Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren in a New York Times report published Tuesday. Errol, a former politician and entrepreneur who claims to have made his fortune in emerald mining — though several accounts, including Elon’s, dispute that — has been married three times and has seven children, not including his stepchildren. An outspoken pronatalist, he once told The Sun that “the only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.” Elon, his oldest child, has been estranged from his father for years, though it’s unclear when exactly they stopped speaking.

The bulk of the allegations center on one of Errol’s stepdaughters, whose mother was his third wife, Heide-Mari Bezuidenhout. (They married in 1992.) Accordi

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