Jana Bezuidenhout is a media personality in South Africa, the stepdaughter of Errol Musk, and stepsister of the world’s richest man Elon Musk. Jana has two children with his stepfather. Her mother Heide was married to Errol for 18 years in the 90s.
Jana Bezuidenhout Family Life
She was born on March 11 1988 in South Africa to Heide Bezuidenhout and her father who died in a car crash in 1992. Jana was raised along with her siblings Jock Jr and Harry, and step-siblings Elon, Tosca, Kimbal, Alexandra, and Asha. Her stepfather Errol came into her life when she was four years old and divorced when she was in her 20s.
After her mother and stepfather Errol separated, they moved away and did not speak until she called him asking for help as she was homeless after being thrown out by her boyfriend. After several interactions, they started a romantic relationship and had Elliot Rush in 2017 and a daughter in 2019.
Who is Jana Bezuidenhout’s Stepbrother Elon Musk?
Elon Musk is a South African American businessman and tech billionaire in the space company, SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is the founder and owner of PayPal, Zip2, xAI, Neural Ink, Open AI C Corp, and Space X. He was appointed by Donald Trump as the chair of the Department of Government Efficiency in the second Trump administration in 2024.
His first invention was with his brother, they founded the city guide software company Zip2 with maps, Yellow Pages, and directions, and sold it for $307 million in 1999 to Compaq. He co-founded X.com which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal, and sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion and used $100 million of the money to fund SpaceX.
Musk was one of the early investors in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. serving as the chairman in 2004. He became the product architect and the CEO in 2008. He created Solar City which was rebranded to Tesla Energy. He co-founded OpenAI a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company. in 2016 he co-founded Neural Ink a neurotechnology company aiming to develop brain-computer interfaces.
Twitter was acquired by Musk in 2022 for $44 billion and merged it with X Corp rebranding it to X. He founded xAI in 2023, an artificial intelligence company. Musk has been featured in films like Iron Man 2, Why Him, Men in Black, Rick and Morty, South Park, Young Sheldon, and The Simpsons.
Musk married his first wife, a Canadian author Justine Wilson, in 2000 and had a child who died of infant death syndrome. They used IVF and had twins in 2004 and triplets in 2006 but divorced in 2008 sharing custody of their children. He married English actress Talulah Riley in 2010 at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. They divorced in 2012 but reunited and after four years, they divorced again. He dated Amber Heard for a few months and Canadian musician Grimes and had a son in 2020, a daughter via surrogacy, and a son in 2023. He welcomed twins with his top Neural ink executive Shivon Zilis. He has an estimated net worth of $304 billion and is the wealthiest man in the world.
