Musk had a complicated relationship with his father and admitted that there was a mine in his family when he was a child.
Beijing, September 23 (Xinhua) Musk said in response to a tweet that he came from a family in South Africa that owns half of the minerals and that he had seen a box of low-quality jadeite jewelry at home when he was young.
Teenage Musk used to walk the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. According to his father's recollection, while his father was sleeping, Musk, then 16, decided to sell jade on New York's Fifth Avenue to Tiffany, one of the world's most famous jewellers. Musk and his brother walked into Tiffany and said, "do you want to buy some emeralds?" . Errol recalled in an interview. They sold two emeralds, one for $800,000 and the other for $1200.
A few days later, his family came to the store and found that Tiffany was selling the $24000 jade now embedded in the ring-an increase of 30 times the price of the gems Musk received. Since then, Errol has used the story as an object course on how retail works. Errol said he was surprised but not worried.
The world's richest man says he and his brother have provided money for their father, Errol Musk, since his father "had no money in the 1990s". "since then, my brother and I have supported him and his extended family in South Africa financially on the condition that he does not do bad things," Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday (September 21). But unfortunately, he did do bad things. "
Although it is not clear what Musk meant by what he called his father's "bad things", he called his father a "bad person" in an interview in 2017. 'He did everything evil you can think of,'he said in an interview.
The relationship between Musk and his father seems to be complicated. Musk and his ex-wife "do not allow their children to meet Errol", according to Musk's official biography published in 2017.
However, in an interview on Wednesday (September 21), his father, Errol, said he had seen his grandson play the piano and recently met his son in Texas.
