Elon Musk's estranged father Errol Musk has confirmed that he has welcomed a baby with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout.

Errol, an entrepreneurial engineer and former emerald dealer who lives in South Africa where Elon was raised, married Jana's mother Heide when Jana was just 4. The couple were married for 18 years, and have two children together.

However, Errol, 72, said he didn't consider 30-year-old Jana as his stepdaughter because, despite marrying her mother when she was a small child, she was raised away from him for long periods of time, according to The Sunday Times.

Musk Snr also suggested that it was "God's plan" that led him to having a child with Jana, who reportedly got in touch with him after splitting from her boyfriend.

"We were lonely, lost people," Errol told The Sunday Times. "One thing led to another – you can call it God's plan or nature's plan."

When Jana called Errol two months later to say she was pregnant, Errol requested a DNA test to confirm that he was the father.

"Jana is a delightful girl and a wonderful mother. She said I had changed her life," he added.

He also described their 10-month-old son as an "exquisite child". Musk Snr doesn't live with Jana and their son Eliot Rush, but is helping to support them.

According to the Mail Online, Errol initially told his daughter Ali about their new baby, but she was upset by the news and called him "insane, mentally ill".

"She told the others and they went berserk," Errol disclosed to the Mail Online.

Last year, 46-year-old billionaire tech tycoon Elon broke down in tears during an interview with Rolling Stone, during which he professed that his father was a "terrible human being".

Elon, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, added that Errol was guilty of "almost every crime you can possibly think of", and had done "almost every evil thing you could possibly think of".

"My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil," he added to the publication. "He will plan evil."

Errol denied his son's comments and said that he had never intentionally hurt or threatened anyone, or been charged with anything except for an incident when he shot dead three armed people who broke into his home.

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Thought this was going to be a Woody Allen thread