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Elon Musk’s father came to Russia for a forum where they will discuss “how to ensure an increase in the birth rate.” He has seven children from three women, including his former stepdaughter

On Saturday, Russian pro-government media reported that Errol Musk, the father of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, had arrived in Russia. He will take part in the forum of the Tsargrad Institute created by Orthodox businessman Konstantin Malofeev. One of the topics of the forum will be “ensuring the growth of the birth rate.” From Western media publications it follows that Errol Musk has at least seven children in three marriages, the last of which he entered into with his former stepdaughter.

Details. Izvestia was the first to report Errol Musk’s arrival in Moscow on Saturday morning.

  • The father of an American billionaire flew to the Future Forum 2050 . Its topics will be “ideology of sovereign Russia”, “foreign policy of Russia in the second quarter of the 21st century”, “wars of the future”, “race for Mars”, “special operation “Demography””, “new strategy for migration policy” (the title of the topic also contains the phrase “Russia as an ark of salvation”), “technological development: robotization instead of mass migration”, spatial development of Russia, “digital sovereignty” and “patriotic education”.

What is known about Elon Musk's father. Errol Musk was an engineer and managed several enterprises in South Africa, wrote The New York Times (NYT).

  • Elon, as well as his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca, are the children of Errol Musk from his marriage to model May Haldeman. Errol and May divorced in 1979, when Elon was eight years old. Subsequently, May Haldeman accused her ex-husband of insults and beatings. According to her mother’s recollections, Elon Musk, at the age of five, tried to stand up for her during one of the beatings.

  • From the age of 10 to 17, the future billionaire and his brother Kimbal Musk lived with their father. The children endured "occasional but regular verbal taunts and insults," the billionaire's biographer Walter Isaacson told CNN. According to Elon Tosca's sister, Errol Musk "sometimes spent hours lecturing his children, 'calling them worthless, pathetic, making insulting and angry comments, and not allowing them to leave.'"

  • After his divorce from May Haldeman, Errol Musk married Heide Bezeidenhout, who already had two children when they met, Rolling Stone wrote . According to the publication, two more children were born in the marriage.

  • In 2017, 30-year-old Jana Bezeidenhout, the daughter of his previous wife, gave birth to a child to then 72-year-old Errol Musk, The Sunday Times wrote. Elon Musk's father told the publication that he does not consider Yana his stepdaughter, because, according to him, she was raised away from her family for a long time. Jana Bezeidenhout's ex-stepfather told The Sunday Times she contacted him in 2017 and he did "everything in his power" to help her after she split from her boyfriend. “We were lonely, lost people. One thing led to another,” said the father of the American billionaire. In 2022, Errol Musk and Jana Bezeidenhout had a second child, NYT wrote.

How Elon Musk spoke about his father. Musk said that he did not have a good childhood, and his father “is good at making life miserable,” the NYT wrote. After 2017, he began to speak more harshly about his father. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he called his father a "terrible person" and said that moving in with his father at age 10 "wasn't a good idea."

  • Musk distanced himself from his father, although he continued to support him financially, CNN reported. In 2022, Errol Musk emailed his son on Father's Day asking him to send him money because he was "freezing without power." In correspondence with Elon Musk, his father made racist remarks about South African leaders and called the coronavirus a “lie.”

Who will become a participant in the Tsargrad forum? Among the speakers on the forum website are also listed the owner of Tsargrad, Konstantin Malofeev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Channel One presenter Ekaterina Andreeva, State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy, billionaire Andrei Melnichenko, General Director of the Internet Development Institute Alexei Goreslavsky, Archpriest Andrei Tkachev and other participants.