Didn’t he get caught with a transvestite ho a few years back? And didn’t he come up with a friggin ridiculous excuse about being a good samaritan and giving him/ her a ride home after seeing him/ her walking? On a sidfewalk? Like he gives everyone seen walking on a sidewalk a ride home?
Why is he never called on that shit?
Years after the Hugh Grant thing we are still reminded of it every time he gets interviewed/ profiled and his ho has made herself a c list celebrity out of the whole thing. People ask Grant about it all the time. It still hangs over him. Yet no one has ever uttered a word about the Murphy episode since like an hour after it happened.
Now, I have no problem with Murhpy or tranvestites or hos. But dammit I love seeing celebrities squirm. Its one of the little things that gets me through the day. Why am I being deprived of the pleasure of seeing this thing brought up again and again, or at least once in a while?
Here’s the story, from May, 1997. My guess on why the Hugh Grant incident has become part of his mystique, while the Murphy incident is forgotten, is that the Hugh Grant incident involved a female prostitute.
Grant still has a career at least; Murphy’s is questionable at best. Also, specifics of Grant’s misdeeds (blowjob, etc.) are known, while Murphy only got caught giving this prostitute a ride. If he was caught doing something explicit, I suspect he’d have become persona non grata.
Thank you, Spoiler. I was really starting to think I halluncinated the damn thing.
Kamandi, buddy, you’re missing my point over here. Yes it was 5 years ago, but what I’m saying is- I haven’t seen it mentioned in all those 5 years. The story just appeared, then quickly & quietly dissappeared. It could have- no, should have- been a big goddamn scandal. I’m still waiting for some interviewer to grill Murpy on his preposterous story, like that dude did to Pete Rose. Remember that shit? 'Ol Pete came out pretty good in that, because everyone knows he’s been hounded by that betting scandal every day since it happened. But Murphy gets to go make cartoons & kids movies and no one ever mentions the transvestite ho.
I remember the story about Rodney King (of L.A. Riots fame) being caught with a transvestite hooker. (He was caught, I believe, during a routine police sting. The police weren’t deliberately following him around, or anything.) If memory serves, King was caught getting inviting a transvestite hooker into his car, in a parking lot that was known to be popular for such activity (I believe it was an apartment parking lot—not that it makes any difference now). When King was discovered by the police, he tried to run them over with his car. But nothing really happened to him because of it. The beating thing was all too new, and I guess the police didn’t want the added publicity.
And this happened a few weeks (or months?) after he was beaten. Not too long after he was beaten, and definitely before the trial. I believe he also was caught speeding or drunk driving a few weeks after the beating. His lawyer tried to spin it all to be because King was so “distraught”. But come on—how many of us would pick up transvestite hookers after being beaten up?
His behavior really had nothing to do with the beating—those policemen deserved to fry for what they did to him. But because he was a vicitm of police brutality, it didn’t automatically make him a saint. He never was, and isn’t now. He’s had many brushes with the law, including: trying to run over his wife with his car. (That’s a pattern for him, apparently.) But, you never hear about this stuff in the news. The transvestite hooker thing was glossed over so quickly in the L.A. news, I could tell that the newscasters wanted to blurt it out and get it over with as soon as possible. And I’ve never heard it mentioned again. But I did see the story.
Hrmm … maybe I’m a bit odd, but I think you’ve got it a bit backwards.
It deserved to fall off the public radar, and so did Hugh Grant’s debacle. Why can’t we all worry about our own lives instead of what “celebrity” is doing what with whom? Ugh. Just because they star in a movie doesn’t mean we have the right or the need to know about every detail of their lives. Why’s it a “scandal” if Eddie Murphy is caught with a male transvestite prostitute, but it’s not a scandal if it’s the guy in the next town over?
People like sex. They have it. With people you may not want to have it with. Sometimes illegally. Deal.
[pathetic celebrity link]I used to patronize the Kinkos that Mr. Grant had his little rendezvous at![/pathetic celebrity link]
My theory is that Hugh “Four Weddings and a Funeral” Grant’s public image was vastly different from Eddie “Raw” Murphy’s - therefore making it more shocking and newsworthy. It also didn’t help that every fawning bimbo they interviewed after the incident said something to the effect of, “Hugh, I’d have done you for free! Call me!”
Synnove: Murphy has made himself a public figure thereby making the situation totaly distiguishable from the same thing happenning to the guy in the next town over. (By the way, whadda you know about that guy? e-mail me, kay?)
Nevertheless, I hereby acknowledge that my thirst for celebrity scandal and embarrassment is a personal failing and just a terrible, awful thing. Perhaps, in time, and with some hard work and self examination, I can overcome this sickness and be as good a person as you.
Till then, though, will somebody, Letterman, Regis, SOMEBODY, PLEASE bring the episode up in an interview.
