Eddie Murphy’s – Paige Butcher and Eddie Murphy have built a long, mostly private life together—dating since 2012, welcoming two children, getting engaged in 2018, and marrying on July 9, 2024 on Anguilla.
The first time Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher appeared as a couple in public, it was for a tribute—arm-in-arm on a red carpet in November 2012. Murphy wore a classic suit, Butcher a blue dress. The contrast felt simple and lived-in, the kind of visibility that didn’t try to chase attention.
Six years later, that relationship moved into another kind of spotlight. They got engaged in September 2018, and a rep for the actor confirmed the news to PEOPLE after Butcher was seen wearing a diamond ring in public.
Then came the day many fans have been waiting to pin down: July 9, 2024. Murphy and Butcher married in a small ceremony on the island of Anguilla—family and close friends there. weeks after Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F premiere. Murphy wore an all-ivory suit, while Butcher chose a lacy white gown and a matching bouquet.
Before all of that. though. there was a quieter beginning in 2012. when they first started dating and later welcomed two children together—daughter Izzy Oona Murphy and son Max Charles Murphy. Izzy was born on May 3, 2016. Max arrived on Nov. 30, 2018. And even as their life expanded, Butcher’s relationship to attention stayed careful.
In an October 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, she explained why she avoids posting on social media. “I’m in a relationship with a celebrity. so I felt like there’s already enough of me out there.” She also said she had accounts on Facebook. Instagram and X in the past. but “eventually got rid of all of them.”.
Murphy, for his part, keeps a similar distance. He told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in August 2016. “I don’t need to be on social media interacting with the fans. tweeting that I just ate strawberries.” He added. “I’m checking y’all out while y’all are doing it. but nothing has made me go ‘I wanna be on there with y’all. ’ ”.
But privacy doesn’t mean absence from the public world. Butcher has still been there—choosing appearances that feel purposeful rather than constant. She spoke about Murphy during the red carpet at the 2020 Golden Globes. When asked what he whispered to her. Murphy told Extra. “I told her how wonderful she looks.” Butcher chimed in. “He actually says that kind of stuff all the time.” She added. “He’s very. very sweet and romantic.”.
Three years later, Murphy thanked Butcher and his children for their “love and support” when he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the same event. The tribute later became available as streaming on Netflix in April 2026, and Murphy’s words carried a family-focused warmth. “Just looking out and seeing all my family. all my kids. my beautiful wife. seeing all my different people that I worked with. it’s just really filled up. ” he said after his tribute.
Their family life sits on more than one timeline. Butcher is also stepmother to Murphy’s eight children, and in 2018 a source told PEOPLE that she is “very close with Eddie’s kids.” In July 2016, she and Murphy joined Murphy’s ex-wife at the premiere of their daughter Bria’s movie.
The story of Paige Butcher doesn’t start with Murphy, though. She was born in Perth, Australia. In an October 2013 Vanity Fair interview. she said her mother was a fashion designer. and that she wore her mother’s clothing as a child. After years of modeling her mother’s pieces and getting compliments, Butcher said the encouragement became career direction. “I was modeling for my mum’s stuff. and everybody said. ‘You should be a model.’ So at 13. I started really taking it more seriously. ” she said.
Butcher also attended Santa Maria College, a Catholic girls’ school in the riverside suburb of Attadale, Australia. After graduation. her path sharpened fast: she won the 1994 Cover Girl Cosmetics Supermodel Search and earned an IMG modeling contract. per The West Australian. That contract helped secure a trip to New York City. where she worked for magazines and brands over the next decade—including landing a Maxim cover in 2004.
Her own answer to what she wanted didn’t sound uncertain. “I’ve always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want,” Butcher said, per The West Australian.
Around the same period, she started moving into acting. She had a minor role in the 2003 romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give. Later, in 2006, she was cast in the comedy sequel Big Momma’s House 2 as an extra.
Even her fitness habits match her personality—active, but not drawn to the gym routine. In her October 2013 Vanity Fair interview, she said she prefers keeping fit without gym equipment. She explained that, as an Australian, she likes the outdoors and gardening. After living in N.Y.C. for 14 years, she moved to L.A. “mainly for the lifestyle. ” and she tries to build fitness into daily life—hiking. biking. and even doing lunges in the kitchen while waiting for water to boil.
“I like going to the beach in Venice and riding my bike for a couple hours,” Butcher said. “I get very bored working out. I would rather do something fun.”
And she has continued to show up for Murphy when it matters. Most recently, she accompanied him to the L.A. premiere of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F in June 2024. Murphy’s daughters Bria, Shayne Audra and Bella were there with them.
The couple’s timeline—dating from 2012, engagement in September 2018, marriage on July 9, 2024 on Anguilla—reads like milestones. But the way it has been reported is more telling in the details: social media distance. a steady emphasis on family. and support that often shows up in premieres and awards rather than constant headlines.
By the time Murphy stood onstage in April 2026 to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. the arc felt complete. In the tribute. now streaming on Netflix. he credited his “beautiful wife” and “all my kids” with filling his life—while the public story of Paige Butcher remains mostly what she prefers it to be: present. supportive. and carefully kept.
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