Elon Musk’s famous family includes a model, several millionaire entrepreneurs, and multiple sets of twins. Here are all the members of the Musk family tree.
Elon Musk and his mother, Maye Musk. STUDENTS / Danny Moloshok
Elon Musk has a large family that includes many millions of businessmen.
Musk himself is married twice and has six sons, including a child with his partner, Grimes.
Musk has two siblings who founded companies and exemplary mother CoverGirl.
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Elon Musk has had a wild life, but he is not the only one in his family who started businesses, made millions, or gained fame.
Musk's family is made up of businessmen and insurgents, from his sister filmmaker Tosca to his ex-actress, Talulah Riley. Tesla and SpaceX chief executive recently added a new family member: a baby boy born last May with his girlfriend, singer Grimes.
But even before his new baby, Musk - who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, before moving to Canada, and finally, California - still had a large family with two wives, a group of twins. three times.
Here's a look at the Musk family tree.
- Errol Musk, the father of Elon Musk, is a South African engineer.
Errol Musk. Denver Post photo by Cyrus McCrimmon
Errol Musk, according to Elon, has a high IQ and is reportedly the youngest person to graduate in engineering in South Africa, according to Rolling Stone's 2017 profile.
When Elon was a teenager, she moved in with her father after his parents divorced. At the time, Errol Musk was involved in construction and emerald mining, according to Rolling Stone.
Errol Musk made headlines in 2018 when it was revealed that he had a child with his then 30-year-old stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, whom he had known since he was 4 years old.
Today, Musk and Errol are separated. A Tesla official told Rolling Stone that his father was "a very bad man." "You have no idea how bad it is," Musk said. "Almost every crime you can think of, you have committed."
Maye Musk, Elon Musk's mother, is a dietitian and model.
Maye Musk. Danny Moloshok / Reuters
Maye Musk has been modeling for more than 50 years, since she was 15 years old. She has appeared in the Special K K boxes and on the cover of Time magazine, and has attended sports at New York Fashion Week, according to The New York Times.
In 2017, Musk became a cover for CoverGirl at the age of 69.
Maye Musk had been married to Errol Musk until 1979, and described the relationship as abusive. After the divorce, Maye Musk moved to Canada with her three children, where she set up a business as a dietitian.
Kimbal Musk is Elon Musk’s younger brother. He’s a restaurateur and philanthropist.
Kimbal Musk. Fred Prouser / Reuters
Kimbal Musk is currently the founder of three food companies: Kitchen Restaurant Group, a non-profit company called Big Green, and Square Roots, an urban farming company.
Musk moved from South Africa to Canada with Elon Musk as a teenager, eventually establishing Zip2 and Elon and selling it for $ 307 million in 1999. He was an investor in PayPal, and currently sits on the board of Tesla and SpaceX.
Kimbal Musk continued to enroll at the French Culinary Institute in New York, and after breaking his neck in a car crash in 2010, he decided to donate his work to food, according to The New York Times.
Kimbal has been married twice: first to Jen Lewin, who co-created The Kitchen Restaurant Group with Big Green. They have two children together, Luca and August.
He married Christiana Wyly, the daughter of former billionaire Sam Wyly, in 2018 at a "close" wedding in Dallas.
Correction: Kimbal and Jen Lewin have only two children. An earlier version of the story says they have a third child.
Tosca Musk, Elon Musk’s younger sister, runs a streaming service called Passionflix.
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Tosca Musk. Araya Diaz / Getty images for PASSIONFLIX
Tosca Musk has been producing movies since 2001, and has done more than 30 so far, according to her IMDb page.
He is currently the founder and executive director of Passionflix, a streaming service for movies converted to love novels. Musk founded the company in 2016 and has raised more than $ 4 million from investors including Kimbal Musk.
Musk is single and has two children, twins named Isabeau and Grayson.
Lyndon Rive is the founder of SolarCity and a cousin of Elon Musk.
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Lyndon Rive. Rashid Umar Abbasi / Reuters
Lyndon Rive, along with his brother Peter, acquired SolarCity in 2006. He served as CEO of the company until the company was acquired by Tesla for $ 2.6 billion in 2016. Rive remained head of trade with Tesla's power division until 2017.
Prior to launching SolarCity, Rive founded a software company called Everdream with his brothers, Russell and Peter, in 1999. They sold it to Dell eight years later for $ 120 million.
Lyndon Rive is the cofounder of SolarCity and Elon Musk’s cousin.
Peter Rive. Photos of Mark Von Holden / AP of SolarCity
Lyndon Rive, along with his brother Peter, acquired SolarCity in 2006. He served as CEO of the company until the company was acquired by Tesla for $ 2.6 billion in 2016. Rive remained head of trade with Tesla's power division until 2017.
Prior to launching SolarCity, Rive founded a software company called Everdream with his brothers, Russell and Peter, in 1999. They sold it to Dell eight years later for $ 120 million.
Peter Rive is also the founder of SolarCity and is a cousin of Musk.
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Peter Rive. Photos of Mark Von Holden / AP of SolarCity
Peter Rive, founder of SolarCity and CTA, left Tesla eight months after acquiring SolarCity.
In February 2019, both Lyndon and Peter Rive joined Zola Electric, a start-up that focused on bringing clean, affordable energy to Africa.
Russ Rive is the founder of an art and technical production company called SuperUber. He’s also a cousin of Musk’s
Russ Rive. Brandon Williams / Getty
Russ Rive formed a software company called Everdream with his brothers, Lyndon and Peter. Since then he has set up production company SuperUber, which lists Tesla and SpaceX among its customers.
Almeda Rive is Russ, Peter, and Lyndon’s sister.
Competitive dirt bike rider, but not Almeda Rive. Mustafa Bayer / Anadolu Agency with Getty
Almeda Rive is a competitive dirt bike rider, according to Vanity Fair, and also worked in sales at SolarCity, according to LinkedIn.
