US comedian Charlie Murphy, the older brother of actor
Eddie Murphy, has sadly died of leukaemia at the age of 57.
Here's a chance to look back at his life and career.
He's known for his Prince and Rick James sketches
Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Story sketches on
Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show in the early 2000s
made him a star in the US.
In the Rick James skit, Murphy recounted how he got to
know the Super Freak singer before James punched him in
the face in Studio 54, leaving a ring imprint on his forehead.
In the Prince sketch, the pop legend challenged Charlie and
his friends to a basketball match after a party - then made
them all pancakes.
Murphy said both incidents really happened.
The brothers had a tricky start in life
Born and raised in New York, Eddie and Charlie's parents -
Lillian and Charles - split up when the boys were little.
Charles was murdered by a girlfriend just a few years later.
Lillian became ill and the brothers spent a short period in
foster care. She then remarried and her husband Vernon
Lynch brought Eddie and Charlie up.
Charlie was a troubled teen
He has talked about experimenting with drugs and having
"tons of fights" . He once found himself with a gun held to
his head in high school after threatening a classmate.
According to his 2009 book The Making of a Stand-Up Guy,
Murphy received three years probation for robbing a driver
at gunpoint, and in the final year of his probation was
arrested for larceny, loitering and other misdemeanours.
He was then sentenced to serve the rest of his probation -
10 months - in county jail.
He was once part of controversial group The Five
Percenters
The group, also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths,
was founded in 1963 by Clarence 13X when he broke from
the Nation Of Islam.
The group says black people are the original people of the
planet earth and that black people are the fathers and
mothers of civilisation.
Murphy explained in a Talk of the Nation interview in 2009
how he removed himself from their influence.
"I would question things. I had an analytical mind back then.
And if you tell me something and profess it to be the truth, I
don't just accept it... because you said it.
"And that's what I felt like when I was part of the
organisation, like, you know, I was being told things, but the
explanation beyond the explanation I was getting was not
good."
He had a varied career
His mother took him to all the armed services recruitment
offices on the day he was released from jail in 1978 and
they all turned him down due to his criminal record.
The Navy eventually agreed to take him after his mother
pleaded: "You gotta take my son or he's going to be killed
out here." He served for six years as a boiler technician.
Before he hit the big time, Charlie was also a screenwriter, a
hip-hop manager and the head of security for his little
brother - but was overprotective of Eddie became hot-
headed when dealing with hecklers.
He later went on to appear in films including Jungle Fever,
Night at the Museum and Lottery Ticket.
He didn't start stand-up until he was 42
He said: "When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years
old and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated
comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years
earlier.
"So, that took a lot of bravery. It's never been done before.
It's not a part of human reality. It's like, if Michael Jordan
all of a sudden had a big brother who plays basketball and
he's good, too. That does not compute for most people."
Having a famous brother ain't that bad
In a 2009 interview with Essence , Charlie spoke about his
relationship with Eddie.
"I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow," Charlie
said. "My life was what it was. I was always proud of my
brother. He helped me tremendously, but we're family so we
were never in his shadow

let me assumed that they want him IN and he refused then they killed him snd they want us to belief that he. died of leukaemia

pls sumariz i couldn't read.

So two brothers have gone just like that?Till date no one has been able to disclose the whereabout of Eddie Murphy, whether he is dead and buried or still alive.All they said was dat he had hit his head on an iceberg while skiing.