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Foxx didn’t have a penny to his name. There was no money readily available for Red Foxx’s funeral and headstone so Eddie Murphy stepped in / CBS News. “Redd Foxx, I had to physically pay for his funeral, and buy his headstone, and do all that stuff,” Murphy explained in the interview.
Oct 11, 1991 · Redd Foxx. Original Name. John Elroy Sanford. Birth. 9 Dec 1922. Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA. Death. 11 Oct 1991 (aged 68) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial. Palm Memorial Park. Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA Show Map. Plot. Devotion Section, Lawn Space 4091, 311 G.
Oct 12, 1991 · Oct. 12, 1991 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITERS. Comedian Redd Foxx, who became a television star playing an irascible, bawdy junkman in “Sanford and Son” and returned nearly two decades later in...
Jan 7, 2023 · Eddie Murphy Paid for Comedian Redd Foxx's Funeral & Headstone after He Died Penniless at 68. By Daniella Segell. Jan 07, 2023 09:55 A.M. Actor and comedian Redd Foxx, who would have turned 100 on December 9, 2022, reached Hollywood stardom. Yet by his sixties, he was penniless.
He declared bankruptcy and later when he died from a heart attack, his widow didn't know how to deal with the expenses. Redd s old friend and co-star from "Harlem Nights" Eddie Murphy paid for the whole service and made Foxx's funeral an event full of stars that wanted to say goodbye to one of the greatest comedians.
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Due to Foxx's financial woes (the IRS seized and auctioned off his assets in 1989), his widow couldn't pay for his funeral, so Eddie Murphy footed the bill, giving Foxx a lavish, star-studded send-off.
But with a series of unfortunate events befalling him, Eddie Murphy had to pay for his funeral. “Redd Foxx, I had to physically pay for his funeral, and buy his headstone, and do all that stuff.” What do you think?
