The all the time controversial figure of Errol Musk – father of Elon – has resurfaced with one other eyebrow-raising take. This time the South African’s claiming that Jeffrey Epstein remains to be alive.
The 79-year-old made the comments during a primetime interview on Russian state television.
Asked, for some reason, about Epstein, Errol dismissed the official account of his death outright, leaning into long-running conspiracy theories about what exactly happened to the paedophile financier.
Convicted sex offender Epstein was found dead in his Latest York prison cell on August 10, 2019. He was, on the time, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in a case that drew global attention and limitless – ongoing – scrutiny.
Epstein’s death was formally ruled a suicide by town’s chief health worker. Questions on the circumstances have continued to flow into within the years since.
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‘For my part, it’s absurd to think that he’s dead. It’s ridiculous,’ Errol said.
The road didn’t land all that well, drawing quite a few groans from the studio audience. That didn’t slow him down, though.
‘The prison guards have come out to say that he was swapped out the night before he was imagined to commit suicide,’ he continued.
He then doubled down even further, adding: ‘The cameras were off on the fallacious time, the guards went to sleep.’
He then concluded: ‘It’s absolutely absurd to think that this man is dead. He’s alive and well.’
It’s a well-known line of considering in conspiracy circles. One which’s cropped up repeatedly because the news of Epstein’s death hit, alongside others.
The setting was fairly unusual. However, so was the claim. Errol is currently in Russia on a two-week visit focused on what’s been described as ‘research projects with Russian scientists’. He’s no stranger to the country, having made repeated trips in recent times.
Over the weekend, he was reportedly spotted at a Moscow cathedral attending an Orthodox Easter midnight service, an event also attended by none apart from Vladimir Putin himself.
The looks placed him alongside the Russian president on the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one of the vital outstanding religious sites within the country.
Errol has built something of a popularity for speaking his mind, whatever the audience or their response to what he comes out with.
That’s prolonged beyond geopolitics, too, occasionally drawing his circle of relatives into the conversation.
Musk has previously blamed his son for a falling out with Donald Trump, adding one more layer to an already complicated public dynamic.
The comments also sit against the backdrop of a long-running and infrequently strained relationship between Errol and his son, one which has played out in interviews through the years moderately than behind closed doors.
Elon Musk has previously described his father as ‘a terrible human being’, adding: ‘Almost every evil thing you may possibly consider, he has done.’
Errol, meanwhile, has been openly critical in his own way, offering a really different version of events when asked.
In a single interview, he said: ‘We’re a family which were doing a number of things for a very long time. It’s not as if we suddenly began doing something,’ before adding that he was ‘not proud’ of Elon in the way in which that a number of people might expect.
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