Eddie Murphy - Family and Companions

• father Charles Murphy: left family when Murphy was three; stabbed to death when Murphy was eight
• mother Lillian Murphy Lynch:
• step-father Vernon Lynch: worked at an ice-cream plant; died on June 16, 2001 at the age of 68
• brother Charles Murphy: appeared as bouncer in Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" (1990)
• step-brother Vernon Lynch:
• daughter Bella Zahra Murphy: born on January 29, 2002; mother, Nicole Mitchell
• daughter Bria Murphy: born on November 18, 1989 in Sacramento, California; mother, Nicole Mitchell
• son Christian Murphy: born c. 1991; mother, Tamara Moore
• son Miles Mitchell Murphy: born on November 7, 1992; named after jazz great Miles Davis; mother, Nicole Mitchell
• daughter Shayne Audra Murphy: born on October 10, 1994; mother, Nicole Mitchell
• daughter Zola Ivy Murphy: born on December 24, 1999; mother, Nicole Mitchell

• Halle Berry:
• wife Nicole Mitchell: born c. 1968; together from the late 1980s; married on March 18, 1993; mother of five of Murphy's children
• Tamara Moore: mother of Murphy's son Christian