This story was told by Nick de Semlyen, the author of the book: Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ’80s Changed Hollywood Forever.
Hollywood A-listers Sylvester Stallone and Eddie Murphy were once close friends, but then Murphy was rumoured to have slept with Stallone’s wife and that’s when the Rambo in Stallone emerged to almost kick Murphy’s backside.
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At the time, Stallone was married to Swedish actress Brigitte Nielsen.
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The two actors, Stallone and Murphy, were so close before falling out to the extent that they were both going to work on a third Godfather film together.
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It was going to be an epic cast, featuring the two friends alongside Al Pacino.
Everything was set and the three were ready to act in the film (that was eventually never made).
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Then, sadly, the road turned south as Murphy hired Nielsen to play the villain in his 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II.
Immediately, the closeness of Nielsen and Murphy, they spent a lot time together, sparked rumours of a hot new romance between the two.
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Murphy denied the allegations, but Stallone wasn’t convinced and he thus confronted Murphy with allegation, as if it were true.
The book narrates: "Brigitte Nielsen, it turned out, would be the source of a personal problem for Eddie Murphy.
Murphy claimed that he had hired Nielsen for a part in Beverly Hills Cop II only to do his friend Sylvester Stallone, Nielsen’s husband and the guy who had walked away from the original Beverly Hills Cop, a favour.
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But one day Murphy got a call from Stallone, who growled, “You fucked my wife!”
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“Down, brother!” Murphy retorted. “I didn’t fuck your wife!”
But the damage was done. Believing the rumours, Stallone stopped socialising with Murphy, even leaving one party early when he saw him arrive.”
These days the two A-Listers are friends again, but they never became as close as they once were.
