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---. With his new riches, Errol also bought half of an emerald mine. Elon also denied that Errol invested in the company. There is a more nuanced conversation to be had about how Elon Musk specifically and South Africas white population in general benefitted from apartheid. For example, on Dec. 28, 2019, hetweetedthat his father "didn't own an emerald mine" and that he (Elon) had worked his way through college, ending up with around $100,000 in student debt. I'm going to wait until he comes to his senses. The tweet was shared as a screenshot on Imgur.com, which showed the image had been viewed more than 300,000 times. In an interview with The Sun, Errol recalled the attack, claiming that he was confronted by a group of seven men inside his home and shot back at the intruders after they opened fire. We contacted Elon publicly on Twitter. In Errol's case, we sent a message to his Facebook profile. We've received your submission. He was such a terrible human being, Musk told the magazine. The patriarch confirmed the shootings to the publication in 2017, saying manslaughter charges were later dropped because he acted in self-defense. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Errol Musk was born in Pretoria South Africa to Walter Henry James and Cora Amelia Robinson. This article forms part of the archives of Business Insider South Africa, which was published as a partnership between News24 and Insider Inc between 2018 and 2023. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It was a lucrative decision. A recurring theme on social media is the claim that Musks father owned an emerald mine and paid for his sons privileged upbringing and education. Musk has denied that story. Errol talked about Elons fascination with computers when they first came out in the mid-80s, during an interview on radio station 702 in Johannesburg, as reported by Forbes. However, $800 was probably pocket change for the family, judging by what Musk's father told the site. This story will be updated if any further details come to light. Where is this bs coming from? People.Com, 7 Nov. 2022, https://people.com/human-interest/who-is-errol-musk-elon-musk-father/. We had so much money at times we couldnt even close our safe, he explained, adding that they would need one person to hold the money in place and another to close the safe door. Though Errol has made headlines in recent years after the births of his two youngest children, he seemingly avoids the spotlight. r/EnoughMuskSpam via Reddit.com, 18 Dec. 2021, https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/rj689s/elon_musk_and_the_emerald_mine/. Arnold paraphrased his answers, publishing that he said "it was a handshake deal with a Panamanian man that resulted in something like 110 emeralds up front and then a semi-regular trickle of rough stones over a few years following," and that "there was never formal ownership.". ", "You have no idea about how bad. The emerald mine story, reported in 2018 in Business Insider, tells how, in the mid-1980s, Errol acquired a half-share in a Zambian emerald mine, which would help to fund his familys lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers.. The New York Times, 5 May 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html. As well as providing links, people started commenting Musk's own words back at him under his tweet. So we went to this guy's prefab and he opened his safe and there was just stacks of money and he paid me out, 80,000, it was a huge amount of money, he said. An avid pilot and sailor, as well as an electrical and mechanical engineer, he made his money consulting and developing properties and retired early. Elon Musk isn't innovative. The funny thing is I've not actually been that nervous. Musk's critics often paraphrase the story on social media, who accuse him not only of benefitting from wealth rather than genius but of indirectly profiting from Apartheid. So I thought, I can be company. Yeah, I was sad for my father. To me, he sure is trying to make the world better right now, and thats the best thing he could do with his fathers money. "Elon Musk Tells Me His Secret Of Success (Hint: It Ain't About The Money)." Clearly, Elon Musk doesn't like being mocked. Once again, he said that he paid his own way through college, ending with around $100,000 in student debt, and added thathe started his first company with no funding and one computer he built himself. Im not sure if replying to a satire site and amplifying their articles reach is necessarily the best idea, but Musk felt that this was a hill worth dying on. He will plan evil, Elon tearfully told Rolling Stone in 2017. Esquire, 5 June 2015, https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a35508/elon-musk-college-years-canada-u-penn/. Not all the tweets were supportive of Elon. 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FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ERROL MUSK 1. The 51-year-old has refuted claims that he grew up rich amid statements that his father Errol owned an emerald mine in . Instead, they focus on describing how hard he worked in his teenage years and early adulthood, how much debt he accrued by attending college and his disdain for his father. "One thing he claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company. In 2017, Errol told Rolling Stone that while he has never intentionally hurt or threatened anyone, he once shot and killed a group of burglars at his home in Johannesburg, though he says he was cleared of all charges because he acted in self-defense. I arrived by myself in Canada in 89 with ~CA$2500 Paid my own way through college, ending with ~$100k student debt Started 1st company with no funding & just one computer I built Theres no evidence whatsoever of an emerald mine, 2/2My father & his extended family have been dependent on financial support from my brother & me for over 20 years. The entire episode started when the satirical publication The Onion published a piece on the wealthiest person in each American state. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years.. In 2018, Errol Musk interviewed Business Insider South Africa, where he told a story about bartering his way into partial ownership of an emerald mine in Zambia. Move over, Elon theres another Musk hitting the headlines. "So we decided to head back to Lake Tanganyika from where we were, I think we were in Djibouti.". EM: Company death not succeeding with the company causes me a lot more stress than physical danger. You could tell by the way that he told the story. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Elon Musks bid to implant chips into human brains shot down by feds, How the feds spend $74M a year to try to censor Americans, US government-funded research tagged Americans for Twitter ban: report, Tesla stock slumps as Master Plan 3 event falls flat with investors, after confirming he fathered a second secret love child, once rumored to be the co-owner of a Zambian emerald mine, an outspoken advocate for abolishing apartheid, Ashlee Vances 2017 biography of the Tesla founder, that he welcomed twochildren with an executive, second child with his ex-girlfriend, Grimes. ", Five days later on Feb. 28, Business Insider SA published a second article with the headline, "Elon Musk's family owns an emerald mine in Zambia here's the fascinating story of how they came to own it.". The buyer also offered Errol the option to buy half of an emerald mine with that cash. Note: Some of the tweets that promoted the rumor said that Elon did not found Tesla, which was true. Regardless of your opinion of him, he is aself-made billionaire." On an undisclosed date, Errol reportedly shot and killed three of up to a half-dozen armed intruders who broke into his Johannesburg home, according to Rolling Stone. We sought evidence in the case that they still had any documentation from past decades about the mine, the around $100,000 in student debt that Elon has repeatedly said he had accumulated during college, or anything else related to Elon's early finances that they have mentioned in past interviews. He also added, "'Self-made billionaires' are a myth." He added that Elon left the country as "a clear indication of his willingness to not support the political suppression in the country. Errol told BI that he was flying from his home in South Africa to the U.K. to sell the plane he was on, with a young Elon in tow. Arnold, Jeremy. However, any reconciliation was apparently short-lived. Meanwhile, Musk's defenders often say that the mogul has denied this story, though that is not precisely true either. Errol Musk says teenage Elon Musk once casually walked around with emeralds in his pocket. He has also dismissed rumors that his father co-owned a Zambian emerald mine, writing on Twitter in 2019: He didnt own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt. ". Errol Musk was born in 1946 in Pretoria to Walter Henry James Musk and Cora Amelia Robinson. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.". "Elon Musk Is the Hero America Deserves." The article's headline was changed in late July or early August 2020, which appeared to be after Errol made his Facebook poston July 27, which called the dated article's claims into question. In 2019, Elon Musk confronted the Twitter talking point about his father's supposed emerald mine head-on, writing, "He didn't own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt. It was not a good idea.. Although Tesla stands out as a groundbreaking company at the forefront of the electric car revolution, its standard operating procedure at the Tesla factory is pre-civil-rights-era race discrimination, Vaughn wrote in his complaint, according to a Daily Beast report. Sager, Jessica. The rumor of the "apartheid emerald mine" received a spike in shares around the time that Elon Musk completed his takeover of Twitter in late 2022. He was married to Maye Musk and also to Heide Musk, with whom he has two children, Alexandra and Rose. "What's very difficult for others is easy for me. https://web.archive.org/. And he had a disastrous relationship with his father. Worked on my Moms cousins farm in Saskatchewan & a lumber mill in Vancouver. In the mid 1980s, Elon Musks father Errol and a copilot were on their way to England aboard a plane they hoped to sell when they landed there. Errol told Business Insider South Africa that he co-owned an emerald mine in Zambia. In the meantime, Musk continues to make waves on multiple technological fronts, all while raising concerns about workers' rights and income inequality. Curiously, Errol has said nothing more about the controversial emerald mine story in the years since, even in recent interviews like his discussion with Forbes last year. His father, Errol Musk, had a casual attitude towards the family's considerable wealth, including the stones that came from the Zambian emerald mine in which Errol owned a half share. At some point after the shooting, the relationship between dad Errol and son Elon soured. The 76-year-old is most notable for being Elons estranged father, with the pair famously falling out several years ago. After the divorce, Elon lived mostly with his father until he left South Africa at age 17 partly to avoid conscription in the South African army. You have no idea. 2021, https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/i-talked-to-elon-musk-about-journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. " he told the outlet. Father and son have a complicated history. [6][7] In a 2018 interview with Business Insider, Musk boasted that as a result of the emerald mine "we had so much money we couldn't even close our safe. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Britannica.com, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zip2. On Feb. 23, 2018, Business Insider SA published a story with the headline, "'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth." [11][5] Maye has stated that Errol beat her. [14], Musk was married to Heide Bezuidenhout for eighteen years and helped her raise her young daughter Jana Bezuidenhout, a child from a previous relationship. Forbes, 1 Oct. 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2016/10/01/can-elon-musk-really-get-us-to-mars-within-10-years/. Instead Errol returned to South Africa with a half-share in a Zambian emerald mine, which would help to fund his family's lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers. This is a pretty awful lie. The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2009, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/plugged-in. Maye and Errol divorced in 1980 when Elon was about 9 years old. I tried threats, rewards, intellectual arguments, emotional arguments, everything to try to change my father for the better, and he no way, it just got worse. Listen to GHOGH with Jamarlin Martin | Episode 74: Jamarlin Martin Jamarlin returns for a new season of the GHOGH podcast to discuss Bitcoin, bubbles, and Biden. More answers and details are available in Arnold's article. In a 2019 . To me, he sure is trying to make the world better right now, and that's the best thing he could do with his father's money. In April 2014, Dana Hull and Patrick May penned an article for San Jose's The Mercury News with the headline, "The otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk." ---. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. The story also included the same information from Elon's tweets where he said again that he had "ended up with $100,000 of student debt. [15][16] At the time of their marriage, Jana Bezuidenhout was only four years old and lived together with them. ", She added, "He was very rich, but he made sure I had nothing. He attended Queens University in Canada. Note: Reporting from Esquire.com said that Elon moved from South Africa to Canada in 1988. The 76-year-old hasnt ruled out having more children, saying: The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.. When the same pattern of racist behavior happens at all $tsla locations, its the company thats racist, and the fish rots from @elonmusk s head.https://t.co/aKAP7vrT6G https://t.co/EMN9xQH06V. In the biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, author Ashlee Vance wrote that Errol invested $28,000 in Elon and Kimbal's then-fledgling company, Zip2. We reached out to Reich to ask if he could provide evidence of his assertion, but did not receive a response before this story was published. He is the father of Elon Musk, the CEO of 'SpaceX,' 'Tesla, Inc.,' and 'Neuralink' and one of the co-founders of 'PayPal.' Errol is mostly known for his scandalous life and his estranged relationship with his children. Errol named his price, and a deal was done. It is often claimed that Musk's father, Errol Musk, once owned shares in a Zambian emerald mine, and that Musk subsequently enjoyed an . Born in 1971, Musk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. Bridges to Italy tweeted, Yeah, hes not that bright, just like the guy who started this thread. The Tesla CEO once called his South African dad 'evil' and denied rumours of family wealth fuelled by an emerald mine - but are they ready to reconcile? Once the Musk emerald story started circulating, and information about Musk's father Errol's past business dealings got out, a cavalcade of internet poo-pooers flocked to Twitter to lambast Musk . Former Tesla employees have reported racist behavior and attempted to sue over it. "I said, 'Oh, all right.' Musk's father, Errol, an engineer, married Maye when she was 22, and Musk was born shortly . In a rare interview with Forbes, Errol revealed that his parents were the first to ever fly from South Africa to Australia in a single-engine airplane. Rumor is Errol Musk owned an emerald mine. Bill Gates' mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM. The interview is no longer available on the Forbes website. To summarize Arnold's story would be difficult, as it contained a considerable amount of data and analysis. We reached out to Clash and Forbes PR to ask why the interview was no longer available. mark_able_jones_. I left South Africa by myself when I was 17 with just a backpack & suitcase of books. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed. The headline of the story read, "Elon Musk Tells Me His Secret Of Success (Hint: It Ain't About The Money).". He was only physically violent when I was very young., He also said, You have no idea about how bad. First, we have republished past statements from both Errol and Elon. And thats when Musk's father was offered half an emerald mine in return for half of his earnings. [4], Musk met Maye Haldeman when he was 11 years old and they were childhood friends before marrying in 1970. Elon Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa. "We were going to fly into Jeddah and there was a religious holiday, and they said if we come in now we have to pay $2,000, but if we wait 10 days we can come in at no charge," he recalled to Business Insider. Heres his story. Some of his most vocal detractors have promoted the idea that Musk, like Trump, began his career backed by the deep pockets of dear old dad. According to Ashlee Vances 2017 biography of the Tesla founder, The Musk family owned one of the biggest houses in Pretoria thanks to the success of Errols engineering business, which included large projects such as office buildings, retail complexes, residential subdivisions, and an air force base.. Elon would later get his own pilot's license but no longer has time to fly. We were very wealthy. AskMen, 2 Jan. 2015, https://www.askmen.com/entertainment/right-stuff/elon-musk-interview.html. For a while, I thought things were so obvious that everyone must know this., However, Elon has disputed claims that he grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was such a terrible human being. It was that lifestyle, Errol says, that turned Elon into the kind of merchant adventurer who would later break the rules of the motoring business with Tesla, then go on to change spaceflight with SpaceX. Elon, by his father's recollection then probably 16 years old, and his brother Kimbal, decided to sell emeralds to Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York . Are you prioritizing your cable entertainment bill over protecting and investing in your family? "They just walked into Tiffany's and said, 'Do you want to buy some emeralds?' Business Insider South Africa, 23 Feb. 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2. Our offices are for administrative purposes only, no visitors will be accepted without an appointment. Soon after Elon left for Canada, his mother, Maye, moved there too, along with Elons brother, Kimbal, and sister, Tosca. I've tried everything. Errol Musk bought 50% of the emerald mine in 1969 for about 40,000, which is equal to about 160 000 today. ERROL IS A RETIRED SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEER. Meet. Musk may not be a great guy, but I fail to see any apartheid link to his fathers emerald mine., @grard97 tweeted, Remind: Elon Musk owns an electric and autonomous car companyA private space landing rockets companyAn AI companyA Neuroscience companyA Solar Panel and energy storage companyThe WHOLE bank on the internet was started by him (yes, your credit card as well), @C49015142 tweeted, I thought I read in Malcolm Gladwells book David and Goliath that his company received $500 million from the US government, so we are all subsidizing him.
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