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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.
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Eddie's salary in the movie Double Take was $500,000.
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He attended the Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Eddie was rated #62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
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He suffered a heart attack during the taping of an episode of
Malcolm & Eddie, after a scene in which he did the salsa dance.
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Eddie frequently plays fast-talking loudmouth characters in most of his movies.
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His son, Eddie Griffin Jr., was born in 1986.
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Eddie was voted class clown three times in high school.
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He first got married when he was sixteen and then divorced a year later.
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Griffin stars in a commercial for Miller Lite as a Member of the Square Table creating Man-Laws. (2006)