Musk family

6 days ago - The Musk family is a prominent family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is businessman and entrepeneur Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world. It also includes his parents Maye Musk, a model and author, and Errol Musk, a mine-owner, ...

May 11, 2024 - Musk probably repeated that in the 2014 interview and then when people start claiming that is dad was some kind of billionaire he corrected it saying that it's not an actual mine and just a shady business venture.

2 days ago - Errol Graham Musk was born on 25 May 1946 in Pretoria, in the Transvaal province of the Union of South Africa, to Walter Henry James Musk and Cora Amelia Musk (née Robinson). His father was an English-speaking white South African and his mother was English from Liverpool.

January 17, 2025 - He’s called it nothing but a rumor and expressed his irritation over what he calls “the fake emerald mine thing.” To drive his point home, he even tweeted he’d pay a million Dogecoin to anyone who can prove this mine exists!

April 22, 2023 - Look, Errol isn’t at all a capital Good Dude, and the Musk family is seemingly pretty strained. But somehow, “I met a random Italian on an airstrip and got into emerald mining from there” seems to check out for these folks, and some clarity on behalf of the world’s second-richest man — who doesn’t exactly have the soundest relationship to truth himself — would be welcome. And as for why Errol thinks his son won’t just admit that the mine was real? “Elon’s main concern is not to appear to be a ‘trust fund kid’ who got everything given to him on a plate,” Errol told the tabloid, though did add that the belief that his son was born with a silver — or, well, emerald — spoon in his mouth “isn’t true.”

January 9, 2023 - The gist of the claim was that Elon's father, Errol Musk, who reports say has been estranged from his son for some time, owned an emerald mine during apartheid in South Africa, and that it was seed money from his father's wealth from the mine ...

November 24, 2024 - The story of Elon Musk's alleged ... for years. Rumors have circulated about Musk's father Errol owning an "apartheid emerald mine" that supposedly funded Elon's early ventures and lavish lifestyle....

1 week ago - Despite both Elon and Errol previously stating that Errol was a part owner of a Zambian emerald mine, in 2023, Errol recounted that the deal he made was to receive "a portion of the emeralds produced at three small mines".

May 8, 2023 - He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence.” ... Also Read: 'He has been bankrupt for 25 years': Elon Musk opens up about ...

September 23, 2025 - Here's everything to know about Elon Musk's estranged father Errol Musk, from his former career as the reported owner of an emerald mine to his relationship with his Tesla CEO son.

September 12, 2023 - Walter Isaacson spoke to Musk's father Errol, who told him he exchanged a plane for emeralds. Errol never owned a mine, but imported emeralds into South Africa and had them cut in Johannesburg. It's long been speculated that Elon Musk's father,

January 20, 2024 - Elon Musk is a sad little man who got given a shit ton of money by his parents who owned a mine. His “brain implants” are not going to save you, they will probably cause epilepsy and other serious health problems.

March 21, 2025 - Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you”

October 10, 2023 - In a follow-up tweet, Elon said his father “didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt.” · Errol owned one of the largest homes in Pretoria and took his children on many overseas trips, according to the book, “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” written by Ashlee Vance.

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November 18, 2024 - Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, claimed he became involved in the global emerald trade but did not own a stake in a mine.

Answer (1 of 18): I asked Elon about this. The myth began with an interview his father Errol gave to Business Insider South Africa in 2018, in which he relayed a story about once trading an old plane for some cash and a share in a Zambian emerald deposit. But there were problems with the story:...

February 5, 2025 - On the other side of the story is Errol Musk, Elon’s father, who has been unwavering in his claim that the family did, in fact, deal in emeralds. According to him, the mine wasn’t a large-scale operation but rather an informal setup in Zambia.