In recent months, Elon Musk has backtracked on previous claims that his family owned part of an emerald mine. But according to his dad? The mine was real.

For example, on Dec. 28, 2019, he tweeted that his father "didn't own an emerald mine" and that he (Elon) had worked his way through college, ending up with around $100,000 in student debt.

Five of Elon’s companies—Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring Company and X, formerly known as Twitter—did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the emerald mines.

Elon Musk put a million dogecoin bounty down for anyone who can prove the existence of an emerald mine. His father says he can. The Tesla CEO, 51, last week offered a million Dogecoin (about AU ...

Elon Musk 's biographer set the record straight on whether Errol Musk ever owned an emerald mine. Walter Isaacson spoke to Musk's father Errol, who told him he exchanged a plane for emeralds.

Here's everything to know about Elon Musk's estranged father Errol Musk, from his former career as the reported owner of an emerald mine to his relationship with his Tesla CEO son.

Elon Musk’s dad tried to prove his son wasn’t racist in all the wrong ways. Errol, the 79-year-old father of the world’s richest man, insisted that his children were not into “political ...

“He didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt,” Musk said. “I couldn’t even afford a 2nd PC at Zip2, so programmed at night & website ...

A new biography of Elon Musk has confirmed the existence of emerald mines in Zambia tied to his father. Musk has previously vehemently denied the existence of the mines, and offered around R1.6 ...

Elon has tried to distance himself from his father's emerald mining background. In 2014 he bragged about his father's involvement in the mine, but in 2021 — when he came under scrutiny for his ...

Move over, Elon — there’s another Musk hitting the headlines. Errol Musk, the family’s patriarch, is in the news after confirming he fathered a second secret love child with his stepdaughter ...