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.”

Elon Musk has tried to buy OpenAI for nearly $100 billion and CEO Sam Altman had the perfect comeback for him.

Altman reportedly declared that the OpenAI board offered $97.4 billion bid by the Tesla CEO and a group of investors to take over the AI company.

“It is time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” Marc Toberoff, an attorney representing the investors, told The Wall Street Journal. “We will make sure that happens.”

However, according to the Information, the AI founder dismissed the offer pretty quickly, informing staff in a memo that the company had no interest in the ‘supposed bid’.

And instead of just rejecting the offer, he threw some online shade.

“no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman indirectly shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday (10 February).

It seems Altman isn’t easily swayed by Musk’s billion-dollar offer.

Shortly after he shared his post, Musk fired back at Altman, calling him a ‘swindler.’

Viewers were loving the drama on the social forum yesterday.

Some people attached laughing and popcorn-eating gifs, adding comments like: “another saga,” “Savage!” and “lol

Never leaving this app”.

Others were loving the fact Altman referred to the platform as ‘Twitter’ replying with: “Still calling it Twitter. Respect” and “Excellent. Also please continue to call it twitter. Most of the rest of us do.”

This latest clash is just another round in the ongoing feud between the co-founders of OpenAI.

Musk helped found the AI company in 2015 when it was created as a nonprofit to ensure that AI would benefit all humanity.

However, the company began to shift towards a commercial purpose and the SpaceX founder left the company in 2018 due a power struggle.

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In 2022, OpenAI became one of the most well-funded machine-learning startups globally with with the release of its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. By 2023, it had secured over $12 billion in investments. Now, with the latest investment funds and backing from software giant Microsoft, the company is worth a whopping $157 billion.

Musk, on the other hand, became highly critical of OpenAI’s direction and even filed several lawsuits against the company last year, claiming it betrayed its original mission and violated licensing agreements.

The tech mogul launched his own AI company called xAI as a direct competitor of OpenAI. However, if the bid was to have been accepted, it could put Musk as a major player in the AI industry (if he wasn’t already). 

As the father of Elon Musk, Errol Musk has something of a tumultuous relationship with his son. Musk Sr. has frequently spoken out about their time together, while his son has also given the odd insight into his upbringing. When Joshua Rubin recently asked Errol whether Elon had been a good father on his Wide Awake Podcast, the former defiantly said, “No, he hasn’t been a good dad,” and said the children have spent too much time with nannies.

Not one to keep family politics a secret, Errol Musk has recently revealed more to Ukrainian-American interviewer DJ Vlad. As well as discussing the controversial romantic relationship between him and his own stepdaughter, Musk spoke about his son’s former political stance and how he once had no love for Donald Trump.

Errol Musk reveals that his son wasn’t always a fan of Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty)

Referring to a time not long before the 2016 Presidential Election when Trump won against Hillary Clinton, Errol explained how his sons Kimbal and Elon Musk confronted him over his support of the Republican leader. Elon ended up falling out with his father, as Errol explained it all went down during his 70th birthday celebrations. Over dinner, The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau reportedly asked Errol about his support for Trump.

With the room apparently laughing at Errol, he said: “He’s [Trump] just like us…in my mind, he’s doing the same kind of work I always did, property development, and he’s much bigger than I’ve ever been.

“It’s great to see somebody who’s not a career politician doing this kind of thing.”

With some coarse language, Errol Musk says the lunch came to a ‘grizzly’ end. After being left on his own, Errol says Kimbal and Elon came back to him and continued: “Elon said, ‘Trump is evil’, and so on.

“Very matter of fact, saying, ‘Look he’s evil, get it into your head.'”

Errol maintains that his sons left and it was never mentioned again. It seems ironic given Elon Musk’s current position as the President’s so-called ‘First Buddy’ and new role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Musk recently stole the limelight from the POTUS when he and his son hosted a press conference at the Oval Office.

Way back when, Elon Musk was vocally against Trump ahead of the 2016 election, telling CBS: “I feel a bit stronger that he is not the right guy. He doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.”

Jump forward to 2025, DJ Vlad referred to Musk as Donald Trump’s ‘best friend’. A chuckling Errol said: “It’s funny, it’s weird, that’s really weird.”

These days, Elon Musk has gone as far as professing his ‘love’ for Mr. Trump, suggesting that time can heal (almost) all wounds. 

By the year 2030, NASA plans to officially shut down the International Space Station.

After two decades of orbiting Earth, the ISS will be decommissioned, deorbited and destroyed – marking the end of an era in space exploration.

Although, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk want this done sooner as he believes the ISS has outlived its usefulness.

Taking to X, Musk wrote: “It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the Space_Station It has served its purpose.”

He then responded to a comment on the post, adding: “My recommendation is as soon as possible. I recommend 2 years from now.”

Leaving the ISS floating in orbit isn’t an option. In June last year, the US space agency awarded SpaceX a $1 billion (£778 million) contract to help destroy the ISS safely.

But just how exactly will bringing down the largest object ever constructed in orbit go down?

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“The ISS could break apart and create a lot of fragments and debris,” says Professor John Crassidis, an expert on space debris from University at Buffalo, New York.

“That debris could hit other debris and we end up with something called Kessler Syndrome.” This chain reaction could create more collisions, potentially wiping out our communication satellites and making future space missions nearly impossible.

Starting in 2026, the station will naturally sink from 400km (248 miles) to 320km (199 miles) due to Earth’s atmosphere.

About six months before re-entry, astronauts will abandon the station, leaving it unmanned for the first time in over 25 years. Once the ISS reaches 280km (174 miles), a SpaceX-designed tug (adapted from the Dragon capsule) will push it further down to 220km (137 miles). Here, the thicker atmosphere will take over and rob the outpost of its remaining orbital energy.

As the ISS plunges through the atmosphere, intense friction will tear it apart. “The solar panels will be the first to separate and break up,” noted Crassidis.

However, not every part of the ISS will be incinerated.

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Some of its heavier components, like the truss segments, may survive re-entry and land in the ocean. As such, mission controllers will need to ensure that the remaining debris is as far away from people as possible. They agreed on a remote part of the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo.

This ‘spacecraft cemetery’ claimed its name since becoming the final resting place for hundreds of decommissioned spacecraft, including Russia’s Mir space station, which was brought down in 2001. The closest land to the site is Motu Nui, a tiny volcanic island near Easter Island, sitting over 2,700km (1,678 miles) away.

Within an hour, whatever remains of the ISS will sink to the seafloor, having crashed into the ocean at a few hundred miles per hour.

But dumping space hardware parts in the ocean doesn’t come without risk.

Some NASA experts argue that toxic and radioactive materials could survive re-entry and leak into the Pacific. Not only that but the act of dumping the ISS could violate United Nations environmental laws, which require nations to ‘protect and preserve the marine environment.’

But, unless a better solution comes about, NASA and SpaceX are moving forward with their current plan to bring the ISS down as safely as possible.