The National Enquirer was said to have paid her $15,000 bail in exchange for her story. Murphy wasn’t the only one talking - so was Seiuli. The People article noted some wrinkles in the star’s story, including the fact that Murphy said he was driving Seiuli home but they were pulled over after passing his residence. However, his passenger - who police described as a “known transsexual prostitute” - was picked up on an outstanding prostitution warrant. An interrogation by deputies determined no illegal activity had occurred.
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Murphy, then a 36-year-old movie megastar after making the jump from Saturday Night Live to the big screen ( Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places), wasn’t arrested or charged when he was stopped two miles after Seiuli (who was born a male but identified as a female and dressed like a woman) got in his car.
To set the scene, Murphy’s run-in with police was two years after the Hugh Grant incident (Divine Brown!) and six years after Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) was arrested in an adult theater, and the public was prime for a new sex scandal, especially one that could imply that the comedian was maybe - gasp - gay, because the late ’90s were all about outing stars. after he picked up a transsexual prostitute, Atisone Seiuli (aka Shalimar), in his Toyota Land Cruiser at a known homosexual prostitution spot along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. (Illustration: Danny Miller Photos: Getty Images/AP)Įddie Murphy was four years into his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy on 20 years ago - when police pulled him over at 4:45 a.m. The incident remains one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of all time. Eddie Murphy said he was just being a “Good Samaritan” when he was pulled over with a prostitute 20 years ago.
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