While practicing at a racetrack on Monday, March 26, 2007 to promote his upcoming film "Redline," Eddie crashed a rare 2007 Ferrari Enzo worth $1.5 million into a concrete barrier, the car was destroyed but luckily, Eddie was not injured. [edit]
Eddie's salary in the movie Double Take was $500,000. [edit]
He attended the Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. [edit]
Eddie was rated #62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. [edit]
He suffered a heart attack during the taping of an episode of Malcolm & Eddie, after a scene in which he did the salsa dance. [edit]
Eddie frequently plays fast-talking loudmouth characters in most of his movies. [edit]
His son, Eddie Griffin Jr., was born in 1986. [edit]
Eddie was voted class clown three times in high school. [edit]
He first got married when he was sixteen and then divorced a year later. [edit]
Griffin stars in a commercial for Miller Lite as a Member of the Square Table creating Man-Laws. (2006) [edit]