His brothers are Charlie Murphy & Vernon Lynch Jr. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Breyer's Ice Cream plant. Seiuli added that what she hated the most about the headline-making scandal was “being called a ‘drag queen’ by the press.Edward Regan Murphy was born Apin Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. There are conspiracy theories about her death, but it’s just conjecture.Īfter she passed away, the Village Voice published some quotes she had reportedly made to a performer shortly before her death, saying she respected Murphy’s privacy and hadn’t made any money off the scandal. (The police identified her as female, since she had reportedly started to transition.) She had apparently locked herself out of her fifth-floor apartment and tried to swing from the roof to her window on a towel and missed. That’s when she was found dead on a sidewalk - wearing only lingerie - outside her apartment building. (His people actually ran a Twitter account for him, but it was shut down last month after an erroneous tweet about a Coming to America sequel.)Īs for Seiuli, she was back in the news almost a year to the date after her arrest with Murphy. In that article, he also said he doesn’t own a computer, use email, or go on social media. (Had she gotten more money, she might have thrown it away anyway a con man later fleeced her out of $10 million of her divorce settlement.)Įddie Murphy with girlfriend Paige Butcher at an event in November. At the time of their divorce, there were rumors that the scandal was going to rear its ugly head again as they hashed out a settlement (she supposedly wanted more money), but that never materialized. … She was like, ‘Oh, Eddie, this could get twisted in all kinds of ways.’” But they stayed married - having five children ( he’s a dad of nine) - before they split in 2005. He told People that Nicole “was shocked at first. Murphy’s marriage initially withstood the scandal. It’s unclear what the outcome of that one was. Murphy also sued Seiuli’s chatty cousin for $1 million for talking to the tabloids. Soon after, he settled the suit with the Globe and then dropped the one against National Enquirer and had to pay the tabloid’s legal fees. Murphy ended up suing the National Enquirer and the Globe - for $5 million each - for libel, slander, and invasion of privacy for publishing interviews with trans prostitutes (yes, more than one came forward) who claimed to have had sexual relations with the actor. When Seiuli said yes, Murphy supposedly asked, “Can I see you in lingerie?’ I told him, ‘Whenever I have the time.’ He said, ‘I’ll make the time.'” Seiuli also said they discussed what kind of sex Seiuli liked, to which she replied “everything.” In the car, she claimed he placed two $100 bills on her leg and asked if she liked to wear lingerie. Seiuli reportedly told the tab in an article entitled “Eddie Murphy’s Secret Sex Life - His Transvestite Hooker Tells All” that she was looking for johns when Murphy drove up. The National Enquirer was said to have paid her $15,000 bail in exchange for her story. Murphy wasn’t the only one talking - so was Seiuli.
The People article noted some wrinkles in the star’s story, including the fact that Murphy said he was driving Seiuli home but they were pulled over after passing his residence. However, his passenger - who police described as a “known transsexual prostitute” - was picked up on an outstanding prostitution warrant. An interrogation by deputies determined no illegal activity had occurred.
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Murphy, then a 36-year-old movie megastar after making the jump from Saturday Night Live to the big screen ( Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places), wasn’t arrested or charged when he was stopped two miles after Seiuli (who was born a male but identified as a female and dressed like a woman) got in his car. To set the scene, Murphy’s run-in with police was two years after the Hugh Grant incident (Divine Brown!) and six years after Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) was arrested in an adult theater, and the public was prime for a new sex scandal, especially one that could imply that the comedian was maybe - gasp - gay, because the late ’90s were all about outing stars. after he picked up a transsexual prostitute, Atisone Seiuli (aka Shalimar), in his Toyota Land Cruiser at a known homosexual prostitution spot along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. (Illustration: Danny Miller Photos: Getty Images/AP)Įddie Murphy was four years into his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy on 20 years ago - when police pulled him over at 4:45 a.m. The incident remains one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of all time. Eddie Murphy said he was just being a “Good Samaritan” when he was pulled over with a prostitute 20 years ago.
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