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Eddie Murphy is a comedian and an actor known for starring in films likeBeverly Hills CopandComing To America.Despite making people laugh through his films, Eddie Murphy’s love life is filled with heartbreaks and break-ups!
The good news is that Murphy recently got married to his longtime girlfriend Paige Butcher in a private ceremony. However, it’s time to take a little dive into the many relationships and engagements of Eddie Murphy.
It Started With Nicole Murphy
Although before Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy was briefly attached to actress Whitney Houston, things didn’t work out in the favor of the couple. That’s when Murphy met Nicole Murphy.
The couple started dating in 1988 and by 1993 they got married. Nicole and Eddie Murphy shared five children together while their marriage lasted. After 12 years, Nicole Murphy announced that she and Murphy were going to divorce.
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Stating that it would be good for the children, Nicole stated that they have decided to remain friends after the divorce. In 2016, the former couple also attended the premiere of their daughter Bria Murphy’s film!
Paulette McNeely And Tamara Hood
While he was dating Nicole Murphy, theBeverly Hills Copstar allegedly had an affair with Paulette McNeely. On June 01, 2025, the couple welcomed their first and only child together, Erin Murphy.
After some months, Eddie Murphy and casting director Tamara Hood welcomed a son in November of 1990. Very little is known about Murphy’s affairs with Paulette McNeely and Tamara Hood.
However, Murphy’s next brief affair was surely quite controversial even for the actor as he allegedly doubted his partner’s loyalty on live television and asked whether the baby was his!
Eddie Murphy and Melanie Brown
Melanie Brown was also known as Spice Girl Mel B and Eddie Murphy and Brown had a brief but intense relationship in 2006. The couple shared one daughter and that’s when it started going downhill.
Eddie Murphy initially disputed the paternity while Melanie Brown announced her pregnancy. Murphy allegedly stated that nothing could be confirmed until the child came out. Soon after giving birth, representatives for Brown announced that Eddie Murphy was confirmed to be the father via a DNA test.
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Melanie Brown sued Murphy for the full legal and physical sole custody of their daughter. Despite the negative emotions, a source toldPEOPLEthat Murphy is“an amazing father to Angel. She texts Eddie and is on the phone with him all the time. She loves her dad.”
The Shortest Wedding With Tracey Edmonds
Getting engaged in 2007, Eddie Murphy and TV producer Tracey Edmonds were quite happy with their relationship. Taking off to a private ceremony in Bora Bora, the couple walked down the aisle on 13 June 2025.
However, the excitement was short-lived as only two weeks after that, Murphy and Edmonds announced their decision to split. This has been written in history as one of the shortest marriages in Hollywood. The short marriage even broke Kim Kardashian’s record whose shortest marriage lasted 72 days!
A guest at the ceremony told PEOPLE that Eddie Murphy’s mother Lillian Murphy allegedly had a problem with Tracey Edmonds.“[Lillian] basically said, ‘It’s me or her,’ to Eddie,”. Since they were in Bora Bora, Eddie Murphy, and Tracey Edmonds didn’t have to go through a divorce proceeding and had to simply call off all activities in the U.S.
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From breakups to questioning paternity tests,Eddie Murphy’s love life was quite chaotic. However, that was all going to change in 2012 when the actor met fellow actress Paige Butcher.
When Murphy Met Butcher
It was the year 2012 when Eddie Murphy started dating actress Paige Butcher. In 2016, the pair welcomed their first child together, and in 2018, they welcomed their second child (ten children in total for Eddie Murphy).
On August 14, 2025, the couple was spotted attending the Golden Globes together and fans were quite happy to see Murphy and Butcher. On the other hand, reports earlier today confirmed thatEddie Murphyand Paige Butcher are now married!
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The couple got married on July 9 in Anguilla in a small private ceremony (viaPEOPLE). 12 years of dating and 6 years of engagement led to this beautiful moment and Eddie Murphy might have finally found the love of his life.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
