Inter-galactic family feud: Elon Musk has called his father ‘evil’... so we tracked him down to South Africa where says his son needs to 'grow up' after 'tantrums' over his child with new model wife, 30
He is the nerdish genius who likes to think big and spend big –a visionary billionaire who will not rest until he has changed the world.
Elon Musk’s Tesla electric cars are already the leaders in the field. He is working on a vertical take-off electric supersonic aircraft and a ‘hyperloop’ transport system taking just 45 minutes to cross the American continent.
And he intends to revolutionise space travel with a master plan to create habitable colonies on distant planets.
Musk has started no fewer than four billion-dollar companies, so there is no doubting his talent or drive – and he’s happy to enjoy the fruits of his success with five Bel Air mansions, seven private jets and relationships with famously beautiful women, including actresses Talulah Riley and Amber Heard.
Yet there is one thing that even a £20 billion fortune cannot buy, and that is family harmony – in particular a warm relationship with his father Errol. Rarely shy of generating headlines, 46-year-old Musk has left the world in no doubt of where he stands, choosing to portray Errol in quite sensational terms.
Errol Musk last week at his home in South Africa. ‘Elon needs to grow up,’ he says now. ‘He needs to get over himself. I’m not going to hit back. I’m going to wait until he comes to his senses'
Elon Musk is pictured with his mother Maye Musk at the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
‘He was such a terrible human being, you have no idea,’ he told an interviewer for the American magazine Rolling Stone with tears running down his face.
‘My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it.’
It is hardly surprising, then, that the two men haven’t spoken for the past 18 months – not even ten months ago when 72-year-old Errol surprised his grown-up children by fathering a boy with his much younger new wife.
Throughout this turbulence, and despite his son’s international fame, Errol has maintained a dignified silence. Until now. For when he invited The Mail on Sunday into his elegant home overlooking a wide sweep of the rocky coast in South Africa’s Western Cape, he had some choice words about their incendiary feud – and made a shocking revelation of his own: he was once charged with manslaughter for shooting dead three men who broke into his home.
He was subsequently acquitted, after pleading self-defence. But it is an episode he speculates may be the reason for Elon’s cruel words.
‘Elon needs to grow up,’ he says now. ‘He needs to get over himself. I’m not going to hit back. I’m going to wait until he comes to his senses. He’s having a tantrum, like a spoilt child. He can’t have what he wants and now I am apparently an evil monster.’
A craggily good-looking man with a 1,000-watt smile and an easy humour, Errol still flies his own plane up the spectacular West Coast and has a fishing boat parked in the garage next to his silver Bentley Continental.
Errol Musk is pictured standing in front of a Tesla Model S in Colorado in 2014
A collection of family portraits is spread out on the handsome mahogany dining table: Elon with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca, and their stepsisters Alexandra and Rose.
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