
Iconic American comedian Eddie Murphy has had some well-publicised romantic relationships (think Spice Girl Mel B), but one thing about his current fiancée Paige Butcher isn’t as well-known: she’s an Aussie, from Perth.
Butcher, 40, has been with the 58-year-old Coming to America star since 2012. They have two children together; Max, who was born in November last year, and three-year-old daughter Izzy.
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Here’s what else we know about the Australian woman who would become a successful model, and the mum of Murphy’s ninth and 10th children.
Butcher’s Australian background.
We only know some basic things about Butcher’s childhood in Australia: she was born in Attadale, a suburb of the city of Perth, she attended Santa Maria College, and her father is former Aussie model, Robert Butcher.
Butcher’s career after Perth.
When she was just 14, Butcher won the Cover Girl Cosmetics Supermodel Search, which secured her an IMG modelling contract, and took her to New York.
Butcher’s father Robert told The West Australian in 2012 that her modelling career became so successful that she only managed to come home to Perth once a year after that.