There’s 42 years between Errol Musk and Jana Bezuidenhout
Errol Musk continues to be just as divisive as his son, and while Elon Musk is typically the talk of the town, his father isn’t without his controversy. Errol Musk has something of a strained relationship with the world’s richest man, telling critics of his son to simply ignore him.
Elon has also shared his sentiments toward his father, with the biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future claiming that Elon and his first wife, Justine, refused to let Errol see their children when they found out he’d fathered a child with his stepdaughter.
Errol Musk married 25-year-old Heide Bezuidenhout when he was aged 45, and then raised her daughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, from the age of four, Errol Musk reconnected with Jana in 2014 and sparked up a romantic relationship when he says he ‘helped her get over a breakup’.
Errol Musk raised Jana Bezuidenhout from the age of four (Instagram / @janaloves_life)
This led to her giving birth to a son in 2017, and in 2022, Errol revealed he’d become a father again at the age of 76.
Elon Musk has previously branded his father as ‘evil’ and ‘a terrible human being’, and following a new interview, the comment section has equally turned against Errol.
Speaking to Ukrainian-American interviewer DJ Vlad, Errol Musk explained his relationship with Jana and the four-word response to complaints that there are 42 years between them.
In the interview, Musk talks about how age is only a number and explains how Jana has had three stepfathers since him: “All I say is, ‘Show me the rules,’ I’d like to see the rules. Please show me the rules, I want to see the rules for love and war.
“If you show me then I’ll apologize, if you can’t show me the rules, then don’t talk to me.”
He continued that the wider family has ‘no problem’ with the situation, saying how his son regularly spends time with Heide Bezuidenhout and refers to her as his grandma. Musk says that they all spent Christmas together in Texas and maintains that any issues with anyone are long resolved. Still, the interviewer went on to press him on being compared to the situation where Woody Allen married his adoptive daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
Musk again said there are ‘no rules’ in love and war and controversially concluded: “If you can you can be happily married for 20 years or something, walk up to your wife and say, ‘Listen I want out,’ she can’t sue you. She can’t do anything.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Errol Musk recalled what he said when he found out Jana was pregnant with his child after their 2017 reunion: “Two months later, she contacted me to say she’s pregnant, so I said, ‘Well, oh can’t be me.’
“She said, ‘Well it is you,’ because she hasn’t been with anybody else.”
It’s true that there aren’t specific rules on age differences, but for many, Errol Musk’s ‘show me the rules’ defense has struck a nerve.
Responding to the interview, one person said: “😭😭😭😭’show me the rules’ this is a sick dude.”
Another added, “Rich people make their own rules 101,” while a third said, “Nah homie is a weirdo there is no justifying this.”
Someone else concluded: “Age difference, yeah it’s weird but whatever to each their own. But you were her stepfather, you saw her as a child, what a weirdo.”
