, Isaacson wrote, confirmed the confrontation to Isaacson, saying, “His tweets about voting Republican because Democrats were the party of division and hate were sticking in my craw. Even if Uvalde never happened, I probably would have brought it up because I was angry and offended.
- 9/19/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk knows how to make headlines. A new biography on the controversial CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX examines what the was released Tuesday by author Walter Isaacson, and it’s now No. 3 on Amazon’s nonfiction charts in its first week.
Published by Simon & Schuster, the 688-page book explores the 52-year-old’s upbringing in South Africa by “charismatic fantasist” engineer father, Errol Musk, and dietician mother, Maye Musk, who now moonlights as a model. (They divorced in 1979.) It’s 30 percent off for its debut week, but those who prefer audiobooks can listen to Isaacson’s Elon Musk for free with a new subscription to Audible.
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As a child, the future billionaire “was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He...
Published by Simon & Schuster, the 688-page book explores the 52-year-old’s upbringing in South Africa by “charismatic fantasist” engineer father, Errol Musk, and dietician mother, Maye Musk, who now moonlights as a model. (They divorced in 1979.) It’s 30 percent off for its debut week, but those who prefer audiobooks can listen to Isaacson’s Elon Musk for free with a new subscription to Audible.
Buy: Elon Musk $24.48
As a child, the future billionaire “was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He...
- 9/16/2023
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Walter Isaacson was granted extraordinary access to Elon Musk while writing his biography of the tech founder — he was at Musk’s side “for two or three years.” As a result, Isaacson got to know Musk well. In an interview with CBS News, Isaacson revealed that you can “watch him go from being very giddy and funny, to being deeply in engineering mode. And then, suddenly the dark cloud happens. It’s almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
The root of Musk’s multi-sided personality appears to lie in his childhood. His father, Errol, was admittedly hard on Musk, and Isaacson said, “It has left deep scars on him, the way his father treated him. When he was bullied on the schoolyard, when his face was pounded into the concrete steps, and his father took the side of the person who beat him up instead of Elon. Errol Musk said,...
The root of Musk’s multi-sided personality appears to lie in his childhood. His father, Errol, was admittedly hard on Musk, and Isaacson said, “It has left deep scars on him, the way his father treated him. When he was bullied on the schoolyard, when his face was pounded into the concrete steps, and his father took the side of the person who beat him up instead of Elon. Errol Musk said,...
- 9/10/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
After a report that highlighted Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk’s influence in governmental decisions, his father, Errol Musk, says he fears that his son could be at risk of assassination.
The elder Errol criticized a recent New Yorker article that explored Musk’s influence on government decisions, specifically on the current Russia-Ukraine war. The Pentagon considered Musk an “unelected official” and had concerns about Musk’s unclear stance toward Putin due to Musk’s ever-changing public statements on the war in Ukraine.
Musk’s Starlink satellites have been crucial in the war, as Ukrainian troops have used them for communications. Troops in Ukraine dealt with a Starlink outage in October 2022, mainly because Musk was seeking federal funding after providing Starlink for free.
According to the New Yorker, the outage caused chaos between the Ukrainian army and U.S. defense officials, who were worried about Musk severing Starlink...
The elder Errol criticized a recent New Yorker article that explored Musk’s influence on government decisions, specifically on the current Russia-Ukraine war. The Pentagon considered Musk an “unelected official” and had concerns about Musk’s unclear stance toward Putin due to Musk’s ever-changing public statements on the war in Ukraine.
Musk’s Starlink satellites have been crucial in the war, as Ukrainian troops have used them for communications. Troops in Ukraine dealt with a Starlink outage in October 2022, mainly because Musk was seeking federal funding after providing Starlink for free.
According to the New Yorker, the outage caused chaos between the Ukrainian army and U.S. defense officials, who were worried about Musk severing Starlink...
- 9/6/2023
- by Zach Ament
- Uinterview
Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, slammed the idea for a cage match that Elon and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have been debating.
On Sunday, Zuckerberg announced on Threads that the fight was not going to happen. “Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” he stated. “If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”
He added that he was prepared to fight him as he “offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity.”
Errol seems to agree with Zuckerberg, telling The Sun that for Elon, “it’s to get publicity for X. Elon’s not faking it, just drawing attention to X.
On Sunday, Zuckerberg announced on Threads that the fight was not going to happen. “Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” he stated. “If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”
He added that he was prepared to fight him as he “offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity.”
Errol seems to agree with Zuckerberg, telling The Sun that for Elon, “it’s to get publicity for X. Elon’s not faking it, just drawing attention to X.
- 8/16/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Spoilers for "Succession" follow.
"Succession" is about power structures. The show's drama is about the dynamics of both the Roy family and the Waystar Royco leadership team — Logan (Brian Cox) has traditionally remained on top of both, and those underneath him are always squabbling for bigger pieces of the leftover pie. On a macro level, the show is a depiction of the neo-Gilded Age that is the 21st century. "Succession" focuses on the global elite, but take a drink every time the camera lingers on anonymous service workers toiling in the background.
Since the series parallels real life, it sometimes uses real people as inspiration. The Roys are the Murdochs, for instance, owners of NewsCorp and the most powerful family in media since the Hearsts. Then there's Lukas Matsson (Alexanders Skarsgård), the owner of GoJo who's set to acquire Waystar. Some have suggested he's based on Daniel Ek, the CEO...
"Succession" is about power structures. The show's drama is about the dynamics of both the Roy family and the Waystar Royco leadership team — Logan (Brian Cox) has traditionally remained on top of both, and those underneath him are always squabbling for bigger pieces of the leftover pie. On a macro level, the show is a depiction of the neo-Gilded Age that is the 21st century. "Succession" focuses on the global elite, but take a drink every time the camera lingers on anonymous service workers toiling in the background.
Since the series parallels real life, it sometimes uses real people as inspiration. The Roys are the Murdochs, for instance, owners of NewsCorp and the most powerful family in media since the Hearsts. Then there's Lukas Matsson (Alexanders Skarsgård), the owner of GoJo who's set to acquire Waystar. Some have suggested he's based on Daniel Ek, the CEO...
- 5/8/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
New Delhi, May 7 (Ians) Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday credited his father for teaching fundamentals of “physics, engineering and construction”.
The world’s second richest man said that the teaching of his father Errol Musk, a South African politician, “is more valuable than money”.
Musk, who owns several companies like Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX said that he has not “inherited anything ever from anyone”, quashing the long-running rumour which claims his father owns an emerald mine in South Africa and that he has given him financial assistance.
Errol Musk had previously claimed in an interview that he used emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia to finance his son’s escape from South Africa to America.
Musk said nobody has provided him with “a large financial gift” and that his father did not support him “financially after high school in any meaningful way”.
Instead, Musk and his brother...
The world’s second richest man said that the teaching of his father Errol Musk, a South African politician, “is more valuable than money”.
Musk, who owns several companies like Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX said that he has not “inherited anything ever from anyone”, quashing the long-running rumour which claims his father owns an emerald mine in South Africa and that he has given him financial assistance.
Errol Musk had previously claimed in an interview that he used emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia to finance his son’s escape from South Africa to America.
Musk said nobody has provided him with “a large financial gift” and that his father did not support him “financially after high school in any meaningful way”.
Instead, Musk and his brother...
- 5/7/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Elon Musk has had a busy few days. Over the weekend, he ordered the “w” in the the sign on Twitter‘s San Francisco headquarters painted over, so that it read “Titter.” Then, on Monday, he changed his Twitter display name to “Harry Bōlz” before tweeting, “Impersonating others is wrong!” He later added: “I’m just hoping a media org that takes itself way too seriously writes a story about Harry Bōlz… ” Then, on Tuesday, he announced that the site’s unpaid “legacy” verification checks, formerly scheduled for removal on April Fool’s Day,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
New Delhi, Sep 14 (Ians) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became “Naughtius Maximus” on Twitter, along with changing his profile picture as he goes through a bitter battle over the 44 billion bid to buy the micro-blogging platform.
Musk’s updated Twitter bio now reads, “Centurion in Jerusalem Garrison” and his display image is one from his childhood.
Naughtius Maximus is described as someone who displays violent or anti-social behaviour, especially as a kid.
It is an English synonym of the word naughty to the maximum which means someone who, specifically as a child, has a bad behaviour to the maximum.
Born in 1971 in South Africa, Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
His mother is Maye Musk, a model and dietitian born in Canada and raised in South Africa.
His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer and pilot. Elon Musk has a younger brother Kimbal and a younger sister Tosca.
Musk’s updated Twitter bio now reads, “Centurion in Jerusalem Garrison” and his display image is one from his childhood.
Naughtius Maximus is described as someone who displays violent or anti-social behaviour, especially as a kid.
It is an English synonym of the word naughty to the maximum which means someone who, specifically as a child, has a bad behaviour to the maximum.
Born in 1971 in South Africa, Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
His mother is Maye Musk, a model and dietitian born in Canada and raised in South Africa.
His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer and pilot. Elon Musk has a younger brother Kimbal and a younger sister Tosca.
- 9/14/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
London, Aug 8 (Ians) Errol Musk, 76, who is father of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has said that he is not a ‘Lothario’ (serial womanizer) but in his head, he has “slept with many women”. After revealing last month that he had a second child with his own stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, Errol now said that […]...
- 8/8/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Errol Musk, the South-African billionaire who raised the current World’s Richest Man Elon Musk, said hilariously that he wasn’t proud of his son because “we are a family that have been doing a lot of things for a long time.” Errol was speaking on the Australian radio show The Kyle and Jackie O Show, and […]
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- 8/2/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
San Francisco, Aug 2 (Ians) Errol Musk, father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, said that he is not proud of his son, saying that Elon is unhappy with his own career progress. During an interview with the Australian radio The Kyle and Jackie O Show, 76-year-old was asked if he was proud of Elon’s accomplishments, […]...
- 8/2/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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