Tracey Edmonds sure gets around. She was married to singer/producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds for years, and used his fame to climb up the Hollywood ladder. Tracey hasn’t done a thing herself, she’s just famous for who she dates.

After she and Babyface divorced, Tracey began dating Eddie Murphy – right after he dumped Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown, who was pregnant with his baby. Murphy and Edmonds then kinda sorta married in a on a private island off Bora Bora. It wasn’t official – they would have to do that back in the States. But there was a big hullabaloo, and they released a statement saying they weren’t going to legally marry, and then broke up.

If you were hoping the doe-eyed social climber was off the radar after the Murphy embarrassment… unfortunately that doesn’t appear to be the case. Edmonds claims she’s dating P. Diddy, and that he’s twice the man Murphy was. I bet Scary Spice would agree.

P Diddy’s latest girlfriend really knows how to hit a guy where it hurts. Tracey Edmonds has only been out with the Didster a few times but already rates him more highly than ex-husband Eddie Murphy.

Tracey, 40, who split from Murphy in January after only two weeks of marriage, claims Diddy is wittier than the comedian. That’s gotta hurt.

At party near Cannes she said: “Diddy is the funniest man I’ve ever met. I’m so lucky to find someone so soon after Eddie.

“It’s early days - we’ve only been on three or four dates - but he’s whisked me off my feet. I don’t know about wedding bells but he’s definitely the man for me.”

[From the Mirror]

The phrasing sure sound pretty contrived. But I love the idea that Diddy would ever bother to marry any woman. The man cheats on the women he’s cheating with. And then cheats on those women. I would bet that at any given moment, P Diddy is sleeping with seven different ladies, minimum. I have no idea what it would take for a woman to be the one he’d settle down with – but I’m absolutely positive that Tracey Edmonds doesn’t have it.

The pair have yet to be photographed together, even though they’re both in Cannes right now. Splash reports that they were seen shopping together at Gucci, but they don’t have any photos. I’m guessing that Diddy pulled Tracey into a coat closet a few times, and now she thinks they’re probably getting married. I bet she’s planning their faux island ceremony as we speak.

Header of Tracey Edmonds at the US Weekly Hot Hollywood Party 2008 at Beso on 04/17/08. Image thanks to WENN.Puffy is shown at the “Two Lovers” Cannes premiere on 5/19/08. Image thanks to PR Photos.

We’ve heard plenty of embarrassing stories about what went down in the bizarre pseudo-wedding ceremony between Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds. There have been several reports that their families bickered like crazy. The stories ranged from everything from their mothers going at each other to their kids bickering fiercely. According to the National Enquirer, Tracey and her family all thought they were better than the Murphy’s, and Tracey accused the entire family of being “too ghetto.”

“The families hated each other from the beginning,” a close family friend told The Enquirer. “There were actual screaming matches between relatives.” And it didn’t take long before both Eddie and Tracey were knee-deep in the fray. “Eddie told Tracey that she and her family should stop with the superior attitude, and she fired back criticizing his kin for being too ‘ghetto,’” continued the friend. “Eddie bit his lip thought the entire ceremony - he was steaming about the low blow.

[From the National Enquirer, print edition Feb. 4, 2008]

The Enquirer also says the real problem was Tracey’s money-grubbing family.

“The entire wedding was a fiasco, and it brought to light just how incompatible Tracey and Eddie really are.” Things went from bad to worse after the ceremony, when Tracey and her family members seemed more interested in striking business deals than the wedding, says an insider. “Her mother was pressuring Eddie to buy a new multimillion-dollar Malibu mansion with her as the Realtor - so she’d get the whopping commission. “Then her brother, who’s [sic] a rep for a watch company, put on a full-court press to get Eddie to serve as spokesman for his line.”

[From the National Enquirer, print edition Feb. 4, 2008]

Apparently the biggest problem was Tracey’s brother Michael. According to the anonymous insider, Michael brokered some deal with Jimmy Choo that required getting a bunch of pictures of the bridesmaids in Choo’s shoes, and Michael turned into a bit of a diva in his attempt to make sure the Choos got enough photos.

“Everyone in Tracey’s family, including Tracey, seemed to be trying to work a deal around the wedding and Eddie’s celebrity. And he saw greed instead of love,” said the insider, and eyewitness. “Tracey’s brother Michael was by far the worst of the group. He’d obviously cut a bunch of deals on the side. For instance, the bridesmaids were a walking advertisement for Jimmy Choo shoes. Michael was ordering the wedding photographer to make sure he got all the trademark clothing in the shots. And he was coaching the guests on how to pose in photos. Michael was saying: ‘The Choos! Remember to get the Jimmy Choos in the pictures or else we won’t get our free shopping spree!’” That was the final straw for Eddie.

[From the National Enquirer, print edition Feb. 4, 2008]

That sounds like a pretty contrived quote. “Remember to get the Jimmy Choos in the pictures or else we won’t get our free shopping spree!’” Who talks like that? I’m going to assume it’s paraphrased. Unless Michael was saying it in jest. Seriously, if that’s true it’s super tacky. The story is pretty biased towards Eddie Murphy, so it should all be taken with a gain of salt. Murphy has long been reported to be a domineering control freak, so I find it kind of hard to believe that he’s the innocent victim in all this. It sounds like he and Tracey were definitely a bad match. In the scheme of things, it sounds like they really narrowly avoided a big disaster. How much closer can you get than marrying the wrong person but not making it legal? According to E! News, Tracey’s been all over Sundance having a wonderful time. So it looks like everyone managed to escape unscathed.

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds broke up just two weeks after their non-legally binding wedding ceremony in Bora Bora. People Magazine quotes a source as saying that Eddie was chewing Tracey out at their wedding in front of guests and that it was embarrassing for everyone to witness.

Not only were Eddie and Tracey not getting along after their expensive non-nuptuals, their mothers were fighting too. Eddie and Tracey’s family are said to have “hated each other on sight,” and their mothers supposedly refused to sit next to each other. They were even seen yelling and swearing at each other, each thinking the other’s offspring wasn’t good enough for their family:

Eddie, 46, and Tracey, 40, invited only family members and a few close friends to celebrate their union, “but it was as if their families hated each other on sight…”

Eddie’s mother felt Tracey was a “gold digger,” says the friend - and Tracey’s mother felt Eddie wasn’t “good enough” for her daughter.

“The mothers didn’t even want to sit next to each other - even to eat - and it led to both sides of the family squaring off.”

According to the source, the situation escalated from an uneasy tension to outright confrontation that included “yelling and cussing.”

And this was even before Eddie and Tracey took their vows!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 28, 2008]

The Enquirer adds the gem that Eddie almost backed out of the wedding right before the ceremony and that he “pulled aside his best friend Johnny Gill in a panic and asked him if he was doing the right thing.” It looks like Eddie never really got over those cold feet, or maybe he listened to his momma. Eddie Murphy’s mom is said to live with him in his LA mansion and his breakup with the mother of his youngest child, Mel B, is partially attributed to her inability to get along with his live-in mother. It looks like Tracey dodged a bullet on that one. Maybe Eddie can ask his mommy to set him up next time so he’s sure to pick a woman she approves of.

Mike Walker’s column in the latest Enquirer states that guests at Murphy’s ceremony feel duped into thinking they were attending an actual wedding and asked the Norbit star to refund their vacation costs. Murphy said he would pay guests for their travel costs, which added up to over 100k.

Eddie and Tracey are shown on 12/11/06 at the Dreamgirls premiere, thanks to PRPhotos.

I saw this divorce coming, but I really thought it would take a few months, not just a few days. The miserable couple married on New Year’s Day in Bora Bora, where the ceremony was not legally binding, and planned on having a civil ceremony in the US to make the marriage official. Looks like those plans are on hold. Eddie’s rep released this statement:

“After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further.

While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”

TMZ

‘After much consideration.’ says Eddie and Tracy. What? You have been together just over a year, and married for only two weeks. That isn’t even trying. Unless you found a body in the basement, or another wife in the attic, how can you possibly get divorced after two weeks of marriage? And call the move considered?

Actually, the statement is slightly ambivalent. While reports say they are divorcing, are they actually separating, or just avoiding a civil ceremony in America that would make the marriage real? Perhaps they don’t feel the need for a legal ceremony, or no one is offering them money for a second lot of pictures. The statement says they want to remain friends, but doesn’t specify whether this is friends with benefits.

The couple didn’t live together before the wedding, so perhaps it’s just a simple case of not being able to live in the same house. Moving in together is a huge period of adjustment (that takes longer than two weeks, typically) that not all relationships survive. After all, she already knew about his previous use of transsexual prostitutes, and his failure to acknowledge his latest daughter. What was so awful it prompted a divorce?

Eddie Murphy’s New Year’s resolution seems to be a simple one - get married.

The Shrek star swapped vows with fiancée Tracey Edmonds Tuesday on a private island off Bora Bora, reps for the newlyweds confirmed to E! News.

The couple sealed the deal in “an intimate sunset ceremony” on the beach as 25 friends and family members looked on.

Edmonds was sheathed in a custom number by the tandem of Sugia Nazel and Jill Baracci, described in a statement as “off-white with a beaded French lace and silk tafetta ruffled train.”

E! News

Wow, Eddie Murphy still has 25 friends?

Still, the whole ‘not meeting my daughter’ thing now makes more sense. He’s clearly by far too busy with his wedding plans and moving his new wife into his home (they didn’t live together before the marriage) to see his latest progeny. Things are probably going to be busy for the newly married couple - he’s got five kids (plus Angel Iris, but she doesn’t count) and Tracy Edmonds has two children.

I’d love to predict that these two will be divorced in a few months, but what could possibly end this marriage? His wife has accepted the fact he’s fathered a child, tried to deny it, and then refuses to see her. What’s a little lyin’ and cheatin’ compared to that?

Congratulations to the happy couple. I hope that his new wife will prevent Eddie Murphy from making a sequel to Norbit.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds are shown at “Movie Rocks” on 12/2/07, thanks to PRPhotos. I love her dress but those implants are ridiculous.

Who knew Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds were so cute and old fashioned? The couple has proudly announced that they’re not moving in together until they get married… and what’s sweeter than that? I’m guessing it’s actually a ploy on Murphy’s part – it’s harder for Edmonds to leave him – which she’ll no doubt want to once she see that he runs his house like Captain Von Trapp – once they’re legally bound to one another. Not impossible, but definitely a bit more of a challenge. Murphy has been busy not acknowledging his daughter with Melanie Brown, and instead buying Edmonds an 8 carat engagement ring. Because why pay child support when you can have a giant, tacky piece of jewelry that takes two hands to lift? Ah, carpel tunnel, the gift that keeps on giving.

In a showbiz world of lightning-fast engagements, marriages and breakups, Tracey Edmonds and Eddie Murphy are taking it slow. “We haven’t moved in together yet. We’re waiting until we get married,” Edmonds told PEOPLE on Tuesday night at a launch party in Encino, Calif., for the new book Daughters of Men: Portraits of African American Women.

Edmonds, 40, and Murphy, 46, who got engaged in July, have been coy about a wedding date, and Edmonds reiterated on Tuesday, “I’ll just say it’s coming soon.” When they do move in together, it’ll be a busy house. Edmonds has two boys, and Murphy has five children with ex-wife Nicole Murphy and one with Spice Girl Melanie Brown. “I think it’s going to be fun for my kids, because it’s [been] just the three of us. If you come to my house, it’s very peaceful, very quiet, and I think it’s going to be fun for them to have other brothers and sisters to play with,” Edmonds says.

“The great thing is Eddie’s got beautiful, wonderful, smart, great children, and he’s a great father, so we’ve had a chance to all kind of spend a bit of time together.”

[From People]

Well to be fair, great fathers are known for refusing to even meet their new children. Tracey Edmonds makes me ill. She’s got that perpetual “deer caught in the headlights” expression and is so Pollyannaish. Considering how controlling and borderline tyrannical Eddie Murphy is supposed to be, they probably are actually a pretty good team. Now the whole “liking transvestites” thing might get in the way – but I’m sure Tracey can find a happy little excuse for that, too.

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds got engaged this past weekend. No articles are bothering to mention how he asked her, just that her ring is really, really big. Eight carats big. Why is old lady sized jewelry trendy again? I looked it up, and it turns out that’s about the size of a rib eye steak. Sexy.

“ET has learned that EDDIE MURPHY and his girlfriend of 10 months, TRACEY EDMONDS, are engaged!

According to OK! magazine, the 46-year-old ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Shrek the Third’ star proposed on July 25 with a “massive,” roughly 8-carat CARTIER yellow diamond engagement ring.

A friend of the couple says, “They’re very adorable together, very happy,” adding that they plan to tie the knot before the end of the year with a private wedding: “something low-key and romantic.””

[From Entertainment Tonight Online]

TMZ pointed out that Eddie Murphy’s first wedding to Nicole Mitchell in 1993 was on Forbes top ten most expensive celebrity weddings, clocking in at $1.5 million. They obviously have something a little more understated planned the second time around, which I think is classy. Ironic, since I wouldn’t call an 8 carat ring understated, but whatever.

Murphy and Edmonds are going to have quite the bustling house. Eddie has five kids from his twelve year marriage, and one new daughter with Scary Spice Melanie Brown. Tracey has two sons from her thirteen year marriage to Babyface. Eight kids are a lot of little feet running around the house. I’ve always heard that Eddie is a control freak. I kind of imagine that his kids live in his house kind of like the Von Trapp children in the “Sound of Music” - responding to whistles and marching around in concentric circles. And something tells me Tracey wouldn’t really object. She just has that passive doe-eyed expression too often.