EXCLUSIVE: Woman who （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to be Elon Musk's secret half-sister tells how she learned she 株 the 億万長者's father and says he agreed to take a デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する） to 決定する paternity only to change his mind and 削減（する） her off weeks later

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Two months before she died, Riana 先頭 Deventer 召喚するd her son Gerrit to her 味方する. She had something important to tell him, she said.

先頭 Deventer, who had been 診断するd with 終点 結腸 癌, said that she was finally ready to divulge the family's 広大な／多数の／重要な secret - the 身元 of the father of Gerrit's older sister Riette.

It was, she （人命などを）奪う，主張するs, Errol Musk, the father of bazillionaire Elon Musk, the man behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX の中で other companies.

Now Riette - whose married 指名する is Nel - has 始める，決める out on a 追求（する），探索（する） to 証明する that she is the half-sister of the man who was 指名するd just last month as the second richest man in the world.

But she 主張するs she is not after the Musk billions.

'I don't want anything from Errol or Elon, I just want to know what my roots are,' Nel, 46, told DailyMail.com in an 排除的 interview.?

Riette Nel (left) is on a 追求（する），探索（する） to 証明する she is the 生物学の half-sister of 億万長者 and second richest person in the world, Elon Musk

Nel told DailyMail.com her late mother 明らかにする／漏らすd her real father is Errol Musk (pictured in 2014) in a death bed 自白 to her brother when she was 戦う／戦いing 終点 結腸 癌

'I have told Errol you are welcome to have your 弁護士／代理人／検事s draw up a 契約 which says I am not する権利を与えるd to any 肉親，親類d of remuneration.

'The only thing I am 利益／興味d in is to know if you're my dad.'

Nel, who now lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia, said she feels both she and her 21-year-old son Micha have a 権利 to know.

DailyMail.com has seen email and text messages between Nel and Errol Musk.?

最初 he seemed happy to take a デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する） that would settle the （人命などを）奪う，主張する that he has a fourth daughter.

But in 最近の weeks he changed his mind and, Nel says, he has 削減（する） off communication with her.

Riana?先頭 Deventer (pictured) died 老年の 65 in October 2019. She?divulged the family's 広大な／多数の／重要な secret to her son Gerrit before her death

Musk, 75, adamantly 否定するs he could be Nel's father. He told DailyMail.com that Nel had sent her a picture of her mother.

'I told her I have never seen the person in the photograph,' he said in an email.

Nel was born Mariette 先頭 Deventer in Ladysmith in eastern South Africa on August 8, 1975.?Her birth 証明書 does not 指名する a father. Her mother was 21 at the time of her birth.

Growing up, Riana told Riette that a friend 指名するd Rene was her father but she says she never believed her because she had no emotional 社債 with him.?

'We never felt that way に向かって each other,' she said.?

Later Riana confided she had gotten 妊娠している during a tryst at the Union Buildings - South Africa's 議会 which sits high on a hill overlooking the 資本／首都, Pretoria.

'They did what they did on the bonnet (hood) of his Rolls Royce,' Nel told DailyMail.com in her strong South African accent.

'But he was much more worried about any dents or scratches on his car than he was about caring about her.'

Errol Musk told DailyMail.com he did not own a Rolls Royce until 1981. At the time of Nel's conception, he said he drove a Mercedes Benz 220.

Nel said her mother would often go away with a rich suitor for long 週末s but she never 明らかにする／漏らすd who he was.

Growing up, Riette (pictured in her 青年) （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she was told her father was a friend of her mother's 指名するd Rene, which she said she never believed because she did not have an emotional 社債 with him

Nel was born Mariette 先頭 Deventer in Ladysmith in eastern South Africa on August 8, 1975. Her birth 証明書 does not 指名する a father

'All she told me was that the guy had a lot of money, he had a Rolls Royce and a ヨット.

'I believe that man was Errol because everything just fits.

'He was the guy with the money. He was the arrogant guy, self-する権利を与えるd, self-保証するd.

'And he didn't 扱う／治療する women the way he was supposed to.'

Riana died 老年の 65 in October 2019. During her talk with her son, she swore him to secrecy about Riette's father.

'She told me I wasn't to tell my sister,' Gerrit told DailyMail.com in a phone interview from South Africa.?

'She said she was sure that Elon Musk was Riette's brother. She didn't tell me it as an 絶対の fact, but she had that 信用／信任 in her 発言する／表明する that made me believe her すぐに.'

Gerrit, 39, kept his word to his mother for more than a year but 結局 in January this year he decided Riette - who h 広告 recently emigrated to Canada after her husband got a 職業 there - should know.

And that 始める，決める Nel off on a 追求（する），探索（する） to 証明する her fatherhood.

'Why would my mother 嘘（をつく） to my brother? She knew she was dying, she had nothing to lose and nothing to 伸び（る） from telling him,' she said.

Elon (pictured as a baby with his father) 50, is the oldest of Errol Musk's six 定評のある children. The father and son have long had a 複雑にするd 関係

After Errol and Elon's mother Maye (left) 離婚d in 1979, the 億万長者 tech 創立者 went to live with his father - a 決定／判定勝ち（する） Errol now says he 悔いるs

She 接触するd Errol, who lives a couple of hours outside of Cape Town, sending him pictures and asking if she could be his daughter.

He すぐに 認めるd the resemblance between Riette and his family.

'You are very beautiful,' he wrote 支援する in Afrikaans. 'You have strong 直面する features like all of us.

'Your 外見 makes me think 'whew.'

But he said he was happily married at the time to his first wife, the model Maye Haldeman, and his daughter Tosca had just been born.

'I didn't have any 関係s outside the marriage, but I don't have any problem with any 実験（する）,' he wrote 支援する.

He said he drove to Cape Town every week and could have the 実験（する） there. 'It is 比較して important that you understand that I don't run away from these things,' Errol wrote.?

But eight months after Nel first 接触するd him, Musk has still not taken any 実験（する） and she said they are no longer corresponding.

Musk, a 協議するing engineer, told DailyMail.com that Nel had told him her mother was a 売春婦 with 豊富な （弁護士の）依頼人s.?

'Apart from the fact that I have never met a 売春婦, I was not in a '豊富な' 部類 at that 行う／開催する／段階 of my practice.'

Nel 主張するs she said no such thing.?

'She was not his 売春婦, she was his mistress,' she said.

She 認める Riana 時代遅れの other 井戸／弁護士席-known men in South Africa, 含むing heavyweight boxer Pierre Coetzer, whose professional 対抗者s 含むd George Foreman, Riddick 屈服する and Frank Bruno.

In February, Riette 接触するd Errol, who lives a couple of hours outside of Cape Town, sending him pictures and asking if she could be his daughter

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Errol すぐに 認めるd the resemblance between Riette and his family and asked her to send more photos?

Later, in a conversation on March 25, he said he was happy to do a デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する）, 追加するing: 'It's pretty important that you know I'm not someone who runs away from things'

Musk also said he would never have cheated on Maye just four months after Tosca's birth.

'The idea of cheating on one's wife in those days was social anathema and 考えられない. In my 事例／患者 such a thing would have likely been a dance with death, or at least resulted in broken 四肢s or 永久の brain 傷害!

'Maye is not someone one cheats on, and besides I loved her dearly. At that time, we had been together since high school, which was more than ten years.?

'We had known each other since Grade 5.' They married in 1970.

He 否定するd cutting off correspondence with Nel.?

'I have told her there is no 可能性 that she is my daughter, but to be congenial I said I would consider a デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する） if I am 保証するd of privacy, and if she would 供給する me with proof of 身元.

'She 供給するd me with neither, 特に proof of 身元. For all I know 'she' could be ten people with some sort of crazy 計画（する） wanting this very 目だつ family's デオキシリボ核酸 for some nefarious 目的.'

Elon, 50, is the oldest of Errol's six 定評のある children. He has a 十分な-brother Kimbal, 48, and sister Tosca, 47. Errol also had two daughters Alexandra a nd Asha with his second wife Heide.

And DailyMail.com 明らかにする／漏らすd 排他的に in 2018 that Errol had fathered a son with Heide's daughter, Jana Bezuidenhout -his own stepdaughter.?

He later 確認するd it, 説 his son Elliott, now 4, had been conceived 'in the heat of the moment after Jana had been thrown out by her boyfriend.

Messages from April 26 show Nel sent Errol 多重の follow up messages to find a lab for the 実験（する）. He finally replied days later 説: 'I do not understand what you want'

One of his last messages to Nel read: 'You are not 関係のある to me. Anything you publish that's 誤った might 背負い込む a 訴訟. You do know that.'?

Errol 否定するd cutting off correspondence with Nel, telling DailyMail.com he had considered a デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する） 'if I am 保証するd of privacy, and if she would 供給する me with proof of 身元'

'I don't want to call it a mistake because no child wants to hear that they are a mistake,' he said.

'You have to understand, I've been 選び出す／独身 for 20 years and I'm a man who makes mistakes.'

Errol and Elon Musk have long had a 複雑にするd 関係. After Errol and Maye 離婚d in 1979, Elon went to live with his father - a 決定／判定勝ち（する） he now says he 悔いるs.

'I felt sorry for my father because my mother had all three kids,' he told Rolling 石／投石する in 2017.

'He seemed very sad and lonely by himself. So I thought, 'I can be company.

'But I didn't really understand at the time what 肉親，親類d of person he was.'

He went on to break 負かす／撃墜する in 涙／ほころびs during the interview and call Errol 'a terrible human 存在,' 追加するing: 'Almost every evil thing you could かもしれない think of, he has done.'

'My dad will have a carefully thought-out 計画（する） of evil,' he 追加するd. 'He will 計画（する） evil.'

Nel said she had written to Elon Musk - who Forbes?指名するd last month as the second richest man in the world, 価値（がある） $177.4billion, behind only アマゾン's Jeff Bezos - and to Tosca and Kimbal asking if they would take デオキシリボ核酸 実験（する）s. But, she said, 非，不，無 replied.

Elon Musk did not 答える／応じる to a request for comment.

Elon and his brother Kimbal, 48, and sister Tosca, 47, (pictured) were raised by their mother Maye

Maye Musk 提起する／ポーズをとるs with Kimbal, Tosca on her （競技場の）トラック一周, and Elon standing behind in South Africa

She believes Elon's Musk 創立／基礎 could have 圧力d Errol to 削減（する） off communication with her, 特に as one of his last messages was: 'You are not 関係のある to me. Anything you publish that's 誤った might 背負い込む a 訴訟. You do know that.'

Musk said the family lawyers had told him he was 解放する／自由な to proceed however he 手配中の，お尋ね者 in the 事例／患者 but said 'proof of 身元 was 必須の beforehand.'

Both Nel and her brother say their mother never used computers or went on the Internet. She didn't even have a smart phone.?

They say there is no way she could have 研究d Errol Musk and come up with enough 詳細（に述べる）s to （不足などを）補う her story.

'She wasn't into Google or the Internet, television shows, 独房 phones, anything like that,' said Nel.

'She loved gardening and herbs and just 存在 肉親，親類d.'?

Elon Musk was 指名するd the second richest man in the world just last month. Riette 主張するs she's not after his billions and is only 利益／興味d in learning who her father is?

Nel is now left to wonder if she'll ever learn the truth about her 生物学の father. A 見本 of her デオキシリボ核酸 remains at a lab in Pretoria を待つing its possible match

Gerrit 先頭 Deventer agreed. 'She had no 接近 to the Internet, no smart phone but she told me things about Errol Musk that she could not have known,' he said.

Now Riette Nel is left in limbo. She is sure she finally knows who her father is but cannot 証明する it. A 見本 of her デオキシリボ核酸 is sitting in a lab in Pretoria を待つing its possible match.

She has considered taking a trip to her 母国 to 直面する Errol. 'I would go to South Africa in an instant and try to 会合，会う him 直面する-to-直面する, but Errol will not show up,' she told DailyMail.com.

'I don't want to believe it, but I have come to the 結論 that Errol Musk is someone that just cannot be 信用d. I want to think he can be, but now I feel he is not to be believed.

'I keep asking myself why doesn't he g o to get 実験（する）d? If he is not my dad he has nothing to lose. But in his own words I look like a Musk and in his own words he doesn't run away from things.

'So go for the 実験（する）. If it's 消極的な then I can move on and you can move on.'