Eddie Murphy and Wife Paige Butcher Attend “Being Eddie” Premiere, Sharing Insight into Their Marriage and Family Life

Eddie Murphy was supported by his glamorous wife, Paige Butcher, at the premiere of his new Netflix documentary, Being Eddie, in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday evening. 

The American actor, 64, and the model, 46, who first met on the set of Big Momma’s House 2 in 2012, share two children, Izzy, nine, and Max, six, and tied the knot last year. 

For the couple’s public outing, Eddie stepped out in a black zip-up bomber jacket, paired with a black high-neck top and slim-fit jeans. 

He completed his smart-casual look with black lace-up boots as he and his gorgeous wife, Paige, put on a cosy display on the red carpet. 

Meanwhile, Paige looked sensational in a white figure-hugging midi dress which boasted structured shoulder pads, a plunging neckline, and a ruffle gathered bodice. 

She added inches to her frame with nude open-toe heels and further accessorised her look with a diamond pendant necklace and a dainty bracelet. 

The beauty beamed from ear to ear as she cosied up to her husband for several sweet snaps. 

Vernon Lynch Jr., Myles Murphy, Christian Murphy, Eric Murphy, Bella Murphy, Shayne Audra Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Bria Murphy Xavier and Angie Gonzalez were also in attendance at the star-studded event. 

Directed by Oscar-winning editor Angus Wall, the new Netflix documentary takes viewers inside Murphy’s rise to fame and gives a rare insight into his marriage and family life. 

The premiere comes after Eddie revealed how his ten children are the ‘centre of his everything’ as he opened up about fatherhood in his new documentary.

The comedian said before becoming a parent, he ‘only thought of himself’ and would sometimes stay awake for days, but has now turned his life around.

Eddie was previously engulfed in a vicious paternity battle with ex Mel B, 50, over their trans son Angel, 18, after he denied he was the father, leading to years of estrangement, before finally reconnecting. 

In his new documentary, Eddie said: ‘My kids are the centre of everything, before kids it’s just about you, once you have kids it’s all about them.

‘I used to stay up two days sometimes before going to bed. When I met [second wife Paige Butcher], I got more on her schedule, and now we watch two episodes of Seinfeld and go to bed.’ 

The Nutty Professor star is also father to Eric, 35, with ex Paulette McNeely; Bria, 35, Myles, 32, Shayne, 30, Zola, 25, and Bella, 23, with ex-wife Nicole Murphy; Christian, 34, with ex Tamara Hood; as well as Izzy and Max, with second wife Paige.

It was revealed earlier this year that the actor and Spice Girl’s once contentious relationship ‘flourished’ co-parenting their child, who is now living as a trans man.

Mel, 50, told US Weekly: ‘[Angel and Eddie] spend time together, they go on holiday together. He has ten kids, he’s a proper father. 

‘I think being in the kind of [situation] that I was in, it was hard for me to step out and have that relationship [with Eddie] flourish,’ referring to her ‘abusive’ marriage to ex-husband Stephen Belafonte. Allegations he denies. 

Scary Spice, who wed Rory McPhee in July, said she’d learned to co-parent with the celebrity hairstylist ‘bit by bit’ and admitted their friendship has ‘flourished even more’ as their son has grown up. 

Gushing about Angel, Mel told the publication: ‘He went to Japan last year with his girlfriend and just embraced the whole Japanese vibe, he speaks fluent Japanese and he knows exactly what he wants to do and where he wants to go’. 

Mel and Eddie first met at a party at his Beverly Hills mansion in 2006, and according to the Wannabe hitmaker, he had planned a ‘massive dinner party’ to meet her. 

When the pair first locked eyes on each other across the room, Mel said she ‘freaked out’ because he gazed at her with such familiarity she could ‘see my soulmate’.

The couple went on to shock fans with their unlikely coupling, which appeared to end as quickly as it started, before the singer, who was already mum to daughter Phoenix, now 26, with ex Jimmy Gulzar, announced she was pregnant. 

Mel said things turned sour after she fell pregnant and she fled to Leeds in the hope Eddie would follow her to win her back. 

However, he told a journalist in a TV interview that he questioned whether he was the father and would need a paternity test. 

However, during a 2019 appearance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, Mel said: ‘[Eddie] apologises to this day about that.  

‘He wishes he never said it because that baby was planned; we planned that baby together, and we were madly in love, and it just went wrong, dramatically went wrong.’ 

Reflecting on the relationship, she told the host: ‘We had something special that I’ve never really truly felt with anybody else. I’ve thought I’ve had it, but they’ve lied. 

‘His [Love] was pure. He is the love of my life. He always will be. He showed me what true love feels like, and for that I have the utmost admiration and respect for him.’

Writing in her 2018 memoir Brutally Honest, the pop star once again claimed the pair’s relationship lasted far longer and was more meaningful than had previously been suggested. 

She also claimed that it was she who forced Eddie to take the DNA test for him to acknowledge their child. 

She went on to say that Eddie had a ‘momentous’ effect on her life and that their bond was so close they even had each other’s autographs tattooed on the top of their thighs at a Hollywood tattoo parlour.

During their time together, Mel also wrote about how the star would play old Elvis movies and films like Blazing Saddles and also speak about his childhood in projects in New York, where he and his older brother Charlie were partly brought up in foster care at a time when their mother was ill.

‘He was fascinating to me. He’d had a life I couldn’t imagine,’ wrote Mel.