Eddie Murphy’s dark side Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy in “Coming to America” Paramount/Courtesy Everett Col Murphy denied it and there was no evidence that it was true, but Stallone believed it. Hollywood A-listers Stallone and Murphy had been great friends, even writing a pitch together for a third “Godfather” film that would have co-starred them with Al Pacino.īut after Murphy hired Stallone’s then-wife, Brigitte Nielsen, to play the villain in 1987’s “Beverly Hills Cop II,” a rumor started that Murphy and Nielsen had been more than just castmates. “I didn’t f–k your wife!”īut despite Murphy’s protests, as Nick de Semlyen writes in his new book about film comedies - “ Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ’80s Changed Hollywood Forever” (Crown Archetype, out May 28) - the damage had been done. “You f–ked my wife!” he screamed at Murphy. Sylvester Stallone was on the phone with Eddie Murphy, and the “Rocky” superstar was angry enough to demolish a side of beef.
