Actor sues paper for $60M
NZPA-AP New York Eddie Murphy, the comedian, has sued the National Enquirer for SUS6O million ($115.8 million) over a report saying he was haunted by the killing of his father. The suit, filed in the United States Federal Court in New York yesterday, asks for a jury trial. The article, which appeared on November 19, was headlined, “Eddie Murphy Haunted by Dad’s Brutal Murder — He’s Afraid He’ll Die the Same Horrible Death.” Court papers allege that the “Enquirer” wove a totally false and defamatory article about the death of Charles Edward
Murphy, who was fatally stabbed by a girl-friend in 1969. The suit calls the headline outrageous and written in a manner calculated, to boost sales and said the story portrayed Murphy as paranoid, juvenile, insecure, and unstable. Paul Wolff, a lawyer for the “Enquirer,” declined to comment yesterday, saying that he had not seen the court papers. Murphy, aged 24, the star of the hit movies “Trading Places” and “Beverly Hills Cop,” once was a regular on the popular American varietycomedy television programme "Saturday Night Live.”
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Press, 24 January 1986, Page 6
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