Eddie Murphy Reveals Oscar Winner’s Crazy Sex Proposition
“He was like, ‘How would you like to go back to my apartment with my wife and I and party?’” Murphy said.

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Eddie Murphy, 64, claimed that on his 21st birthday, he received a sexual proposition from a famous actor. “My 21st birthday party I had at Studio 54,’” Murphy said in the Netflix documentary, Being Eddie. “Yul Brynner, Ten Commandments, he was with his wife and he was like, ‘How would you like to go back to my apartment with my wife and I and party?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, I’m cool!’ And I realized as I got older, his wife was smiling. Did he want me to go f--k his wife?” Murphy added that the story would have had a better ending if he “went back to Yul Brynner’s and f--ked his wife, and he was watching me going, ‘Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!’“ Murphy said, referencing a quote from Brynner’s famous film The King and I. When Murphy turned 21 in April 1982, Brynner was not married. He divorced his third wife, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume, in 1982 and married his fourth wife, Kathy Lee, in 1983. Brynner died from lung cancer in 1985. Before his death, he was best known for playing King of Siam in the musical and film adaptation of The King and I—for which he won a Tony Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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