Eddie Murphy Marries Paige Butcher in Private Caribbean Ceremony

Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher attend the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

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Wedding bells are ringing for Eddie Murphy.

The comedian has married Australian model Paige Butcher in a private ceremony, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

According to People magazine, which also shared exclusive photos from the ceremony, Murphy and Butcher got married on Tuesday, July 9, in Anguilla during a small private ceremony in front of family and close friends. 

The couple first got engaged in September 2018 after dating since 2012. They share an 8-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. They welcomed their first child together in 2016. The couple then welcomed their second child in 2018 after getting engaged.

Murphy is a father of 10.

While accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, Murphy briefly thanked Butcher and his children: “I want to say thank you to Paige and all of my amazing children for your love and support and inspiration.”

This marks the second marriage for Murphy and the first for Butcher.

Murphy’s nuptials come amid his recent return to his iconic Beverly Hills Cop role Axel Foley decades after the original 1984 movie with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

In the fourth installment, which debuted on Netflix on July 3, Murphy returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter’s life is threatened. There, he teams up with new partner Detective Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old friends John Taggart (John Ashton) and Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) to uncover a conspiracy.

During an appearance on the Today show, Murphy joked about reprising the role, “It felt like old man. I did Beverly Hills Cop when I was 21, and I’m 63 now.”

“Beverly Hills Cop was my first movie that I’m the lead in. If I travel overseas they call me Axel Foley,” he said. “Axel is an everyman. He’s not a superhero or a super-cop, he’s the everyman that rises to the occasion. I think that’s why people like it. And more than anything, he’s funny.”