Eddie Murphy reveals his son and Martin Lawrence's daughter are officially married: 'We're in-laws'
"Actually, they got married, like, two weeks ago," Murphy tells his Dreamgirls costar Jennifer Hudson on Thursday's episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. (See the conversation in the clip below.) "They went off.... Everybody was making the big wedding plans, and they decided they wanted to do something quiet with just the two of them."
Murphy confirmed that he and Lawrence, his costar in projects such as Boomerang and Life, are now related by marriage.
"Yeah, we're in-laws," he said. "And he doesn't have to pay for that big wedding now."
The Coming to America star, who's a father of 10, had famously planned to have Lawrence pick up the tab on Eric and Jasmin's nuptials. (Lawrence is the father of three daughters.)
"Well, Eddie said I gotta pay for it," Lawrence said in December 2024 on iHeartRadio's Big Boy's Neighborhood. "He said I gotta pay for it, 'cause he paid for his last daughter's wedding — like the last six weddings — but he said it's my turn now."
Eric and Jasmin began dating in 2021, and they announced their engagement in November 2024.
When Hudson asked whether Murphy had sung at the wedding, the "Party All the Time" artist shut her down.
"No, they didn't have a wedding. They went off and they got married at the church. They just had the two of them and the preacher," Murphy said. "They had a quiet little thing. So I think we'll have like a big party or something."
So will Murphy sing at the celebration? He joked that he and Lawrence might do a duet.Murphy's also hoping for a more professional reunion with the Bad Boys franchise star.
"There's a bunch of ideas that we have," he said. "There's one thing: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It's a movie from the ʼ60s. I want to remake it and do with all the funniest, like a who's who of Black comedy. That's what I want to do. And, of course, Martin would be in that."
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