Eddie Murphy Will Be a Father for the Ninth Time

 

Believe or not, this is no joke as Eddie Murphy is going to be a father for the ninth time.

The 54 years old comedian and his 36 years old girlfriend Paige Butcher are pleased to announce that they are expecting a child in May. This will be the first child for Butcher, an actress and model who has been dating the Coming to America actor for four years.

In the last four years, neither Murphy nor Butcher have said much about each other in the press. In 2013, Butcher did open up to Vanity Fair and admitted that her relationship with Murphy made her wary of joining social media. She said “I'm in a relationship with a celebrity, so I felt like there's already enough of me out there, I felt like I was giving out too much information. I was giving people too much access. I like to keep as much private as possible now”.

As Murphy and Butcher prepare for the arrival of their first child together, the actor is also gearing up for a role in director Lee Daniels' Richard Pryor biopic. As Deadline reported in August, Murphy was tapped to play Pryor's father, Leroy "Buck Carter" Pryor. Mike Epps will play the iconic comedian, while Oprah Winfrey will star as Pryor's grandmother, who ran a brothel and raised Pryor there. Kate Hudson was cast as Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor.