Elon Musk’s controversial father Errol has cruelly claimed the Tesla founder’s first son, Nevada, spent ‘too much time’ in the care of nannies before he died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Errol made the claims on South African podcast Wide Awake, where he also said Elon ‘hasn’t been a good dad.’ ‘The first child was too much with nannies and died in the care of a nanny,’ Errol said of Nevada, who died at just ten weeks old in 2002.
Nevada was Musk’s first child with his wife Justine. Errol said: ‘If Elon hears this he’s gonna shoot me or something, but anyway, that’s what I think.’ ‘They were too rich, [had] too many nannies… then he had five children with the same woman – five sons all brought up, each one had its own nanny. You following me? ‘When they got divorced, the nannies were six on this side and six on that side. So it was a really weird situation.’ Errol also alleged that Musk ‘never spent time with his kids.’
Speaking on the Wide Awake podcast this week, Errol Musk claimed his son Elon ‘hasn’t been a good dad’
Musk and Justine were married from 2000 to 2008. After Nevada’s death, the couple went on to have twin sons, Xavier and Griffin. Xavier has since transitioned to become Vivian and now identifies as female.
In 2006, they welcomed triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian. He has since had three children – X Æ A-12, Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno Mechanicus – with former partner Grimes, and another three children – Strider, Azure and a third baby whose name is not known- with Shivon Zillis.
Both he and Justine have spoken of the acute grief they felt when Nevada died. ‘My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,’ he said in a tweet aimed at Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy theorists.
Justine recalled the tragedy in an essay for Marie Claire. ‘By the time eBay bought PayPal in 2002, we had moved to Los Angeles and had our first child, a boy named Nevada Alexander. The sale of PayPal vaulted Elon’s net worth to well over $100 million.
‘The same week, Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing. He was 10 weeks old, the age when male infants are most susceptible to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
Elon Musk and his first wife Canadian Justine Wilson had their first son, Nevada, in 2002
‘By the time the paramedics resuscitated him, he had been deprived of oxygen for so long that he was brain-dead. ‘He spent three days on life support in a hospital in Orange County before we made the decision to take him off it. ‘I held him in my arms when he died.’
There appears to be no love lost between the billionaire and his father. In a 2017 interview, Elon described his father as a ‘terrible human being’. ‘He was such a terrible human being. You have no idea… my dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. ‘My dad was not physically violent with me. He was only physically violent when I was very young.’
Errol infamously married his own stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, in the 1990s. They had two children together. Meanwhile Elon has spoken jokingly of his desire to repopulate the world by fathering as many children as he can. Some of the kids have made their Washington DC debuts; toddlers Strider and Azure joined older brother X and their famous father for a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister yesterday. X went viral after an adorable appearance in the Oval Office earlier this week. His mother, Grimes, was displeased that he’d been trotted out in front of the world’s press.
