Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher are Married after Nearly 6-Year Engagement

Eddie Murphy and his longtime partner Paige Butcher tied the knot in the Caribbean island of Anguilla in a small intimate ceremony attended by family and friends this week. 

The pair reportedly wed on Tuesday. Their surprise wedding comes shortly after the “Daddy Day Care” actor called the Australian model his “wife” during an interview with the New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast.

The pair have been dating since 2012 and got engaged in 2018. 

By then, they had welcomed their daughter, 8-year-old Izzy. Butcher gave birth to their son, Max, 5, shortly after they got engaged.

Murphy has eight other children from four different relationships. His first child, a son named Eric, was born in 1989. He shares him with his former girlfriend, Paulette McNeely.

He also fathered five children — daughters Bria, 34, Shayne, 29, Zola, 24, and Bella, 22, and son Myles, 31 — with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy, 56. They separated in 2005 after 12 years of marriage.

He welcomed a son named Christian with his ex-partner Tamara Hood in 1990. Christian arrived between the birth of two of his kids — Myles and Bria — with Nicole.